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Walter Hamor Piston Jr. of Boston...
Modern music intermixed with classical will comprise the program of the Pierian Sodality's annual Boston concert, which will be given tomorrow at 3.30 o'clock in the Copley Theatre. Walter Piston '24 will conduct, and Joseph Lautner '21, tenor, will be the soloist...
Modern dancing will open the program at 9.30 o'clock, after which the Pierian Sodality Orchestra under the direction of Walter Piston '24, will play festival music. In the presentations of excerpts from Shakespearian plays, including scenes from "The Merchant of Venice" and "As You Like It", many University and Radcliffe Students will participate...
...program of the organization's concerts will include a departure from those of previous years in that contemporary music will be played as much as, possible, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Piston '24, for many years conductor of the Glee Club. He also stated that a particular effort would be made to produce music composed by members of the University. The established classics, especially those of Mozart, Mendelshon, Shubert, and Beethoven, will, however, have a large place on the program of every Sodality concert...
This experiment with contemporary music has many advantages. Mr. Piston states that many young composers have written excellent compositions, which for various reasons are unacceptable to the symphony orchestras, or which, not being taken over by the publisher, never reach the smaller orchestras. If one new composer...