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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has not lost the sheen and precision it acquired last year when Michael Senturia '58, was named its new conductor. At their concert last night in Sanders, the HRO demonstrated once again its ability to come to grips with a large work and to conquer almost all of its demanding details...
Particularly pleasing was the woman's chorus in the final section. The sung passages did not sound like the usual half-muttered versions so dear to most conductor's hearts, but rather had a youthfulness and brightness that went well with Senturia's straightforward interpretation...
...visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...
Minutes & Hours. Millar, 35, is one of three assistant conductors appointed by the Philharmonic this year. Although the orchestra formerly had a single assistant conductor, Bernstein decided a year ago to take on three promising younger men. His reason: young conductors have a hard time getting experience in the U.S. This fall, besides Millar, Bernstein chose Massachusetts-born Rus sell Stanger, 30, and Israeli-born Elyakum Shapira, 33. All three were in the hall at last week's concert when Bernstein walked offstage and announced that he was too ill to return to conduct the next scheduled work-Schumann...
...three Davids have had sound training (Millar at Berkeley, Stanger at the New England Conservatory, Shapira at Juilliard), and in 1951 Conductor Millar even founded his own orchestra, the San Francisco Little Symphony, while appearing in nightclubs on the side. He was first violin with the Vancouver Symphony in 1945 when Bernstein made a guest appearance with the orchestra, advised him to make conducting his career. How did Bernstein know he was any good? Said Lenny as he returned to his orchestra last week: "You can smell a conductor...