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When the University Band exhibits its new classical reportoirs tomorrow evening in Sanders Theatre, it will mark a turning point in a long musical career. Prokofieff and Shostakovitch, Milhand and Coates, are a far cry from gridfron "compabs" and fight cheers, but "the best in the business" has transformed a "Saturday afternoon miracle" into a Sanders concert...
...Shostakovitch, Prokofieff, Gould and Gershwin will join Leroy Anderson '29 and Sousa in the new band repertoire, the band management announced this week, but popular request has forced the addition of selections from the "Ivy League Album...
Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francaise," written to commemorate the liberation of France by the underground and the Allied armies, will feature the program, and a short dance by Shostakovitch, Prokofieff's Opus 99 "March," and F. W. Meacham's well-known "American patrol" complete the band's emergence as a primarily musical group...
Tomorrow afternoon the musicians will travel 20 miles by bus and car to the Tedesco Country Club at Swampscott to present a concert with numbers ranging from Beethoven's Second Symphony to a homoruos Shostakovitch polka...
...anguished soul protesting against the barreness of the mechanized planned economy," was what Stalin's censors saw in the purged Ninth Symphony of Shostakovitch, he charged...