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Today, she can be seen at a near run, cris-crossing the campus with a black viola case on her back trying to attend the myriad rehearsals for the myriad musical groups she is a part of. There’s HRO and BachSoc, Collegium, The Brattle Street Chamber Players, The Baroque Orchestra and performances for two Chamber Music classes, Music 180 and Music 93R. There are the theatrical performances (“about four or five a year”), HRCME (a group of undergraduate composers) and any number of spontaneuos groups that tend...
...day”), Sarah organized a gigantic pie eating competition among faculty and students. She obtained around 35 pies and, at 3:14 in the afternoon, the competitors ate as much pie as possible for 3 minutes and 14 seconds. Sarah also plays the violin in HRO and is involved in ECHO...
Founded in 1808, the HRO is the oldest continually performing orchestra in the United States. Its alumni group, the Pierian Sodality, oversees the budget and fund raising to avoid letting the orchestra fall through the cracks of hard times. HRO Treasurer Ariel B. E. Shwayder ’03 speculates, “Most of our money comes from ticket sales or donations from people…but I can’t see anything really drastic happening to us, because we have people who take care of us and we know we’re in good hands...
Without the tension of financial shortages, student organizations like HRO and the Concert Commission are thinking ahead on ways to share with relief efforts related to Sept...
Rather than losing financial support, Shwayder says, “The events have effected [HRO] in the opposite way. We’re planning a national tour for next summer. We have discussed going to New York City and Washington, D.C. and making it a benefit tour; maybe donating to the United Way or the Red Cross.” Lee and the Concert Commission are considering a Benefit Fund, in which certain concerts are deemed benefit shows and proceeds go to affected families...