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...members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra well deserved the long ovation they received after this concert last night. Starting off enthusiastically with Haydn's Symphony No. 88, they combined with the Glee Club and Choral Society in a vigorous playing of the Bach Magnificat, and capped the evening with a rousing, rafter-knocking performance of the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovitch. The Orchestra members proved that inspired, as they were last night, they can do a fine job with a difficult program...
...performance of the Magnificat was the most consistently enjoyable event of the evening. The soloists: Eleanor Davis, Eunice Albert, Paul Tibbets, and Hughes Cuenod were all excellent although Cuenod faltered somewhat in high passages. The alto section was rather weak, but the chorus as a whole sang precisely and well. Their singing showed thorough preparation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Glee Clubs, with the combined Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will present Bach's "Magnificat" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...Bach's "Magnificat" will be the feature work presented at the annual pre-Christmas concert given by the Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee club, and Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra, Vera Lorch '51, president of Choral Society, announced yesterday...
Under its new conductor, Russell Stanger, the orchestra will perform December 6 and 7 in Sanders Theater, in a program which features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah...