Word: hro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hinton's travels are paying off. The soft-spoken junior finished first in a December concerto competition held by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, thereby winning a spot on tonight's program with HRO at Sanders...
...winning the HRO contest, Hinton is characteristically modest. "I don't put too much weight on the results of competitions. There are so many subjective things that can enter into it--maybe you have a good day, maybe the judge happens to love the piece you're doing...
...HRO President Alec Garraway '90 is more liberal with congratulations. "It showed a tremendous amount of musical and technical prowess," Garraway says of Hinton's competition winning performance. "He picked a really exciting piece, very difficult to play...
Though he did not enter the HRO competition his first two years at Harvard, Hinton's success is not wholly unprecedented. He has played with both the Boston and Dallas Symphonies and participated in music festivals at both Aspen and Tanglewood...
Garraway, who will be president of the orchestra next year, says he hopes to encourage more Blacks to join HRO. "It's important to have a Black presence," he says...