Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusually excited audience filled Sanders Theatre Friday night to welcome what might be termed the "new" Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra on the occasion of its opening concert this year, and the debut of its conductor, Michael Senturia. It was a triumph all around as the orchestra, after recent years of mixed success, proved itself to be one of Harvard's most important performing groups...
...first half of the concert, the orchestra divided, with the winds performing the Stravinsky and the strings showing their stuff on an arrangement of Bach's Ricecar a 6 from the Musical Offering. The main virtue of this arrangement was that it provided an effective showcase for the shining string tone the orchestra has developed. This was unfortunately offset by a thickness which often obscured the contrapuntal writing in favor of a rich sound, and an occasional slickness and unfaithfulness to style. While avoiding the purists' contention that nothing of Bach's should be performed in an arrangement--after...
Although Yehudi, 43, is the more famous of the Menuhins, there is plenty of evidence that 38-year-old Hephzibah shares his gifts. An infant prodigy like Yehudi, she was discouraged by the family from following a concert career, but was allowed to play occasionally with her brother in teen-age recitals that astounded critics with their power and perception. When she was 18 she married Lindsay Nicholas, brother of Yehudi's wife Nola, and retired with him to a 24,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia. Hephzibah returned briefly to the U.S. and European concert circuit...
...remarried (she was divorced from Husband No. 1 in 1954), Hephzibah lives in London with her sociologist husband and sometimes goes for weeks without touching the piano ("I don't believe in too much music"). But when she and Yehudi met in Paris for a concert two years ago and first tried the Bartok Sonata, they "sailed right through it; we astonished even ourselves...
...band had given a scheduled concert at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, earlier yesterday evening...