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Heading for the heaviest concert schedule in its 133-year history, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 is fulfilling its purpose "to maintain, increase, and advance orchestral music" better than ever this year, according to its officers...
...concerts. Besides the Haydn Symphony No. 1 (the Drum Roll), the one well-known piece on the programs, the orchestra is rehearsing selections such as "Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb", written by Professor Edward E. Ballantine '07 and orchestrated by Robert U. Jameson '32, former Pierian president. A clever satire on the work of Schuber, Tschaikovsky, MacDowell, and Wagner, the work of the various composers is easily recognizable in the composition even by amateurs...
Entirely student-run and supported, the orchestra claims to be the father of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as of the Harvard Glee Club and the Music Department, the first one to be established in the country. Up until 1880 the Pierian consisted merely of a few musicians who gathered together to play college songs. However, from that time on the orchestra grew in importance, first under student conductors, and then under professionals, until it finally reached its present level of excellence...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University symphony orchestra, will present a concert tonight over Station WRUL, beginning at 9 o'clock. Malcolm H. Holmes will conduct, and the broadcast will take place in Paine Hall. The program includes...
Containing everything from the Pierian well water of Johann Sebastian Bach to the violet-bordered stream of Schubert's Ave Maria, Fantasia is a long succession of very large orders. Some of these orders (the flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave...