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...program, to be conducted by Victor Manusevitch, will include the first local performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 47: Mo-zart's Piano Concerto in B-Flat, K. 456, with Israeli planist David Barillan as soloist: and Mendelssohn's rarely heard Symphony No. 1 in C-Minor...
...last time I heard Victor Manusevitch conduct the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was two years ago at another Summer School concert. Out of kindness to the orchestra (and to avoid painful memories) I shall not try to recall that occasion except to note how relieved I was yesterday evening to find Mr. Manusevitch's group so much improved...
...major work, the orchestra performed excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, combining these with readings from the play. Mr. Manusevitch had obviously rehearsed this wonderful music thoroughly; except for some wretched brass playing in an andante section, all of the movements were well done. The speakers were also good, particularly Daniel Seltzer, who read an opening chorus, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and some of Friar Laurence's best lines. Lynn Milgrim Phillips made a charming Juliet, and Paul Schmidt an adequate Romeo, though his relentless theatricality became a bit tiresome...
...concert will be conducted by Victor Manusevitch, the orchestra's music director...
...pagination of the printed program was all wrong, too, but I won't go into that. Perhaps after another four years of hard work Mr. Manusevitch's orchestra will have reached the point where they can honestly present a free public concert...