BAND PLANS SERIES OF CONCERTS AND SPRING TRIP

The present year bids fair to be the most successful the University Band has had. Its numerous engagements and its reputation of being the best collegiate band in the United States, as well as one of the best organizations of its kind in the East, give lasting proof of what can be done with such an organization in a university of this size.

The Band is just entering upon the busiest part of its season. Previous to the mid-year period it had played forty-three public engagements, including a number of local concerts and a trip to Yale with the football team.

On the twenty-sixth of this month the Band will play at the Triangular Meet at Mechanics Hall; on March 3 it will play at Symphony Hall; and on the eleventh there will be a Faculty Concert and Band Dance at the Union. On March 17 the Band will play its only public concert this year in Cambridge, at Sanders Theatre, and on March 18 it will play at the Haverhill High School; on March 28 for the Hospital Association at Framingham; and on April 2 Pop concert in the Town Hall at Brookline. During April, concerts will be played at Natick, and possibly at Concord and Hanover, New Hampshire. From April 18 to 25, the Band takes its annual spring tour, during which it will play at Framingham, Worcester, Springfield, Albany and New York. Among other local concerts will be three Yard Concerts, from 7.30 to 8.30, Thursday evenings, May 12, 19 and 26.

Following in the steps of the Glee Club, the Band is playing only the very best music available for such an organization. Among the very important numbers are Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite; Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony, Second Movement; and Dvorak's Large from the New World Symphony.

The Band now has sixty-eight active graduate and undergraduate members, and is so arranged that in case of necessity two bands can be quickly organized. An interesting and rather novel feature of the Band is the inclusion of a number of stringed instrument players in addition to the customary brass and woodwind section. The Band has eight violinists, three 'cellists, and two string basses. This section aids very materially in concert work by softening and rounding out the brass section.

The Band, like all other undergraduate organizations, is entirely self-supporting; the College, however, has lent to it a number of instruments which were purchased during the War. Finances for travelling, librarian, music, and assisting professionals' expenses are met by the receipts from concerts.