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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The Cleveland Orchestra-One Man's Triumph" will focus on Conductor George Szell in rehearsal and in concert...
...whole, Conductor John Ferris and his choir succeeded in bringing coherence out of this complexity, primarily by maintaining a consistently high level of precision. The choir's tone was excellently blended, and its diction surprisingly good. St. Paul's Men's Schola provided the plainsong from the balcony, to the great advantage of the total effort...
...impression: it is never clear whether it is a chamber group, a small symphony orchestra, or simply a label under which disparate musical activities take place. The first half of last Saturday's concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound was impressively rich, exceeding what I would have expected from...
THOMAS C. HORNE; Conductor-music director, Ubu Roi and Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Guys and Dolls; Hasty Pudding Theatricals; H-R Young Democrats; Varsity Debate; Harvard Review; CRIMSON editorial board...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra showed remarkably few first-time jitters as it opened its season Friday night. Dancing in slow motion through the rich progressions of the Prelude and Love Death from Wagner Tristan and Isolde, it contrasted beautifully the mellifluous soft passages and the surging climax. Conductor James Yannatos directed the beginning with such strictness that the beat became too prominent in the phrasing, but the consequent stiffness vanished as both the music and the performers warmed...