Word: hro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orchestral playing has a big part in the constant musical activity of Cambridge. Largest of the student organizations is the eighty-five piece Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Even the HRO is changing: in a burst of self-assertion, the orchestra has done away with the concerto contest. In its place is a concerto open-rehearsal, leaving more time for non-accompaniment orchestral playing. With Hindemith and Mahler on the opening concert October 29. Professor James Yannatos is presenting a different style from last year's HRO fare. The orchestra plans to work with the Loeb Drama Center in the spring...
...Gerald Moshell, is well rehearsed and effective, with the exception of some weakness in the violins and an occasional embarrassment from the born. Moshell has done a fine job in putting together and preparing an orchestra at the same time of year when two other operas and the HRO are also performing...
THERE IS something magical about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the way it seems to rise, Phoenix-like, out of its own ashes. The first chairs may graduate, the woodwinds resign, the bloodless old men on the Faculty Council hold back academic credit, but the HRO goes on, always attempting more ambitious projects...
Yesterday's program would have staggered a major symphony, but the HRO and the University Choir took it on without flinching. The Haydn Paukenmesse, the Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, and the lovely little Schutz choral piece, Lobe den Herren, Meine Seele are all challenging pieces. It is amazing, not that the players handled them so well, but that they could handle them...
Despite all that, the HRO and the University Choir have taken on a daring program and succeeded. It is refreshing that enough people are still dedicated to music to make up an orchestra, even though the Faculty seems determined to treat performing as the bastard child of the Music Department. While the Faculty Council keeps debating the issue of granting academic credit to the HRO, more and more players find that they cannot afford the time to perform with the Orchestra. If music dies at Harvard, it may be because the Faculty really didn't want it in the first...