Word: senturia
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...shirt-sleeved conductor raised his arms, and the 85-member Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra began the introduction to Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. For Michael Senturia '58, summa graduate in music and former conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra, long weeks of practice have gone into preparation for the HRO's Friday evening concert, his debut before the critical Cambridge audience as the new conductor of the Orchestra...
...move from the Bach Society to the HRO, however, Senturia took the long route around: Gaining experience in Munich through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...
...Corporation has approved the appointment of Michael C. Senturia '58 as instructor in music and conductor of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, it was learned yesterday...
...Senturia, who graduated Summa cum Laude in Music, will instruct Music, 253 a graduate level course in orchestration He will be the only member of the Department without a Masters Degree according to John M. Ward '43, Chairman of the Music Department...
...Last year, when he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra, Senturia did a fine job," commented Ward. "He is a superb musician and he acted in a selfless way, interested in the orchestra rather than in himself as conductor...