Word: hro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rumors that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) was planning to make a European tour later this year apparently led many members of the BSO to quit and switch over to the HRO, Royce W. Miller II '82, a BSO cellist, said yesterday before the meeting...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra had an interesting schedule last year, including performances of contemporary pieces conducted and discussed by the composers. These performance seminars are an ideal way of spreading the appeal and variety of so-called classical music to a vast audience. The HRO starts its season this year after appearing at an international orchestra competition in Berlin, but you can judge its competence for yourself this Saturday night in Sanders Theater, when James Yannatos conducts a program of Debussy, Verdi, Copland and Schumann. The programs for the rest of the year aren't quite as wide-ranging, but watch...
Elsewhere at Harvard, the Radcliffe Choral Society. Harvard Glee Club, Collegium Musicum and Graduate Chorale crowd the vocal scene. RCS, a choir of sixty women, is touring the British Isles next June, but before that, it will team up with the Glee Club, Collegium and HRO to perform Verdi's Requiem in April...
...HRO is one of two American orchestras chosen to represent the - U.S. in the annual competition. Other countries participating include the USSR, Japan and West Germany...
After they leave Berlin, the HRO members will give a concert at London's Royal College of Music for the Harvard Club before returning to Cambridge...