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...have created." says Conductor George Szell. "an instrument perfectly suited to express my artistic intentions." Szell's instrument is the 104-member Cleveland Orchestra, which he designed as a kind of hybrid-a cross-breeding of American precision and cleanliness of tone with European warmth and temperament. Satisfied that he has under his baton "personnel as good as any conductor could wish for." Szell has long since satisfied his artistic intention. When he brought his great orchestra to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, it put on the kind of performance demanded by a conductor who wants...
This change in music at Harvard has in part come from a closer contact with the faculty, Senturia in particular. (It is, however, an open question how an older conductor would follow in his steps in this respect.) Greater attendance of faculty at student concerts is a small item but a significant one, for it springs from a new seriousness of students which stimulates faculty interest in return. Performance is still extra-curricular, but it is now closer to the faculty itself...
...about performance--what place should faculty members hold in student music groups--now appears near resolution. Both Archibald Davison and G. Wallace Woodworth directed the Glee Club as invited unofficial advisors; the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra prized its independence from the faculty and paid as well as appointed its own conductor. But a move for closer collaboration came to a head when the directorship of the Glee Club changed hands, and Elliot Forbes arrived as the first music professor to both conduct and teach...
This precedent ushered in the faculty appointment of Michael Senturia as conductor of the HRO in 1959. Nevertheless, the department wished to move slowly, and stipulated that his term as instructor not be renewable. But Senturia's work with the orchestra had raised its quality remarkably, and last spring the orchestra's officers and the faculty committee agreed that his successor, to be chosen very shortly, will hold a normal instructorship capable of promotion...
...great Milstein performances are their flash and fire. Milstein is willing to take chances-on trip-hammer tempos, flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume. His taste as a listener runs to chamber music: symphony concerts, says Violinist Milstein, are "cold excitement, because the man who makes the music-the conductor-doesn't make the sound...