Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 be preserved, but also all musical traditions everywhere” (Nettl 1999). His comments were issued almost 40 years after Wilton Mason recounted a conversation with a Ceylon [Sri Lankan] delegate about American popular music replacing folk arts in foreign...

Folk Music in a Changing World

31 December 1961 This article reflects a panel that was part of a Symposium entitled College Music Abroad, which took place at the December 29, 1961, session of the CMS annual conference, Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. The other panelists were Elliot Forbes, Iva...

On [i]Symposium[/i] at 40

01 November 1999 years. The first article in the College Music Symposium to reveal a multicultural awareness appeared in 1962. It was by Wilton Mason, entitled "Folk Music in a Changing World." Mason wrote: "We are now in rapid communication with every part of the...

Smith and Amherst in Europe

31 December 1961 CMS annual conference, Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. The other panelists were Elliot Forbes, Thomas A. Sokol, and Wilton Mason. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 2. At the outset may I say that I am deeply grateful to my professors at...

Harvard Glee Club in Asia

31 December 1961 CMS annual conference, Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. The other panelists were Iva Dee Hiatt, Thomas A. Sokol, and Wilton Mason. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 2. A complete report on the nine-week tour of the Harvard Glee Club...

Cornell Glee Club in Russia

31 December 1961 the CMS annual conference, Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. The other panelists were Elliot Forbes, Iva Dee Hiatt, and Wilton Mason. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 2. Last winter [1960-61] seventy-five members of the Cornell University...