POPS CONCERT SERIES TO COMMENCE ON MAY 2

The forty-second annual season of Pops concerts, given in Symphony Hall will be presented this year between May 2 and July 2, it was announced yesterday. Between these dates concerts will be given every week night, and every other Sunday. Throughout the season, concerts will be played by 80 members of the Boston Symphony Ochestra, with Alfredo Casella conducting.

Italian by birth, international in reputation, Mr. Casella has appeared in practically every musical center of the world in all of his multiple roles. His first visit to the United States during the season 1921-22 was perhaps the outstanding musical event of the year. The Philadelphia Orchestra first presented him as a soloist and conductor in his "Pagine di Guerra." With the Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cincinnati Orchestras he conducted his "Rhapsody Italia" and also appeared as pianist. His debut recital in New York aroused such interest that two others were hastily arranged, making three recitals within one month.

During 1922-23 Mr. Casella's triumphs as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and conductor, continued. He played the Mozart D Minor Concerto with the Boston Symphony and his own arrangement of Albeniz's "Spanish Rhapsody" with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Then for a time he absented himself from the American musical scene, devoting all of his energies to writing and composing.

Harvard night at this year's Pops will be on May 16 when the University Glee Club will sing and other numbers of especial Harvard interests will be presented. This evening devoted to Harvard will be preceded by a Radcliffe night on May 9.