SECOND CONCERT OF THE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA

The Community Orchestra under the direction of Professor Maurice F. Longhurst of the Department of Music assisted by Mrs. Henry T. Moore, contralto soloist, and eight members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complete the instrumentation, offered the public its second symphony program of the present academic year at Webster Hall on Sundayevening, April 12. The program included the following numbers by the Orchestra: Beethoven's Overture to Egmont, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, The Young Prince and the Young Princess from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade, and Tschaikowsky's Marche Slave. Mrs. Moore sang Schubert's Der Erlkonig and My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice by Saint-Saens to the accompaniment of the full Orchestra.

This is the fifth symphony program offered the public by this orchestra since it began weekly rehearsals under Professor Longhurst's direction in January, 1923. During this period the size of the orchestra has increased from about forty to about eighty members and includes besides students, faculty and townspeople of Hanover some fifteen or twenty representatives from Lebanon, White River Junction, Hartford, Norwich and Thetford—Lebanon furnishing about half those from outside the village of Hanover.

To complete the instrumentation at its public performances the Orchestra has always had the assistance of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the number varying from five to eight.

Members of the Orchestra receive no financial returns for their services. Each Sunday evening they meet to study some of the great classics in music and as opportunity offers results of these studies are presented to the public. This has been made possible by the generosity of the College authorities in allowing the use of its physical plant, musical instruments and library and by contributions from private individuals and business houses in the communities represented in the membership of the Orchestra. Outside the expenses for rental of hall and printing connected with giving public performances the chief items of expense of the Orchestra are for transportation of members from outside Hanover, musical library, and the expense for obtaining the services of professional musicians from Boston.

Besides its public symphony programs the Orchestra assisted the Community Chorus, also under Professor Longhurst's direction, in its public presentation of Mendelssohn's Elijah in May, 1924, and will again assist this Chorus in its presentation of Sullivan's Golden Legend before the close of the present academic year.