August 11, 1936, and returned to New York January 5, 1937. The trip was financed by each individual student and cost from $540 to $675 (exclusive of tuition paid to the school) depending upon the taste, primarily the concert taste, of the student. We visited Germany, Austria, France, and England, and certain members of the party took side trips to Czechoslovakia, Denmark, and Sweden. We attended the complete Ring cycle at Bayreuth, spent a week in Salzburg, attending Falstaff and Fidelio, under the baton of Toscanini; Tristan and Isolde and The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Weingartner, and Everyman and Faust, both under the direction of Max Reinhardt. We spent four weeks in Berlin where we studied the German language at the University. We spent a short but rich two weeks in Paris. Here we had a series of six lec-