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...have ambitions, but we are secure in our achievements." That was the tone of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert last Saturday evening. For his final performance as conductor of the HRO, Michael Senturia chose a difficult program, and directed it smoothly, accurately, and with unusual deliberation...
...other triumph of the evening was Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony, No. 41. The HRO displayed its impressively solid strings and wood-wind ensemble. Senturia followed a sharp initial attack with a fine, deliberate tempo. He concluded the fun of the third movement (Allegretto) with a stately allargando. And in the fugal stacking of themes at the final coda, he delineated each important voice...
...concert also marked Michael Senturia's last regular concert in Sanders Theatre as director of the HRO. It was a brilliant farewell. While Kogan faced the orchestra feet together, like a conductor, Senturia spread his feet, hunched his shoulders, and went at Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony like a boxer. An incredibly sharp attack started the symphony; the strings, warmed up, sounded as one. Senturia shifted tempi with assurance when the increased excitement demanded change. In the middle movements, although the fourth horn had problems, the woodwind solos over a string obbligato were exceptionally good for the HRO. Senturia took...
This precedent ushered in the faculty appointment of Michael Senturia as conductor of the HRO in 1959. Nevertheless, the department wished to move slowly, and stipulated that his term as instructor not be renewable. But Senturia's work with the orchestra had raised its quality remarkably, and last spring the orchestra's officers and the faculty committee agreed that his successor, to be chosen very shortly, will hold a normal instructorship capable of promotion...
Edward L. Pattullo, secretary of the CEP, yesterday pointed out the differences between the cases of Swahill and Spanish Ba. He admitted that the basic demand for the Spanish course came form the HRO, but, he said, "Spanish is language in which you can go on. It couldn't be possible to go further in Swahill--the course would be strictly a service offering...