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...interested in a steady post in America any more," says American Conductor Dean Dixon. He has his reasons...
Dixon, 47, spends about a third of the year in Frankfurt, the remainder of his time racing by plane or in his own Volkswagen to performances with virtually every major orchestra in Europe. He is an extraordinarily accomplished guest conductor, a talent he had already well developed before he left home in the 1940s, with degrees from Juilliard and Columbia in his pocket. By then he had already collected kind reviews while leading such major U.S. orchestras as the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. Trouble was, he got no offers of a fulltime conducting post...
...Conductor Dixon is misinformed: the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, among major orchestras, all employ Negroes as fulltime members...
...have ambitions, but we are secure in our achievements." That was the tone of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert last Saturday evening. For his final performance as conductor of the HRO, Michael Senturia chose a difficult program, and directed it smoothly, accurately, and with unusual deliberation...
...Senturia and the orchestra had to struggle for their success, at least they struggled in rehearsal, not in the performance itself. The audience rewarded their achievement with a standing ovation, and the orchestra passed the honor on to its conductor with a plaque. The performance, both during the last three years and Saturday night, justified this twin accolade...