Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...
Final arrangements have also been made with the Glee Club for the concert on Widener steps Friday evening...
...committee, in recording its disapproval of a University subsidy, suggested that an advertising campaign "could be handled by a good advertising agency" to raise money for the trips. It further authorized the Bend to present a concert in the Yard in May, at which a table might be set up to accept contributions...
Borgatti leveled a third attack against University policy in regards to a proposed South American trip, which, he said, had been crippled despite assurances from State Department officials that the trip could easily meet expenses from concert receipts. Watson was not satisfied and demanded a backer be found to put up the needed...
When the Pepsi-Cola Company expressed interest, Watson again disapproved unless all advertising was limited to the backs of concert tickets and programs, and no slogan such as "The Harvard Band Drinks Pepsi-Cola" be used