Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conductor.--L. G. deI Castillo '14, Weld...
...first pop-concert of the year by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra will be given in the Living Room of the Union on November 23. Last year's conductor, C. D. Clifton '12, has been succeeded by L. del Castillo '14, who has arranged to orchestrate and present the new football songs, thereby co-operating with the work of the football song committee...
...movement from the Schumann concerto with fluent and well-founded technique, an excellent interpretive style, although he tended at times to undue self-restraint. The orchestra accompanied alike with freedom and self-control in a manner that reflected highly upon its skill as well as that of its conductor...
...concert as a whole reflects earnestness and unanimity on the part of the orchestra to carry out to the limit of their ability both the intentions of the composers represented, and the in- terpretive demands of the conductor. Mr. Clifton, who has already given signal proofs of his ability as a conductor, cannot be too highly praised for his admirable work with the Pierian Sodality. His beat is clear and firm, his readings of the several works presented were scholarly, poetic, and forceful by turns. He inspires his men to be classic, romantic and ultra-modern as the occasion demands...
...Clifton, the conductor, is to be warmly congratulated for the convincing results of his painstaking and inspiring training. The whole performance had an appearance of genuine artistic endeavor. The men succeeded in playing good music with a high degree of effectiveness, and, as all art is an approximation to an ideal, no higher praise can be given...