Word: hro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra opens its '75-76 season this Friday night. Judging from rumors emanating from HRO members and affilliates, it might be well worth interrupting your masked Halloween ball for a couple of hours of uplifting spirits in Sanders Theater. The orchestra is bigger and possibly better than last year, and the tasteful programming should appeal to a wider variety of listeners than it has in the past...
...HRO concludes its ambitious and successful season this Friday with a concert featuring Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Schoenberg's marvelous Five Pieces for Orchestra and El Deseo Sagrado, the piece which won the HRO's composition competition, will fill out the program...
MEDIOCRE MUSIC poses a major challenge to performers. It takes a special sense of drams and dash to transform a collection of second rate ideas into a satisfying, enjoyable performance. Last Friday, violinist Lynn Chang and the HRO showed just how it is done in a riveting performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto...
...INTEREST of musical merit, Brahms's Fourth Symphony comprised the second half of the program. Flaws of intonation and ensemble marred the HRO's performance of this difficult standard work. But these were easily forgiven in the context of the HRO's energetic and enthusiastic playing. Dr. Yannatos never let the playing degenerate into a well-intentioned shambles, but firmly structured this potentially unwieldy masterpiece...
...even a poor performance of Brahms's Fourth, which this was not, there is still Brahms's music to admire. The value of the Sibelius, however, depends largely on the performance; the music cannot supply the necessary coherence and drive. Through their artistic labor, Chang and the HRO created an overwhelming sense of value" where little might have existed...