Singers, Poets, Band Perform This Week

Two singers, two poets, and the Summer Band will perform during the week. Folksingers Joan Baez and Oscar Brand will present the first event, a concert at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre open to the public without charge.

Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Firman Houghton and Ruth Whitman, editors of Audience, will read from their poetry in the Lamont Forum Room.

Houghton has published poetry and prose in Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review and other magazines. This winter a play by Mr. Houghton will be produced at the Loeb Drama Center; his work is to appear in an anthology published by Random House this fall. Miss Whitman is the Editor of the Wertheim Committee, which publishes books about Labor relations. Her poetry has appeared widely and has been recorded in part for the Harvard Vocarium Library.

Recently both poets collaborated on translations of Quasimodo, the recent Nobel Prize winner. The free reading will be preceded by recorded classical music and followed by informal discussions with the writers John Holmes, professor of English at Tufts University and Director of the Poetry Workshop, will introduce the poets.

The Summer Band will give a concert of works for symphonic band on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Under the direction of Bernard A. Wiseblatt '57, the band will play Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The concert is free and open to the public.

The last dance of the summer takes place tomorrow. Sponsored by and for the dormitories of Lowell. Thayer, and Weld and open to commuters, it will be held in the Union from 8:30 p.m. to midnight