Art, among other things, helps to develop the higher cinotions
and rcfine the scnses and plays a great role in the deveiopment of
sclf-control and a finer, more human expression in fecling and ac-
tion. All this has profound implications for such problems as vio-
lence and even what are known as cases of possession, in which
people scem helplessly seized by perverse forces. An integral acs-
thetic training can do much to alleviate these problems, reduce

» their occurrence in a society, not just by providing another outlet
for youthful energies but by developing a higher outlet, nurturing
aspirations and aesthetic sense over the satisfaction of lower im-
pulses and desires, developing, in other words, the higher vital na-
ture, the seat of more idealistic love, heroism and nobility of
character; this aspect of the human nature can bring a truer control

% and a richer personal expression.

But the aesthetic training itself must be properly directed—not
just “arts and crafts,”’ but a development of taste and 2 deepening
sense of the beautiful. Art is not self-expression, it is Self-expres-

~ sion, not the expression of all that is low and superficial and dark in
us (however strongly felt), but what is deepest and highest, opening
us up to more subtle ranges and levels of our being. And Art, the
Mother says, is not skill; art is vision, a vision of the senses and feel-
ings. The importance of art in the further evolution of the race
cannot be ignored.

The Naticnal Value of Art
- Sri Aurobindo .
A . R g Z e R R L A S AL S R GRS
It is to this ideal that this concert is dedicated.

: Tenor Sax, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, Faculty
Piano, BEN DOWLING, Boston, Massachusetts
Bass, GEORGE KOZUB, Edmonton, Alberté, Canada
Vibes, JOHN SHAPIRO, Boston, Massachusetts
Percussion, MARTIN SILVERMAN, Ithaca, New York
Percussion, RAY FRISBY, Boston, Massachusetts

Drums/Percussion, TONY NOTERFONZO, Faculty