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...first performance of Jan LaRue's Concertino. LaRue graduated magna cum laude in music last June and wrote his work as a graduate student at Princeton during the winter. While he was at Harvard, he played first clarinet in the orchestra and was elected president of the Pierian Sodality in his Senior year...
...Harvard University Orchestra (Pierian Sodality of 1808) will top off a successful season tonight in its annual concert at Paine Hall, conducted by Malcolm Holmes. Including eighteenth-century classics and products of Harvard College, the program opens with Gretry's Overture to "Le Magnifique," and Haydn's superb "Drum Roll" Symphony. The Mozart Serenata Notturna for string orchestra, string quartet, and tympani which follows, will have the expert collaboration of the Stradivarius String Quartet, and Buxtehude's organ Chaconne in E minor will have the collaboration of Malcolm Holmes, who has transcribed the work for orchestra. Closing the program...
Roger A. Cunningham, of Kent, O. and Lowell House. History is his field, and, in addition to being a debater, he is also vice-president of Pierian Sodality...
Gabriel Jackson, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. and Leverett House. A concentrator in History and Literature, he is also a member of Pierian Sodality and the Harvard Student Union...
...relegate him to a name in Purcell's biography is to slight his gifts as a composer as well as to lose some fine music. The revival at Lowell House of Venus and Adonis, with Nancy Waite and John Darr in the title roles, the Radcliffe Ballet, and the Pierian under Mal Holmes participating, should be an event of interest and entertainment to all music lovers, especially to those who miss as sorely as I do the lovely minor music of the seventeenth century...