Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 4 Jan–Feb 1970

" Tha t the Boards of Studies should meet once every two months during term time according to a schedule to be drawn up by each individual Board for the whole year, with a total of five regular meetings per year, additional meetings being subject to the call of the Chairman of the Board; That such regular meetings should be held by rotation in the three Colleges, for which purpose the Colleges would make due adjustments to the teaching schedules; and That the agenda of all regular meetings of the Boards of Studies should include a standing item on the Development of Teaching and Research." V i c e - Ch a n c e l l or as D i r e c t or o f L I B A Dr. Choh -Mi ng L i , Vice-Chancellor of the University, has assumed concurrently the Directorship of the University's Lingnan Institute of Business Administration, wit h effect f r om 1st February, 1970. D r . Sutu Hsin, Senior Lecturer in Business Management at United College, serves concurrently as Associate Director of the Institute. Under the new directorship, the current programme of the Institute is under review, and advisers will be invited f r om abroad to assist in planning a new programme. For this purpose Dr. Choh -Mi ng L i recently made two trips with members of the Advisory Board of L I B A . On 16th January, 1970, he flew to Man i la with the Hon. S.S. Gordon and Dr . the Hon. P.Y. Tang to visit the Asian Institute of Management. O n 21st January, 1970, Dr. L i flew to Tokyo with D r. the Hon. P.Y. Tang to visit the Institute of International Studies and Management Training . The Institute was established in 1966 with funds supplied primaril y by the Trustees of the Lingnan University as their contribution to the development of Hong Kong. Since its inauguration L I B A has had an Advisory Board to enable it to establish and maintain close contacts with the local business and industrial communities and w i th overseas academics in business administration. The Advisory Board is giving ful l support to the operation of the Institute and plays an important role in the review of the programme. Mu s i c S ymp o s i um a nd Ch i nese Conce r t Music Symposium I "Music Symposium I " , the first of a series of symposia organized by the Music Department of Chung Ch i College, was held at the City Hall in the months of January and February. Guest speakers and performers and members of the Department came together for an examination of "International Musics". Members of the public were invited to partake in the novel presentation of music. Seven lectures were given on the following themes: " The Music of Thailand" Dr. Dav i d Morton, Associate Professor of Music, University of California, Los Angeles 14th January, 1970 "British Contemporary Music: Benjamin Britten" M r . Edwar d S.N. Ho, Lecturer and Chairman of the Department of Music, Chung Chi 16th January, 197 0 "British Contemporary Music: The Younger Generation" M r . Edward S.N. Ho 21st January, 1970 "Aspects o f Asian Music: Introductions to the Musics of China, Japan, Indonesia and Ba l i" Dr. Dale A . Craig, Lecturer in Music, Chung Chi College 23rd & 28th January, 1970, 4th & 18th February, 197 0 The talks were illustrated with recordings, films and live performances by local musicians, and discussion of lecture topics followed. Other symposia, also on some important aspect of music of general interest, are now being planned. Concert of Contemporary Chinese Music A Concert of Contemporary Chinese Music fo r " E r - H u " and "Cheng", featuring M r . Tung Yung- Shen and M r . Tao Chu-Sheng, leading musicians f r om Taiwan, was presented by the Music Department of Chung Chi College at the City Ha ll on 1st February, 1970. The programme included six "er-hu" (violin) solos by M r . Tung, four "cheng" (psaltery) solos by M r . Tao, and four duets by the two musicians. They were accompanied at the piano by D r. Dale A , Craig of Chung Chi College. This was the first major concert presented to the public by the Music Department of Chung Chi College, whic h plans to produce and sponsor future concerts in order to introduce more overseas artists to Hong Kong to further Hong Kong's concert life. — 1 2 —