Word: pierians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Although Pierian fostered the glee club and band, the orchestra is the only large group it now rules. But Pierian continues to found new musical groups...
...organized the College's first Chamber Music Workshop this year under former orchestra conductor, Malcolm Holmes '28. The group has performed at Lowell House and Radcliffe so far. The Pierian Chamber Players of Eliot House, under Leonard Marcus '51, are another of the Club's achievements...