Communication

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

May I use your columns in calling attention to the rare privilege offered to all musical students in the University next Monday evening, the 11th, when M. Vincent D'Indy, the eminent French composer, is to lecture in the Fogg Art Museum upon "Cesar Frank, the man, the artist, and his influence upon modern French composers." For the last twenty years or more Frank's genius has been gaining recognition and now he is universally acknowledged to be one of the few truly great composers in recent years. M. D'Indy is one of his most distinguished pupils, and a composer himself of serious purpose and high attainment,--the leader in fact of a band of French composers who are breaking away from the dominion of the Theatre, which has always been so potent in French music, and are writing symphonies, quartets, etc., of great merit.

To hear M. D'Indy speak of so important a composer as Frank, is an opportunity not to be missed by any student desirous of keeping in touch with the tendencies of the times. WALTER SPALDING.