PIERIAN TO OPEN SEASON AT COPLEY DECEMBER 3

The Pierian Sodality of 1808 will open its 118th season on Wednesday, December 3, with a concert at the Copley Theatre, it was announced last night by the orchestra manager. The Sodality is the University orchestra, and for many years past it has given a concert at the Copley Theatre to open its season.

The Pierian Sodality Orchestra is the oldest institution of its kind in America, and is the institution from which the University Glee Club sprang. In its earliest years the orchestra had many difficulties to overcome, at one time there was only one member of tile Sodality left at the opening of the University in the fall, but this solitary member succeeded in forming a new Sodality, and since then it has become more and more prominent in the field of orchestral work.

Both Modern and Classic Pieces

It is the purpose of the Pierian Sodality to bring before the American public at least a small part of what is good in contemporary music. Already several manuscripts have been used successfully, but the established classics, especially those of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shubert, and Beethoven, remain dominant in the repertoire of the Sodality.

G. A. Brown '25 will coach the orchestra during the coming season, it was announced last night. Brown has played in the orchestra for three years as first cellist, under W. R. Piston Jr. '24, last year's conductor. At present Piston is continuing his musical studies abroad. His training has been under such men as George Chadwick, Wallace Goodrich, Karl Muck, Pierre Monteaux, and Emil Mollenbauser.