Gramophone Society

Many students still seem unaware of the privileges which are theirs respecting the Carnegie gramophone. The Gramophone Committee welcomes request programmes, which should be written in the note book provided for the purpose opposite the librarian's desk. Programmes may be played during the lunch hour or in the evenings.

A number of full-time students have been using their lunch-hours to good purpose in the music-room. Luxury it is to relax in the sunny music room after a satisfying lunch in the caf., and to listen to Toscanni and Beecham, Menuhin and Kreisler, Corbot and Walter Jesieking doing their stuff. The classical school of composers have been well played over. The number of playings indicate that the Cesar Franck Symphony and the Grieg Concerto are among the most popular works in the collection. Round about the time of the Centennial performance of Gounod's "Faust," this work had a good run. Almost the whole of Handel's "Messiah" was played in consecutive lunch hours. You should see the crowds (comparatively) of grand opera fans who turn up quite regularly to hear sections of aria played. Rumour has it that Denis Hartley is requesting another playing of "Iolanthe," and that he has promised to provide something realistic upon a music room table.

There must surely be something in the collection of 900 records which you like. The catalogue in the music room is accessible all the time. Hunt out your favourites and have members of the Committee play them for you, giving the one day's notice that the rule requires. The gramophone is there to use. Use it!