Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cantata Singers are one of those rare organizations that take their name seriously. In a concert of three cantatas of J. S. Bach, they produced a more professional sound than any group performing regularly at Harvard. The clarity they gave to every detail of polyphony, the precision of their runs and enunciation, and their rich, vibrant tone made listening to them a sensual pleasure...
...there were serious flaws in the way conductor Leo Collins used this magnificent choral instrument. Saturday's concert was just short of exciting because Collins' choice of tempos and articulation made the cantatas a little contrived, a little fussy...
Conductor James Walker assembled a concert program that was sophisticated by anyone's standards. Except for the Sousa-like Emblem of Unity at the beginning, the pieces performed were thoroughly twentieth-century, ranging in date from Kurt Weill's Kleine Dreigroschen-musik (1929) to Dello Joio's Variations on a Medieval Tune...
...Band's major flaw throughout the concert was an amateurish negligence about watching the conductor. There is little one can complain about in Walker's conducting; it is to him that much of the music's vigor and sensitivity of phrasing must be attributed. However, one felt he had to fight to keep the Band at the tempos he wanted...
...great gusto, "One of the few things I really like here is the Harvard Band." Considering the adventuresomeness of the program, that's quite a compliment. For once the Band managed to communicate a sense of enthusiasm throughout the program, not just when playing the old standards. As a concert Band, the HUB is definitely coming...