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Four undergraduates will also address the Alumni group in the morning and each one will discuss a particular House activity. R. Nicholas Cowell '58 will speak on Junior Coomon Room Activities, Michael A. Senturia '58 is to discuss Music, Allerton J. Cushman's subject is Drama, while Carl Falb, Jr. '58 will talk on House sports...
...program opened with Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, which conductor Michael Senturia kept at once precise and full-blooded, with especially rich, driving tone from the cellos. It was too bad the original idea of using recorders fell through, but no one could have wished for finer flute playing than that of Cynthia Crain and Fritz Kraber. Ruth Miller was mostly successful with the fiendishly difficult solo violin part, and the performance as a whole came within only a few slips in intonation of being masterful...
...Radcliffe Freshman Chorus, the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, and the Bach Society Orchestra performed Gabrieli and Bach Sunday afternoon in Sanders Theater. A brass choir under the direction of Michael Senturia played the "Sonata Piane Forte," from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597), by Giovanni Gabrieli, and then chorus and orchestra joined in performing Bach's Magnificat in D, conducted by Allen Miller. The Gabrieli went well, with very few of those bloopers which are the bane of brass playing. The contrasts, "pian e forte," intended by the composer could have been brought out more effectively...
Several instrumental soloists distinguished themselves, among them: flutists, Sue Alder and Cynthia Crane in the "Et misericordia" and "Esurientes" sections, and Michael Senturia, who played the oboe obligato during the soprano aria, "Quia respexit." The string section as a whole produced remarkably good intonation and tone quality. It is not surprising that the chorus was not quite up to the caliber of the orchestra since the singers were all freshmen. An unfortunate case of extreme flatting occured in the course of the woman's chorus "Suscepit Israel...
...Senturia has developed from a gifted oboe virtuoso into an able conductor, and his occasional stiffness of gesture will go in time. He should, however, curb his Toscaninian urge to sing with the orchestra. He gives beats and cues clearly; and I imagine it is easy to play under him in a performance, although the superlative results point to a properly stern taskmaster in rehearsal...