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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will leave tomorrow night for a four-day rehearsal session in New Hampshire before starting on their trip to Mexico. The orchestra has been given a music camp site where the students will "practice like mad," HRO conductor Michael C. Senturia '58 said...
Michael C. Senturia '53, instructor in Music and conductor of the HRO, will give several lecture-demonstrations with members of the orchestra in Mexican primary and secondary schools...
...other triumph of the evening was Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony, No. 41. The HRO displayed its impressively solid strings and wood-wind ensemble. Senturia followed a sharp initial attack with a fine, deliberate tempo. He concluded the fun of the third movement (Allegretto) with a stately allargando. And in the fugal stacking of themes at the final coda, he delineated each important voice...
...from Bach's Third Suite in D. Major had the misfortune to introduce dancers encumbered with awkward and ludicrous choreography. A troupe of rheumatic frogs would have been more graceful, although it must be added that soloist Richard Hendrik improved when the tempo picked up in the Gavottes, where Senturia got the orchestra to produce bouncy dynamic contrasts...
...Senturia and the orchestra had to struggle for their success, at least they struggled in rehearsal, not in the performance itself. The audience rewarded their achievement with a standing ovation, and the orchestra passed the honor on to its conductor with a plaque. The performance, both during the last three years and Saturday night, justified this twin accolade...