Glee Club and Pierian Concert.

The Glee Club and the Pierian may congratulate themselves on the great success of their first concert last night. It was well deserved; and this was apparently the opinion of the large audience which completely filled the theatre; and gave constant marks of warm approval. Never has the Pierian done such good work within the memory of present undergraduates; their playing has more of the merits of real orchestral work, and fewer of the failings of amateurs than we have ever known it to have. While this is due in large measure to the excellent training administered by Mr. Forchheimer, who is apparently quite at home in the mysteries of an orchestral score, still it is evident that the standard of individual excellence is much higher than it has been in former years, and that the orchestra contains a larger number of performers of high merit, who give it a certainty and solidity which has not always been noticeable. It is also a very gratifying fact that it has not been necessary to have any professionals to play some of the more unusual instruments as has heretofore been the case, and that the services of outside tenors in the Glee Club has been entirely dispensed with.

The programme was an excellent one being bright and taking, and of interest throughout. The orchestral pieces, a Persian "Schah-Wache," an arrangement for strings of Schumann's very well worn "Traeumerei," and a Slavonic Dance by Drorak, were well played; the latter especially evinced careful preparation, and a considerable degree of finish, and was warmly received by the audience. The Glee Club did some excellent work in its part songs; Hatton's "Letter" was sung with spirit, and a burlesque "Credo" by A. W. Thayer proved very funny. Several new and taking college songs at once found a response in the hearts of the audience; the yodeling especially proved popular, and it was very good. Messrs. Baldwin and Frochheimer gave a tasteful rendering of a song by Robandi, with 'cello obligato.

Mr. Pear in his piano solos showed considerable technical skill; but in the first, a nocturne by Chopin, he did not quite reach all the sentiment of the thing; his rendering of the Mazurka however was much more satisfactory. The success of the meeting however from an artistic of view was the movement from the Judassohn trio, played by Messrs. Hillerbrand, Loeb and Palmer: it was exceedingly well done, and evinced not only a high degree of technical skill and careful finish, but a fine artistic feeling that was satisfactory.

The concert as a whole was a pronounced success; and it must have been a cause of no small degree of satisfaction to everybody present, and particularly to Harvard men, to note the abundance of musical ability in the college.