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...special group of judges was asked to study the scores and select works for two appealing, well-balanced programs. After three weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...
...Mandelbaum's Flute Sonata received the outstanding performance of the evening. Suzanne Heckman and accompanist Ann Besser played with warmth and ease. The third movement, a gay vivace, received an especially spirited reading. The music itself is essentially jyrical, without being discursive. The composer's style is contemporary but not needlessly dissonant, and he a voids nearly all of the melodic and harmonic cliches...
...program included works by John H. Davison 1G, Joel Mandelbaum '53, Yehudi Wyner 1G, Leland H. Proctor (Special Student), Victor Yellin 2G, and Robert W. Moevs...
Carl A. Wagner '53 was elected film services chairman, and Walter C. Carrington '52, Joel Mandelbaum '53, and Robert H. Langston '52, members at large...
...Joel Mandelbaum gave an energetic, if somewhat officious, direction to the orchestra, a motley collection of strings and wind. The overture gave promise of an uncomfortable evening, but after the curtain opened the musicians settled down and provided a steady and lively enough accompaniment to the singers...