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Another pre-war tradition, the Pierian Sodality's competition for original musical compositions by Harvard and Radcliffe students, will return to the college scene this winter...
...compositions, which must be placed in the Pierian box at Paine Hall by March 8, must be suited for a college orchestra, although modern idiom is not discouraged. The competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students now at Harvard and Radcliffe...
Strictly for classicists is the Pierian Sodality of 1808, oldest musical organization in the land. About 60 members of the Harvard and Radcliffe orchestras form the skilled nucleus of both organizations, and spend their time boosting the orchestra's prestige by playing at local schools and clubs...
...such an announcement should not frighten the audience away. The average group which appears once in Boston allows all the slovenly playing it suppresses elsewhere to come out, realizing that the majority of its audience will not know any better. But this concert is to be sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, and therefore an audience of some artistic susceptibility may be present...
...Ortenberg, the two violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while...