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The Pierian Sodality was founded in 1808, and has always predominantly focused on instrumental music. The early society was especially well-known for its late-night serenading of young women. By 1900, the organization could refer to itself as the Harvard University Orchestra. Members joined the Radcliffe Orchestra for joint concerts during the 1930s, and in 1942, the two groups merged to found the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is a collegiate symphony orchestra comprised of Harvard students and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in March 1808 as the Pierian Sodality, the Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. The band contains over 100 members and is the largest orchestra at Harvard University. The group plays four season concerts every year at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, regularly participates in the annual Arts First arts festival at Harvard, and sometimes gives concerts for children. Its alumni board is still known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808.
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is a collegiate symphony orchestra comprised of Harvard students and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in March 1808 as the Pierian Sodality, the Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. The band contains over 100 members and is the largest orchestra at Harvard University. The group plays four season concerts every year at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, regularly participates in the annual Arts First arts festival at Harvard, and sometimes gives concerts for children. Its alumni board is still known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808.
Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra [accessions], 1880-2014: bibliographic record
The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is a collegiate symphony orchestra comprised of Harvard students and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in March 1808 as the Pierian Sodality, the Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. The band contains over 100 members and is the largest orchestra at Harvard University. The group plays four season concerts every year at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, regularly participates in the annual Arts First arts festival at Harvard, and sometimes gives concerts for children. Its alumni board is still known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808.
The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation website
From the very beginning of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, its alumni formed a club of "graduate members" so that they could continue playing together after graduation. In those early decades the Pierian Sodality had less than a dozen members, consisting mostly of winds (including several players of wooden flutes and a serpent). This rag-tag ensemble, however, was more than adequate for their concerts of popular songs and ubiquitous serenading...
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Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, ca. 1808-2009: bibliographic record
The Pierian Sodality was founded in 1808, and has always predominantly focused on instrumental music. The early society was especially well-known for its late-night serenading of young women. By 1900, the organization could refer to itself as the Harvard University Orchestra. Members joined the Radcliffe Orchestra for joint concerts during the 1930s, and in 1942, the two groups merged to found the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.
First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.
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First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.
Records of the First Parish in Cambridge including committee and club records, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, orders of service, and photographs. The records span 1804-2008.
First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.
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Hans Von Briesen correspondence, 1893-1897.
Von Brieson, Hans, b. 1876. Hans Von Briesen correspondence, 1893-1897.
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Hans Von Briesen correspondence, 1893-1897.
Postcards, letters, and one mounted miniature watercolor painting, mainly addressed to Hans von Briesen between the years 1893 and 1897. During this period von Briesen was attending Columbia College and Harvard College. A few letters are in German, and a handful are addressed to Fritz von Briesen and to a Réné Herzog von Briesen, thought the latter appears to refer to Hans. The bulk of the letters are personal, many from the von Briesen family; the remainder relate to Hans von Briesen's interests, such as the Boston Legal Aid Society and the Pierian Sodality at Harvard, and a few reminders of late coursework and overdue library books. A few letters are from relatives in Germany.
Pierian Sodality Alumni, Inc. Records of the Pierian Sodality Alumni, 1925-1966.
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Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)
Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)
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Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)
Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.
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circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet
Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)
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Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
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John Read papers, 1853-1915.
John Read papers, 1853-1915.
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John Read papers, 1853-1915.
Papers of John Read (Harvard College A.B 1862) Civil War Union naval officer,prisoner-of-war, Massachusetts State Senator and Representative, and partner in thefamily firm, William Read & Sons. Also includes Read family memorabilia and artifacts.
Harvard University. Pierian Sodality. A selection of music as performed by the Pierian Sodality at Harvard University, Cambridge : manuscript, 1810 Feb. 26.
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General information by and about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
General information by and about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
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General information by and about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
May contain press accounts, brochures, programs, and other ephemera.
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. General information by and about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, ca. 1990-
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Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
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Correspondence with family, 1891-1895
Correspondence with family, 1891-1895
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Correspondence with family, 1891-1895
Consists primarily of letters written by Frothingham to his parents while he was a student in Harvard College. The nearly daily missives include his comments on professors and courses, social and dormitory life, and vacation travel, primarily to New Hampshire and Maine. His participation in the Harvard Camera Club, Pierian Sodality, Hasty Pudding Club, and the Crimson newspaper are reflected in the correspondence. The collection also includes four photographs, possibly taken and developed by Frothingham; two depict Harvard Yard and two depict Frothingham with friends.
Frothingham, Francis Edward, b. 1871. Correspondence with family, 1891-1895.
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Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
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Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
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Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Records include general information and clippings, constitution, programs, catalogues of members, histories, secretary's records, correspondence, medals, financial records, tour records, music, and recordings.
Harvard Pierian Foundation, Inc. Records of the Harvard Pierian Foundation, 1972-1975.
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Harvard memorabilia of Julian Burroughs
Harvard memorabilia of Julian Burroughs
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Harvard memorabilia of Julian Burroughs
Harvard memorabilia collected by Julian Burroughs. Includes items from the Harvard Camera Club, 1901, tickets and program for Pierian Sodality concert in 1901, tickets and program for 1901 Class Day, football program from 1920, Harvard Handbook vol. IX, 1898-99 (issued by the Christian Association of Harvard University), and a newsclipping about Burroughs from the Boston Sunday Post, [1901?].
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