Bulletin Vol. 8 No. 8 Mar 1972

Western Music, Music Education, Church Music. A s a choice o f t wo instruments, the students n o w have the whole range o f Western orchestral instruments, piano, organ and voice to choose f r om. The curriculum was very thoroughly revised in 1970, and further revised a year later so as to make it more comprehensive, and to fit it more precisely to the needs o f Ho ng K o ng and the needs o f the k i nd o f students entering the Department. For the first time this year Music is offered as one of the subjects in the University's Matriculation Examination, and some 50 candidates have applie d to take this examination. In view o f the musical situation in the schools o f Ho ng K o ng at the mome n t, this is a surprisingly large number, and shows that the Department is beginning to have an effec t on the c ommu n i t y. A i m s The aims o f the Music Department are to train teachers for the schools in Ho n g Kong, to qualify graduates o f the Department for further studies abroad in their specialised field s and to provide personnel for purposeful music direction and leadership in Ho ng Kong. The Department n ow encourages the teaching o f music as mu ch as possible by means o f the music itself, wherever possible through actual performance, s o that it is always seen to be a vital and living activity, the object being to produce n ot merely performers or academics ， b ut musicians whose thinking reflects an d is i n f o rmed by a wide knowledge o f the various inter-related disciplines wh i ch make up the field o f music. The Department also looks on itself as a vital part of the constant battle against materialisti c views and thinking i n Ho ng Ko n g, and considers it a prime d u ty to combat these attitudes in every wa y possible to thinking and performing musicians. :起左，奏演中會週院學基崇在團樂室基崇 生先偉大紀及生先霖德麥，學同松伯鄭，生先愼禮韓 Members of the Chung Chi Ensemble playing at the College Assembly, from left: Mr. Nigel H. Harrison, Mr. Cheng Pak- chung, Mr. Charles S. Medlam and Mr. David W. Gwilt N e w S t a f f T o u p h o ld these aims, the Musi c Department has recently recruited several new teachers to add to its team o f one senior lecturer, t wo lecturers and ten part-time teachers. Mr. Nigel H. Harrison, Assistant Lecturer Mr. Nigel H. Harrison , a n a t i ve Y o r k s h i r e m a n, graduated in Music f r om the University o f D u r h am in 1970, where his main fields o f stud y were Western musical history, analysis and performance. He s t u d i e d t h e v i o l i n w i t h a m e m b e r o f t h e N o r t h e r n Sinfonia Orchestra, and t o ok part in master-classes w i t h the Music G r o up o f L o n d o n. For t wo years, he was leader o f the University Orchestra and the University Chamber Orchestra, and for a time was conductor o f the Opera Group. F r om 1970 to 1971 he studied at the Royal Academy o f Music in L o n d o n, wher e his professor of the violin was Clarence Myerscough; he also studied chamber music and orchestral playing there, and was at that time a member of the L o n d on Schubert Orchestra. He joined the staff of Chung Chi College in August 1971. Mr. Charles S. Medlam, Tutor Mr. Charles S. Medlam was b o rn in Trinidad in 1949 ， but lived in L o n d on f r o m 1954 u n t il moving to Ho ng K o n g this year. He t o ok up serious music and the cello at the age o f 17 and studied at the International 生先愼禮韓 Mr. Nigel H. Harrison -3-