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Friday night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert was good throughout, but several things kept it from being excellent. Notably, poor string playing plagued the orchestra from time to time. This was especially evident in a marked fuzziness of the very first allegretto passages of Haydn's Symphony No. 99 and in several muddled string sections in the third and fourth movements of this same work. Michael Senturia conducted skillfully, but in spite of his efforts the exuberance of this fine symphony did not come across...
...program of recorded music Saturday in Matthews Hall common Room, 3-5 p.m., is Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
...evening concluded with a performance of a second Mozart concerto, this one the Concerto No. 19 in F, K. 459. Joel Sachs, the pianist, gave a more than adequate performance. His control of dynamics and phrasing are convincingly professional, and the quiet allegretto was played with delicacy and poise. The orchestra, it seems almost redundant to say, accompanied Mr. Sachs with care and with grace...
...Allegretto. In West Hartlepool, England, Bandmaster Robert Davies paid his fine for speeding, explained: "I was humming one of Liszt's rhapsodies. During one of the quickening passages, I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music...
...Moderato for string trio by Imogene Horsley, teaching fellow in music, is a logically built work with some excellent contrapuntal passages and often lyrical melodic line. Betty Churgin's Allegretto for flute and piano consists of the episodic treatment of two recurrent themes. Because of some weak transitions, the sections seemed somewhat dis-connected--though they were skillfully worked out in themselves...