Ivy League Colleges Form Musical Council

ANEW step in creating closer ties between the colleges of the Ivy League was taken in late September with the formation of the Ivy League Musical Activities Council. Its first president is Prof. Paul R. Zeller, director of the Dartmouth Glee Club.

Using as its foundation the Ivy League glee clubs and other musical groups, the Council hopes by this united effort to establish a musical tradition among Ivy League alumni and students as strong and reputable as those in other fields.

As a rallying point, the ILMAC will sponsor an annual joint concert in New York City, featuring three of the eight clubs each year. The first concert has been scheduled for Friday, December 2, in Carnegie Hall. Participants will be the glee clubs of Columbia, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania. Tickets for the concert are currently available through the New York City alumni clubs of all eight colleges.

Plans of the new musical council are being further developed in several ways. It is hoped that an annual Ivy League Musical Scholarship may soon be established; that periodic grants can be made for the composition of new music for men's voices; and that eventually the Council will be able to underwrite an annual tour by one of the member clubs to other countries and to remote alumni strongholds. Already in effect is a system of closer coordination between members in the scheduling and programming of their individual winter and spring tours.

In addition to Professor Zeller as president, officers of the ILMAC are R. Selden Brewer of Cornell, secretary, and Edward J. Malloy of Columbia, treasurer. Both college and alumni representatives of all eight Ivy League institutions are on the Council, and other Dartmouth members are Warner Bentley, graduate manager of COSO, and Herbert A. Dingwall '16 of New York.

Planning their joint Ivy League concert in New York, December 2, are the three glee club directors (l to r): Robert S. Godsall, Pennsylvania; Paul R. Zeller, Dartmouth; and J. Bailey Harvey, Columbia.