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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent. Notably, poor string playing plagued the orchestra from time to time. This was especially evident in a marked fuzziness of the very first allegretto passages of Haydn's Symphony No. 99 and in several muddled string sections in the third and fourth movements of this same work. Michael Senturia conducted skillfully, but in spite of his efforts the exuberance of this fine symphony did not come across...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: HRO at Sanders | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

...trip the HRO will play the works of local composers and perform with local soloists. It will encourage local musicians to join it in rehearsal, Conductor Michael Senturia '58 said yesterday. Senturia felt the orchestra could in this way avoid the insulated feeling that normally surrounds a group of professional musicians on tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO Plans Two Month Concert Tour of Mexico | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

Restraint also marked the music and performance of Kent Kennan's Night Solilquy whose small scale manages to save it from cliched post-romanticism. Senturia's reserve eliminated the occasional triteness of the orchestral part, but on the other hand it weakened the score's build-up to a flute trill. Alex Ogle provided one of the really moving points in the evening with his supple runs and dynamic shadings...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 5/8/1961 | See Source »

...ability did not make a fool of the orchestra, for Senturia kept the lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance or an uncomfortable "hole," or else a passage competently played would lack lift and fall short of expressiveness...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 5/8/1961 | See Source »

HARVARD--RADCLIFFE CHESTRA, conducted by Senturia '58, will present a Concert is Sanders Theatre at P.M. MAUREEN FORREST (who surely deserves caps) sing Mahler's Five Last Songs; Suzanne Burke will Ravel's Piano Concerto In G; the orchestra will perform Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale, Kennan's Night Soliloquy, first-desk-man Alex Ogle as fiautist. Tickets: $1.00, $1.50, $2.50 at the Coop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALENDAR | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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