Word: pierians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing else, Saturday's musical venture in the vicinity of Sanders Theatre proved conclusively that Secretary Hull's Good-Neighbor Policy should remain strictly international. Two days ago the Radcliffe Choir and the Pierian Sodality led respectively by G. Wallace Woodworth and Malcolm H. Holmes, invaded the hidden recesses of Brunswick, Maine, and when they again crawled into the open before an audience, they were accompanied by a bewildered Bowdoin College Glee Club and its frantically gesticulating conductor, Mr. Frederic Tillotson. I trust that the experiment will not be repeated...
...following this, G. Wallace Woodworth led the Radcliffe group through the oft-repeated Purcell "Nymphs and Shepherds," two choruses of Bela Bartok and the Schubert "Valses Nobles," the latter being one good reason why transcriptions should be made with discrimination. Radcliffe sang well, but has done better. When the Pierian followed this with an adequate performance of the Morley "Ayre in D Minor," approval was shown in most quarters...
Neither Rome nor the Pierian Sodality, alias the Harvard Orchestral Society, was built overnight. At least, that's what Milton Van Dyke, the Secretary, sagely remarked the other day when the called attention to the fact that this year marked the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra...
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring...
Exactly what the Society fed on for the first few years of its perilous existence is still somewhat of a mystery because the first mention of music performed is in 1810, Handel's Air." The following year the Pierian anticipated playing Handel's "Waterpiece" at Commencement, but "the member who plays the 2nd Clarionett having a sore jaw, occasioned by the Extraction of a tooth, it was judged necessary to apologize to the Seniors and decline playing." The following year, however, a brilliant comeback was staged when its first concert was performed...