Music Festival

Dartmouth's third annual Festival of Music, held April 29 to May 1, commemorated the sesquicentennial of the births of Chopin and Schumann and had as its central theme "The Lyric Spirit in Music." Orchestra, band, chamber and choral concerts, with guest musicians and soloists, were included in the three-day program attended by large and enthusiastic audiences and financed anonymously by an alumnus of the College.

Percy Grainger, the noted American composer and pianist, gave a talk on the influence of folksong on art music, and also led the Dartmouth Band in one of his own compositions. The other festival talk was given by composer Milton Babbitt of Princeton, whose topic was electronic music. Prof. James A. Sykes, chairman of Dartmouth's Music Department, was the festival chairman.

Percy Grainger {left) with Prof. DonaldW. Wendlandt, director of the Dartmouth College Band, after the openingconcert in which he was guest conductorfor one of his own compositions.

Prof. James A. Sykes, chairman of theMusic Festival, directing the Handel Society Orchestra and Chorus in "Manfred,"Byron's dramatic poem for which Schumann wrote the incidental music.

Martin Gabel, the American actor who recently appeared on Broadway as StephenDouglas in "The Rivalry," took the partof Manfred in the reading of Byron'sdramatic poem with incidental music.

Soprano Bethany Beardslee was soloist in Dallapiccola and GodfreyWinharn compositions played by the Phoenix String Quartet and,here, members from the Quartet and the Festival Wind Quintet.

Mario di Bonaventura, who is a member of theDartmouth music faculty for the spring term,conducts the Handel Society Orchestra in thefestival's first evening concert. Works of Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Stravinskywere played.

Mr. di Bonaventura and his brother, Anthony diBonaventura, concert pianist, share a bow at the endof the Mozart piano concerto.

Members of the Mount Holyoke College Glee Club andthe Dartmouth Glee Club shown at the Sunday afternoonconcert in which they sang a Beethoven choral fantasy.