Orchestra, Band Go On Road Tours Next Month

Road tours, the most extensive since the war, are on the Spring dockets of both the Band and the Orchestra, Frank W. Hopkins '52, treasurer of the Band, and Norman J. Keesal '50, Orchestra manager, announced last night.

Three Southern women's schools will play host to 46 members of the Orchestra on the seven day jaunt which was a prewar tradition. The musicians will leave April 1, spend a night apiece in New York and Washington, and then proceed to Langwood College in Farmville, Virginia, for their first concert.

The next stop is Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. Here, as in Longwood, a choir will accompany the Orchestra. The tour winds up on April 5, at Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Virginia.

Band Goes West

One hundred Band members leave April 28 on a two day trip to give public concerts in Worcester and Albany, New York. The Harvard Clubs of the respective cities are sponsoring the trip.

While the main purpose of the Band's journey is to build prestige for the outfit, the Band will be paid for the concerts, Hopkins reports.

The Orchestra's road program includes several modern pieces. For the first time in the Orchestra's history Malcolm H. Holmes '28, will lead the ensemble in a work by Norton Professor of Poetry Paul Hindemith, "5 Pieces for Strings."

The host schools will display their Southern hospitality by entertaining the musicians at dances and other social events.

Neither the Band nor the Orchestra are going at full strength, due to the expense and the time way from studies involved.