Sanders Symphony

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Whereas I do not happen to be in possession of the facts concerning the original Higginson grant for the Sanders concerts and other factors which may have motivated the University in its decision to suspend the sale of rush seats to students, I feel that this move was of the worst sort of autocratic bureaucracy.

I cannot concur with the University that the rehearsal series is an adequate substitute for the Sanders concerts. As an addition to the pre-existing status quo it would be find and musically extremely interesting. As a substitution it is altogether inadequate. It is more expensive per concert, comprises one fewer concert than otherwise, is infinitely more inconvenient to reach for the average Harvard student and serves less than four percent of the total student body. This in addition to many reasons of a technical musical nature.

As one who believes that music is the highest form of human expression I would propose that not only should the sale of rush seats be resumed in time for the first concert on November 7 in accordance with previous tradition, but also that the entire balcony of Sanders Theatre be available to the student body at a price of less than one dollar per seat.

This, I believe, would be in keeping with the liberal arts tradition of a great university. H. Erich Neinemann '53