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...Harvard it is called the Pierian Sodality. It is not only the oldest college orchestra in the U.S., it is by far the oldest orchestra in the U.S. It is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Last week the Pierian (pronounced pie-earian)* Sodality celebrated its 135th anniversary. Its 29 musical Harvardmen went to Maine's Bowdoin College where with 73 Radcliffe girls they performed Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem...
Neither Rome nor the Pierian Sodality, alias the Harvard Orchestral Society, was built overnight. At least, that's what Milton Van Dyke, the Secretary, sagely remarked the other day when the called attention to the fact that this year marked the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra...
...evening's concert may not include the most interesting selections of their large repertoires and although it may not turn out to be the most brilliant performance of the season, nevertheless the occasion should be a memorable one. It marks the 75th anniversary of the Glee Club and the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra, originally known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the oldest orchestra in the United States...
Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...locked room at 455 East 135th Street, Manhattan, Uncle August Koehl, music teacher, composed a march for his nephew, entitled "Mitchel Field or Heaven...