Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dracula. This beautifully mounted show shivers the funny bones. As the eerie, spectral count, Frank Langella drinks deep of the Pierian spring of fame...
...intent of this musical organization was not always so serious. The Pierian Sodality (HRO's formal name) claims to be the oldest continuing musical organization in the United States. It was founded...
...main purpose of the original Pierian Sodality seems to have been to serenade young ladies in the Boston vicinity. One Pierian remembers, the balmy nights of early summer. . . wherever. . . dwelt celebrated belles, [were] interrupted by the delicate strains of the little group of players, who found a sufficient reward in the sound of a window raised, a blind thrown open or any other indication that the sleepers were alert. The recollection of every one who took part in them and supply him with abundant incidents of these romantic excursions, oftentimes sufficiently amusing, such as the wishing of the tender strains...
...Orchestra, but did not itself adopt this name until 1909. The orchestra was not complete until 1942 when it joined the then separate Radcliffe orchestra: "the girls needed basses and the men needed strings." The Harvard Glee Club and the Boston Symphony Orchestra both owe their existence to the Pierian Sodality...
Although the Pierian Sodality may no longer serenade fair ladies, the members still manage to enjoy themselves. There was the 1962 Mexican tour, 1965 Midwest tour, 1966 Washington, D. C. tour, 1968 Cape Cod concert, and last year's tour with concerts at Georgetown in Washington, D. C., an inaugural concert in the new hall at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, and a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Members of the orchestra will never forget the 12-hour bus ride from Cambridge to Washington ("I'm sorry," they said at the Howard Johnson Restaurant...