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...disappointed and alarmed by the review of The Messiah in Monday's CRIMSON. Whatever may be the merits of his musical objections. Mr. Litfield renders a severe disservice to the cause of student concert productions here. He complains that"... the Pierian Sodality was fooled into thinking that a Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time." The orchestra held nine rehearsals, hired the best available choral conductor, and treated us to the best solo quartet we've heard in Sanders. They went to the trouble of assembling a chorus. to accuse these students of neglect after so much...
These who have worked for the great improvement in this year's HRO have enriched the cultural resources of the Harvard community a good deal, and deserve commendation for their efforts. The record crowd in Sanders Theatre last Friday night was overwhelmingly satisfied with Pierian's efforts, and local audiences are not the least discriminating...
However, the Pierian Sodality was fooled into thinking that a Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time. Friday night's concert relied too heavily on traditional enthusiasm as a substitute for technical proficiency. After the tenor's Every valley shall be exalted, for instance, the chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed should follow as a natural extension of the aria. Conductor Alfred Nash Patterson permitted long gaps of silence which destroyed the relationship. He misconceived some musical details as well. Instead of grouping the dotted rhythms of the overture in melodic phrases...
Under Mr. Patterson the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra combined spirit and inaccuracy to sound like a typical group of musical amateurs. The strings often played out of tune in both the Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto. Vigorously conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, the concerto showed off Pierian's excellent first desk players, but they were hampered by the in-accuracies of those behind them...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Pierian Sodality Chorus will present Handel's "Messiah," including the entire Christmas portion and Corelli's Christmas Concerto in Sanders Theatre today...