Nothing in the world of music can hold for me this week interest comparable to that which a divisional examination demands, with the result that today these lines will be devoted to a plain round-up of unrelated items rather than to any central theme. First of all, I want to call attention again to the symposium in Winthrop House Junior Common Room this evening, at which most of Harvard's active jazz players will congregate to display their talents. I don't know just what procedure will be followed, but probably there will be a small band or two formed, so that each soloist will have solid support during his innings. The entries are not closed yet, and even if you play only a slide whistle, remember that Louis Armstrong has brought a new lease of life even to that unimpressive instrument, so that if you can coax a jazz solo from it, you are welcome.

The program will, of course, be broadcast over the Network, but the presence of a large, lively, and appreciative audience is here and now requested, as appreciation is something a jazz musician should receive in good measure. The opening chorus will begin about 8:45, in order to have everyone properly warmed up by 9 o'clock. . . .

In my review of the spring dance band situation last week I did not include Adams House, whose plans had not then been announced. I have since been duly apprized of the forthcoming presence there of Will Bradley's orchestra two weeks from tonight. Bradley was, we all were informed, "on the way up" at the time when he played for the Jubilee two years ago. Now he's on the way up again. Never attaining the big success his "Beat Me Daddy" record seemed to augur for him, he lost many of his outstanding men and finally parted company with his partner, the drummer Ray McKinley, who now has his own band. I, heard the revamped Bradley group on the air a few nights, ago, and found it a nice, pleasant orchestra, not greatly different from a bevy of other orchestras. They didn't play much jazz that night, but their numbers were delivered smoothly. I doubt if Adams House will go hog-wild over them, but as I have observed before, the orchestra isn't everything at a House dance. I did like his theme song very much, and hope he plays it all the way through some time. It was a sort of atmospheric Ellingtonian piece with effective use of tomtoms, and I want to hear it again. . . .

"Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm" have split, and who should be reviewing records for the former but Mike Levin, the founder of this column three and a half years ago? He is their New York editor now, in fact. George Frazier, who wrote for both magazines, will concentrate on "Music and Rhythm" from now on.