Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the Pierian Sodality was fooled into thinking that a Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time. Friday night's concert relied too heavily on traditional enthusiasm as a substitute for technical proficiency. After the tenor's Every valley shall be exalted, for instance, the chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed should follow as a natural extension of the aria. Conductor Alfred Nash Patterson permitted long gaps of silence which destroyed the relationship. He misconceived some musical details as well. Instead of grouping the dotted rhythms of the overture in melodic phrases...
Under Mr. Patterson the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra combined spirit and inaccuracy to sound like a typical group of musical amateurs. The strings often played out of tune in both the Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto. Vigorously conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, the concerto showed off Pierian's excellent first desk players, but they were hampered by the in-accuracies of those behind them...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Pierian Sodality Chorus will present Handel's "Messiah," including the entire Christmas portion and Corelli's Christmas Concerto in Sanders Theatre today...
...Orchestra is larger than at any time in recent years," Stuart Levino '54, president of the Pierian Sodality, commented, "and it is tremendously enthusiastic about playing under Mr. Burgin...
...concert by the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet yesterday afternoon inaugurated the Pierian Sodality's 1953-54 Sunday Concert Series. The Quintet is composed of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; four of them are the solo players in their respective sections. This ensemble represents a tradition which is one of the most significant and unique features of the contemporary musical scene. Perhaps the central innovation of the modern virtuoso orchestra is the phenomenally increased importance of the woodwinds. Certain mechanical improvements in some of the woodwinds during the past century have helped to bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum...