Word: concert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Extensive plans are being made by the University Musical Clubs for what is expected to be one of the most successful seasons on record. In addition to the usual short concert trips to such cities as Providence, R. I., New York city, Manchester, N. H., Keene, N. H., Fall River, Springfield, Worcester and Portland, Me., and the numerous concerts in and around Boston, including the dual concerts with Princeton and with Yale at New Haven, on the evenings before the Princeton and Yale football games, the clubs will this year take their biennial winter trip--spending the entire Christmas recess...
...preliminary itinerary includes concerts in Philadelphia, Pa., Washington, D. C. Richmond, Va., Baltimore, Md., Pinehurst, N. C., Charleston, S. C., Columbia, S. C., with Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., as possibilities. Each concert is to be followed by a dance, and in almost every city visited the clubs will be entertained at the dances, dinners or smokers by the local Harvard Alumni, and, whenever possible, taken on sight-seeing trips through the surrounding country...
...which to build an orchestra was not one to boast of as compared with that of previous years, yet the Pierian developed so consistently that its performance more than equalled that of any past year. The program of modern French and Flemish music given at the Annual Concert in Sanders Theatre was a difficult one for any amateur orchestra to undertake, particularly the symphony of Dukas', and was much beyond anything the Pierian has attempted before. Yet it was rendered with at least as much feeling and as good technique as the programs of the recent annual concerts. The concert...
...place of the early-season concert heretofore given for Union members, the Pierian began a series of Annual Mid-year Concerts in the Music Building free to the whole University. The concert this year was attended by a very enthusiastic audience, and it is expected that this series will increase in importance every year, and that it will be a means of bringing the Orchestra into closer touch with the University
...such an organization to have a member of the University at the head of it. Professional coaches, of course, are a necessity in nearly every field of amateur endeavor, and the Pierian is no exception to this. It should by all means have a professional coach, but on the concert platform it should be led by one of its own members, even at the risk of a less finished performance...