Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has been a constantly growing feeling for some years, that the Pierian has ceased to be the representative orchestra of Harvard University, and is maintained more for socal ties than for the advancement of orchestral music. A perusal of any three consecutive lists shows that a number of men sever connections with the orchestra after a membership of one year or less. If its prime object is to give the players orchestral experience, why is it that practically only one programme was given the whole year? How was it that even then at many concerts some of the wind...
...College gives men who play in the N. E. Conservatory Orchestra one-half course credit. Is it not fair that the same credit be given to members of a college orchestra? The Pierian is a separate organization having a state charter. What we need is a College orchestra to do for our Music Department what the English 47 workshop does for our Dramatic Department. BENJAMIN GROSBAYN. Assistant Conductor '14-'15. Concertmaster...
...CRIMSON prints a communication today which calls attention to the need of a representative undergraduate orchestra. The writer asserts that the Pierian Sodality is hampered in its work on account of obstacles inherent to its organization. These obstacles arise chiefly from the fact that the Pierian, in addition to being an orchestra, is a social organization, and this fact stands in the way of any radical improvements. Because of its social character, discriminations are necessarily made which seriously impair the quality of the work...
...claimed, for example, that an orchestra of greater experience and ability could be made up from undergraduates outside of the Pierian, than from those in it. Moreover, social qualifications have so restricted the Society in the choice of its conductors, that it has had to resort to graduates and even to professionals for its leaders. The charge of professionalism is further advanced on account of the employment of Symphony men in the annual concerts. Nor can the general work of the Society be given a very high place, either in the variety of their programmes, or in the quality...
...meeting of the Pierian Sodality, David Oakes Woodbury '18 of Ogunquit, Maine, was elected assistant manager of the orchestra for 1915-16. The date of the annual spring banquet of the orchestra was determined for June...