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Kalman Novak '45 will be the featured soloist at the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert to be presented by the Pierian Sodality of 1808 at Paine Hall, in the Music Building, on Wednesday, January 19, at 8:15 o'clock. George Brown will conduct...
Other miscellaneous organizations which still carry on include the Glee Club, the Orchestra or Pierian Sodality, the Outing Club, and various language clubs and smaller groups. Positions as team managers are still available in many sports but few bring with them letters...
Last night it was the Pierian Sodality (of 1808) that reminded a semi-filled Paine Hall that, war or no war, music still serves as a good selling-point for a Harvard audience...
...other college it would be called a Symphony Orchestra. At Harvard it is called the Pierian Sodality. It is not only the oldest college orchestra in the U.S., it is by far the oldest orchestra in the U.S. It is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Last week the Pierian (pronounced pie-earian)* Sodality celebrated its 135th anniversary. Its 29 musical Harvardmen went to Maine's Bowdoin College where with 73 Radcliffe girls they performed Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem...
...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...