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Perhaps, too, of course, Mr. Andrew Schenck, the Bach Society's new conductor, might have done something to enliven the evening. Mr. Schenck is blessed with one of the most competent small (and largely collegiate) orchestras in the country--it is hampered neither by ghostly strings nor awkward brass--but like Haydn and his themes, he often seems unable to decide what he wants to do with his musicians...
...Symphony Orchestra toured the country without a conductor after Toscanini's death. Mr. Schenck, who must see himself as a William Dobbin, should not accord the departed Joel Lazar the same rites. The Bach Society Orchestra this year stands in considerable need of a conductor, and one who will be both meticulous and despotic...
...trip the HRO will play the works of local composers and perform with local soloists. It will encourage local musicians to join it in rehearsal, Conductor Michael Senturia '58 said yesterday. Senturia felt the orchestra could in this way avoid the insulated feeling that normally surrounds a group of professional musicians on tour...
Inherent Logic. The Gregg Smith Singers have a fast-growing reputation in Europe, but they are virtually unknown in the U.S. Chicago-born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also...
...always labored under a deficit, times are getting better: Stravinsky heard the singers in Los Angeles in 1959, was so impressed that he conducted them in his Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms. Columbia will soon issue a Gregg Smith album. As the group's popularity grows, Conductor Smith thinks it will accomplish his most cherished ambition: to popularize modern music through "the inherent logic of the human voice...