Schreiner University’s Center for Innovative Learning will present the second Robert P. Hallman Chautauqua Lecture of the 2008-09 academic year on Monday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Cailloux Campus Activity Center Theater.

Searle Crate, computer lab manager at Schreiner, will speak on “Physics and Music as conjoined Twins: A Joy to Behold.” Crate has a bachelor’s degree in physics; a master’s in education and has been a teacher for more than 20 years. He plays trumpet and baroque recorder, sings and was a church choir director.

“Come share my joy in the overlap between physics (my formal training) and music (my life-long avocation), as I reveal the physical principles behind vibrations and musical sound,” Crate said. “Expect a 15 foot long ‘guitar string’, a bugle made from a garden hose, a jig on the tin whistle, a flute reverberating inside the Taj Mahal, throat singing as practiced in Tuva, a Romanian performing on the scale of a giant carp, familiar sounds played backwards, and other amazing stuff.”

All Chautauqua events are free and open to the public, and are videotaped for later broadcast on Channel 2 Kerrville, a public service program funded in part by a grant from Humanities Texas. For more information, contact Martha York at the Schreiner Center for Innovative Learning, 830-792-7352 or mlyork@schreiner.edu.