Glee Club May Sing Next Fall On NBC Radio

The Harvard-Radcliffe Glee Club will probably sing next year over the coast-to-coast radio network of the National Broadcasting Company.

Officials of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who Tuesday gave N.B.C. the right to broadcast weekly concerts from Symphony Hall for the 1954-55 season, want the Glee Club to continue its 30-year tradition of singing at these programs.

Possibilities that the N.B.C. broadcasts will have commercial sponsorship may prevent the club from participating, however, because the Corporation has ruled that no student group may appear on a sponsored radio or television program. N.B.C. is currently seeking a sponsor for the concerts, but does not have one yet.

Will Appear at Least Once

Leaders of the Glee Club will meet today with Thomas D. Perry, Jr., assistant manager of the Symphony, to discuss the Corporation ruling as an obstacle to the club's singing for a national audience.

Perry said yesterday, however, that the choral group is definitely invited to participate in at least one of next year's Saturday evening concerts. So far this season the club has sung in three of these concerts and has appeared with the Symphony on many other occasions.

The undergraduate singing organization is "one of the fine choruses in this country and would enhance any program it's connected with," Perry stated.

Boston Symphony concerts on the radio next year will replace those of the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, which will be broken up because of the recent retirement of its conductor, Arturo Toscanini.