 The association's most important notable accomplishments include the creation of the country's finest music library of the time, the sponsorship of the first professional and public chamber music series in the United States, the erection of the Boston Music Hall, and the formation of the orchestra which ultimately gave rise to the Boston Symphony Orchestra.The association's library catalog may be searched on OCLC with the initials HVDMA.In July 1837, the Pierian Sodality, a society of musically inclined Harvard undergraduates, held its annual meeting.