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...novel blue sky, the Glee Club ducked out from Sever 11 last night to line Widener's steps for the first of its two Yard Concerts. Taking their cur from the 7 o'clock chapel bell, the songsters led off with the Harvard Hymn, strayed from there through Virgil Thomson and Handel, and then chorused home with a brace of football songs, abetted--if not too precisely-- by the audience...
...succeeding speeches, Olga Samaroff, musical educator, critic, and pianist, looked at criticism from the point of view of the performer, while Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald-Tribune's critic, did "The Art of Judging Music...
Miss Samaroff suggested means by which musical life in America could be decentralized and the performer enabled to depend less on the view of New York critics, while Thomson analyzed the processes by which a critic works...
Featuring today's half of the symposium are talks by Virgil Thomson and Olga Samaroff at 10:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre and a cheral concert at 6:30 o'clock this evening in Memorial Church...
About 150 seats also are left for each of the five speaking sessions and discussions, which will include speeches by E. M. Forster, British critic and author, Virgil Thomson '22, the New York Herald Tribune's critic-composer, and Paul H. Lang, author, and professor of music at Columbia...