Word: pierians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played, liquored, and adjourned," read the old minutes of the College's first musical group, the Pierian Sodality of 1808. But its modern foster child, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, could hardly duplicate such wantonness for tomorrow night's Easter concert which starts at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The second concert of the 1950-51 season selt, working with the new conductor, Russell Stanger...
Miss Posselt also finds her rehearsal time a bit limited, for she has seven and three-year-old children. Of the nine concert that Miss Posselt offered to play, the Pierian executives--who run the orchestra--decided upon Hindemith's Violin Concerto. Her knowledge of that piece is a benefit derived from her marriage...
When it comes to taking on new Radcliffe members, though, Peter H. Judd '53, general manager of the orchestra, sometimes has to think twice. Last fall, for instance, he received an irate letter from an old member of the Pierian Sodality, John W. Johnstone '05, who founded the first band ever to play at a Yale football game. Johnstone wrote, "why are there Radcliffe girls on the same stage with Harvard...
...Pierian members still have some influence around the orchestra. It was the former organization that began all musical groups at Harvard and indirectly, the Boston Symphony. Pierian started with ten students and claims to be the oldest continuing musical organization in America...
There are black sports in Pierian history; in 1925, a manager floated bonds to finance a transcontinental tour. This put the Pierian Orchestra, as it was called during the '20's, in debt until it became the Harvard University Orchestra...