GLEE CLUB TO GIVE CONCERT IN BOSTON

Thursday evening, at 8.15 o'clock the Harvard Glee Club will give a concert in Symphony Hall, assisted by the Radcliffe Choral Society and 70 members of the Boston Symphony orchestra.

This concert is the first held in accordance with the recent change in the policies of the Glee Club. It is offered in place of the usual Symphony Hall series. Officials of the Glee Club announced that this innovation has been inaugurated as a step toward the enlarging of the scope of the repertoire of the organization. Feeling that the more important choral works have been composed for mixed voices, the leaders believe that the accomplishment of the Glee Club will be more satisfying and natural, though the number of Symphony Hall appearances has been decreased. The club will present its usual local concerts and will make several short trips. A few of the programs will be sung in conjunction with women's choruses, but the majority will be given by the Glee Club alone.

To Introduce Numbers New to Boston

The program of the Symphony Hall concert introduces two numbers as yet publicly unheard in Boston. A group of three songs by Handel is being performed with orchestra for the first time in the United States. "The Hymn of Jesus", by Gustav Holst, is being executed in public for the first time in Boston. This latter number was sung in Symphony Hall last May during the Radcliffe semi-centennial program, which was not open to the public.

A special chorus of 50 will sing six "Liebeslieder' and "Neuesliebeslieder" by Brahms. The program also includes "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs" composed by R. Vaughan Williams, and concludes with "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach.

In going to Northampton on January 4, the Glee Club will make its first trip of the season. A concert will be given there in conjunction with the Smith College Glee Club.