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Presumably the orchestra has improved since it was first founded four years ago; Mr. Victor Manusevitch, the conductor, walked into the first rehearsal with the score of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony under his arm to find himself the director of 20 instrumentalist, eight of them flautists. Now, at any rate, the orchestra has at least one of everything and a respectable number of string players. Unfortunately, most of them should have never have been let in sight of any orchestra: the woodwinds, en bloc, refused to stay in tune with the rest of the orchestra; not that one was often...
...then there was the program itself. Mr. Manusevitch must be vividly aware of the limitations of his group, and yet he chose to play two works that were obviously beyound the capabilities of his musicians and one piece that was beneath the contempt of his audience. (The two were Bartok's Third Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E; the one, a Symphony in D by a French composer of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras named Etienne-Nicolas Mehul.) Perhaps Mr. Manusevitch simply can't think of anything else to do with his orchestra...
...then there was the Tchaikovsky. This was a complete riot. Mr. Manusevitch's interpretation of this symphony obviously traces to the last three chords in Mozart's Musical Joke...
Founded and conducted by Victor Manusevitch, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the body has presented a significant series of concerts to Cambridge audiences since...
...Never for a moment lacking in inspiration, the symphony is a product of Haydn's thirties, a tempestuous, tragic utterance that ought to give new ideas about this composer to those unfamiliar with his early work. Played with vigor and affecting lyricism, it was the sort of performance Mr. Manusevitch can, and hopefully will give us in the spring concert, which includes a contemporary work and a Handel harp concerto. The Orchestra's shortcomings are primarily technical, and its purely musical potential is substantial indeed...