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...spite of the little public notice the musical clubs have been attracting this summer, they are having one of the biggest seasons in their history. Both the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality Orchestra have had turnonts far exceeding anything in the past. Between 360 and 370 singers, feminine as well as masculine, have regularly, every Monday and Thursday evenings, been attending the rehearsal room in Sever Hall, forming a chair of mixed voices even larger than last year's combined Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus...
...Quintet is, on the whole, lighter and less tense than its predecessor, the Fifth Symphony, and it is laced with the familiar Shostakovitch devices of modal harmony, folk melody, and unusual percussive effects. The performers are members of Dr. Koussevitsky's faculty at Tanglewood, with Malcolm Holmes of Pierian fame playing one violin and Sanroma at the piano. The festivities start...
...Yale baseball game at 3 o'clock, a Class supper at 6 o'clock, a Glee Club and Pierian Sodality concert, and the annual Ivy Oration at 8 o'clock in the Kirkland House triangle will take the place of the colorful Stadium ceremonies and confetti battles, cancelled this June as a war economy...
Malcolm H. Holmes, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will then conduct the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in five orchestral selections: Sinfonia, "To Thee Alone be Glory," by Bach; Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, Minuet: Allegretto, by Mozart; Polka from "The Bartered Bride," by Smetana; Polka from "The Golden Age," by Shostakovitch; and March from "Peter and the Wolf," by Prokoflef...
Following the final baseball game with Yale at Soldiers Field, 3 o'clock, Saturday, June 6, activities of the Senior Class will begin in the Triangle with a buffet supper at 6 o'clock. At 8 o'clock a concert will be given by the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality, followed by the annual Ivy Oration, a humorous summarization of the four-year history of the Senior Class, to be delivered this year by Coles H. Phinizy. Class features and "stunts" will then follow, and Saturday's meeting will be concluded with the singing of "Fair Harvard." Dancing will...