Word: senturia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems not, even after several hearings, to have justification for its length or most of its peculiar characteristics. The performance suggested that Mr. Senturia had steered the group well through the score's most complicated sections. Only a lovely oboe introduction to the first movement by Carl Schlaikjer seemed anything more than competent. But then, in this piece, a competent performance constitutes a major achievement in itself...
...immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria. The H.R.O. and Mr. Senturia acquitted themselves well as they put the often unrelated elements of Mr. Cutler's score into shape. The soloists, Jenneke Barton and Thomas Beveridge, kept on pitch throughout and negotiated their at times pointlessly demanding music with skill...
...orchestra than does a formal concerto, combines evocations of Spain and its festive music with the muted orchestral transparencies of French Impressionist compositions. The orchestra and its marvellously accomplished soloist gave the work a stunning reading. The rapport between them was evident from the first and, throughout both Mr. Senturia and Miss Vosgerchian brought out DeFallas alteration between Latin passion and delicate poetry with judicious phrasing and well-varied tone coloring...
...most radical works on the program were not too successful, it is true but, even here, Mr. Senturia is to be heartily congratulated for his determination not only to present them but to present them as well as he did with an undergraduate orchestra. Those who let the program keep them away not only missed some engaging music but also missed a further demonstration of the H.R.O.'s increasing capabilities...
...presence of Mr. Senturia as the orchestra's conductor, together with the acquisition of so much new talent has made a great difference in the morale and performing quality of the group. Mr. Senturia has reached a good balance between preparation and spontaneity, between attention to concerts and the more private activity of sight-reading in rehearsals. His conducting is not subtle, but it is rhythmically sure, as was shown in the complicated Stravinsky pieces. But much more important is the sense of enthusiasm which he communicates to the players, which is reflected back to the audience in performances that...