PIERIAN SODALITY TAKES ON TWENTY NEW MEMBERS

The Pierian Sodality Orchestra made a good start on its 116th consecutive concert season when it took in 20 new men from the trials held last Thursday and Friday. Although the orchestra lost many of its best men last June by graduation, this large number of new men will more than bring it up to full symphonic strength. If there are any more men, however, who were not able to try out last week, the management urges them to report at the first rehearsal tonight in the Music Building at 7.30 o'clock. These men will be under no handicap for their delayed start. The management also announces that, although a number of candidates reported last Thursday for the competition for first and second assistant managerships. It is not too late for men to come out; they too should report at 7.30 o'clock tonight at the Music Building.

Mr. Walter Piston, instructor in the Music Department, who last year brought the orchestra up to a musical standard so high that newspaper critics wrote very favorably of its concerts on the Christmas trip, will again conduct the orchestra this year.

In addition to concerts in Providence, R. I., Worcester, Portland, Me., and Springfield, the management hopes to give many performances in the vicinity of Boston and also several concerts at some of the larger girls' schools, which will be followed by dancing.

Following its policy of last year, the orchestra will include on its programs pieces composed by undergraduates and members of the Music Department. Several original composition, by Mr. Edward Ballantine, instructor in Music, and G. McC. Newell Sp. will be rendered for the first time. This policy has been adopted to enable students in Music to hear their own compositions properly rendered.