Good News

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It ought to be good news to the musical public in Boston and in Harvard University that the Harvard Glee Club is planning a season in which the new standards which have been set up for college singing in Cambridge will be so clearly illustrated. Boston has always owed much to Harvard for its best music. The Harvard Musical Association, founded by Harvard men who wanted to preserve the musical interests which the Pierian Sodality had awakened in them, established more than fifty years ago the orchestral concerts to which, in a natural sequence, the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra succeeded in 1881. These influences, now for many decades, have been the strongholds of good music in Boston.

If the floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will not let themselves miss these concerts. M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE.