Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Before attempting such a plan we should wish to make the orchestral part of the society more complete. For this purpose there will be a second trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality after the Christmas recess. The following instruments are needed: First violins, viola, double bass, trombone, second flute and piccolo, oboe, bassoon and kettledrum. As we said above, this benefit concert is merely a suggestion, which may be carried out if the progress of the Association warrants...
...private house where there are seven or eight other students. The seven or eight are, I believe, all musical. Under the circumstances, I of course expect the days and the evenings to be filled with music. I have learned to study equally well to the sound of the flute, violin, guitar and human voice. But however well I may get on during the day and evening, I find that I cannot sleep while my friends are making their music. As I write, the hour is past ten P. M. I am waiting for one violin to stop. All the other...
Meeting of fifes of Drum Corps today at 4.30 at the brass band room (Pudding building.) Every student who can play a tune on the fife or flute is desired to come...
...Pierian propose, then, to give an informal recital at their rooms in Roberts' Block, Brattle square, on that evening at 7.15 o'clock, to which all members of the university will be admitted on payment of twenty-five cents. The programme will consist of solos for the piano, violin, flute and 'cello, and probably a quartette for strings, and the special point is to be that only such pieces are to be played as were really written for those instruments. It is hoped that in this way a popular and interesting form of entertainment may be introduced here...
...Priest's Song from "The Magic Flute," rendered by Mr. S. Coolidge in chapel yesterday, was a most pleasant feature of the exercises...