Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1943, Síða 72

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records, intended to give a picture of Danish music throughout
the ages. In the selection of this music it has endeavoured to
emphasize those qualities which give to Danish music its specific
national character. The first series produced has a pronouncedly
retrospective character, and comprises historically significant
Danish compositions from the earliest times. The orchestra of
the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, the orchestra of the Danish
Broadcasting Service, the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir, and the Tivoli
Orchestra have assisted in the recording. The organization of the
work is in the hands of a special committee of experts.
The information material described above, and also to some
extent the technical equipment, form the principal basis for the
training of the Society’s agents, and this training could not, there-
fore, begin till the material and equipment had been procured.
The first three years of the existence of the Society have conse-
quently been devoted to the acquisition of material and equip-
ment, but this work is now nearing completion.
The society is thus now in a position to begin to prepare its
agents for their future work. A brief account of the way in which
it is proposed to set about this task may not be out of place.
The training of the Society’s agents takes place in the Uni-
versity of Copenhagen, and is undertaken in part by the Uni-
versity’s own staff. It will cover one or two terms of 4 months
each. It comprises courses in the practical teaching of Danish,
Danish history, and Danish civics; furthermore a study of the
most important branches of Danish economic life, and, in con-
nection with the courses, the study of the above-mentioned text-
books published by the Society, together with its work on Danish
Civilization in 1940. The course also comprises Danish art,
architecture, music, literature, etc. Instruction will also be given
in modern international relations, and, finally, in the technique
of the information work which the candidate is subsequently to
take up. As a finishing touch to this training, the future agents
will take part in a study tour round Denmark, in the course of
which they will get an opportunity of acquiring a first-hand
knowledge of the Danish community, its organization, institu-
tions, and machinery of production. In addition to receiving the
above instruction, which is the same for all the agents, each agent
must acquire by self-study a thorough knowledge of the country
to which he is to be sent. He must have a command of its language
and be conversant with its general culture, and he must have a