Band Plans Shift To Classical Gems In April Concert

Throwing off the traditional shackles of college songs and football marches which have made up the fare of the University Band for the last 20 years, "the best in the business" will present a concert of classical and semi-classical music at Sanders Theatre on April 10.

Shostakovitch, Prokofieff, Gould and Gershwin will join Leroy Anderson '29 and Sousa in the new band repertoire, the band management announced this week, but popular request has forced the addition of selections from the "Ivy League Album."

"Suite Francaise" to be Played

Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francaise," written to commemorate the liberation of France by the underground and the Allied armies, will feature the program, and a short dance by Shostakovitch, Prokofieff's Opus 99 "March," and F. W. Meacham's well-known "American patrol" complete the band's emergence as a primarily musical group.

Malcolm H. Holmes '28, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, and band director who instigated the broadening of the group's repertoire, will conduct the post-vacation concert.

Tickets for the performance are now on sale at the Coop and Paine Music Building, and the band management has urged concert-goers to obtain tickets early in order to be assured of choice seats.