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Last night's was an odd concert. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra surpassed itself in many respects: it delivered a fully professional performance of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony, under the direction of Michael Senturia. Yet an accumulation of minor failings and a stolidly unadventuresome program--Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Handel--revealed that the orchestra is, after all, only a remarkable organization of musical amateurs...
...concert introduced two musicians to the Sanders Theatre public: Ursula Oppens '65, soloist with the orchestra in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and Robert Kogan '62, conductor of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture...
Miss Oppens, winner of the 1962 concerto contest, played the title role in Beethoven's man-killing concerte: she was in kingly command of the piano, In addition to her ability to punch out octave scales, her technical stamina made it happily evident that she was no namby-pamby dilletance of the piano. Only a slight sloppiness at the end of the first movement and a bit too much pedal at times detracted from the virtuoso level of the performance. Miss Oppens, who performed this concerto also at the Aspen Music Festival, will be around for four years...
...Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Eileen Farrell, soprano; Carol Smith, contralto; Richard Lewis, tenor; Kim Borg, bass; the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia...
...admirable balanced reading of the Beethoven masterpiece, less densely dramatic than most, more cohesive in feeling...