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...last Friday’s performance, the entire front section of the Sanders main floor was filled with grown-up folks from the Pierian Foundation, HRO’s alumni support network. In addition to simply coming to the concerts, the Pierians provide funding for the orchestra and help with decision making and logistical planning...
Getting to people who don’t usually listen to classical music, orchestra members say, is absolutely crucial, but convincing such outsiders that a two-hour concert is worth their time on a Friday night can be a hard sell...
...This is definitely not the hey-day of classical music,” says James P. Ferus ’07 of the Bach Society Orchestra. “It’s something you can’t avoid, though there are still many dedicated people and musicians...
...wasn’t always such a struggle to stir up interest, according to HRO conductor James Yannatos, who has been leading then orchestra for 41 years. His musicians lovingly call...
...early 1970s, he remembers, the orchestra played a midnight concert which also drew a sell-out crowd full of undergrads...