Music Festival

A FESTIVAL of 18th Century music, featuring a three-day program of concerts, seminars and discussions focused on the "birth of classicism," will be held at the College, April 25 to 27. The festival events include a lecture tracing the high classical style of Mozart and Haydn to its origins, a seminar dealing with 18th Century classical and 20th Century neo-classical forms, and a concert series of choral, chamber and chamber orchestra music. The tone of the festival will be set by pianist Rudolf Firkusny in a preliminary presentation, April 24, of music from the "Age of Reason."

Various Dartmouth musical organizations, the Colby Junior College Choir, and professional musicians from Boston, New York and the Dartmouth faculty will participate in the program. Several wellknown musical personalities, among them Paul Henry Lang, music critic for the New York Herald Tribune, conductor David Saidenberg, and Canadian-American composer Charles Jones, are expected to attend.

An anonymous alumnus, who plans to subsidize similar festivals in 1959 and 1960, generously donated the funds which have initiated plans for the festival. Dartmouth students, college and secondary-school music teachers, and music lovers from the eastern United States will be welcomed to the festival. Tickets are free but should be obtained in advance by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Secretary of the Music Department.