Opera in the Sixth Grade? An Interview

The Metropolitan Opera Guild's Director of Educational Activities, Vernon Westmoreland, questions Helen Plinkiewisch, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education at Hofstra College and Music Con- sultant of Stewart School, Garden City, Long Island.

The Music Educators National Conference has enjoyed a long association with the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Over a period of years, at MENC Division meetings, the Metropolitan Opera Guild has sponsored some unusually fine sessions in which have participated some outstanding authorities in the field of opera. A meeting was planned by the Guild at the 1960 biennial convention of MENC in Atlantic City, and plans are projected for a special session in opera at the forthcoming meeting of the MENC Eastern Division to be held in Washington, D.C.