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Herbert Moore Hamblen '26 of Spokane, Washington, was elected president of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 for the coming year at a meeting held last night...
...Pierian Sodality Alumni, which was organized a year ago, has also announced that it has formed an orchestra composed exclusively of former members of the University organization. The new orchestra will give its first public concert on May 14 at the annual banquet of the Tremont Temple Brotherhood in Ford Hall...
...words to the discussion concerning the Pierian Sodality precipitated by Mr. Virgil Thomson's criticism in last Saturday's CRIMSON and continued by Mr. Charles G. Thompson's letter in this morning's issue...
...seems to me that the Pierian could find much more valid and convincing arguments for its side of the question than the vituperation of Mr. Thompson's Philippie. I cannot agree that the question of the decline of the Pierian is without the domain of the critic (although I do not believe that the Harvard orchestra really is in such a bad way). To the critic all is pertinent that has any bearing on the quality of the performance. After all, the function of the critic, as Mr. Thompson has pointed out, is to comment as impartially as is humanly...
There is however, much to be said in favor of the Pierian that has been over-looked by its apologist as well as by its critic. The Pierian certainly holds a very high place among college orchestras. What though its programmes be drawn from familiar restaurant repertory? This is not likely to be objectionable to any but a sophisticated taste and restaurant music is usually decidedly pleasing. The Orchestra furthermore has had to hew its own way, fighting along with no help from the Music Department and selecting its conductors from its own ranks. Its programmes, its aims...