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Tomorrow evening, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) will open its bicentennial season. Over 100 musicians will play in the concert. Yet, in 1832, HRO’s predecessor—the Pierian Sodality of 1808—had been whittled down to a single member.The intrepid flautist Henry Gassett ’34 (1834, that is) played on in solitude before convincing another flautist to join him in duets, and eventually coaxing others to help reinvigorate the organization.Besides the HRO, one of America’s oldest musical organizations, other groups ranging from the Harvard Glee Club to the Boston...
...played the flute. When in 1??2 complains about the Society's night music led to an official request for its disagreement Heary Gassett refused to resign. He held meetings with himself in his chair, paid himself dues regularly, played his flute in solidity. Finally he persuaded another flutist to join in duets. Gradually they elected other members. The Sodality played...
...membership question was not so easily disposed of. Complaints in 1832 about the Sodality's serenading led the University to ask the four members to resign, but Henry Gassett '34, the flute player, refused. For two years he met with himself, wrote up the minutes, played to himself, paid dues, and probably drank with himself. His Pierian spirit gradually attracted other musicians so that they were strong enough to found the Glee Club in 1834, and to play for a Porcellian Club entertainment...
...Sodality is proudest of the memory of one Pierian but for whom its 135 year tradition would not exist. He was an individualist named Henry Gassett of the class of 1834, and he played the flute. When, in 1832, complaints about the Sodality's night music led to an official request for its disbandment, Henry Gassett refused to resign. He held meetings with himself in the chair, paid himself dues regularly, played his flute in solitude. Finally he persuaded another flautist to join in duets. Gradually they elected other members. The Sodality played...
...Lewis S. Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf H. Fernald Lucille Ogden, Wellesley Philip St. G. Field Becky Farnsworth, Winchester Gabriel P. Freedman Geraldine Cohn, Radcliffe Sanford J. Freedman Sue Cohen, Skidmore Stanley A. Freedman Joyce Beskind, Great Neck, N. Y. John R Friar Virginia Ranney, Weston Maurice S. Friedman Sally Baker, Radcliffe Raymond Friedman Elayne...