Word: senturia
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...have ambitions, but we are secure in our achievements." That was the tone of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert last Saturday evening. For his final performance as conductor of the HRO, Michael Senturia chose a difficult program, and directed it smoothly, accurately, and with unusual deliberation...
...Senturia conducting Webern and Mozart was prodigy performing prodigies...
Performing the 1928 version, Senturia had to achieve both the transparency demanded by the contrapuntal lines in the fifth piece and the massive roar called for by the ending to the fourth. He achieved both. He brought forth each instrumental entrance with discerning care, and he chose tempos that made each piece cohere individually, and with the other five...
...Handel's 'Concerto Grosso in A Minor,' Op. 6, No. 4, Senturia extracted something rare in student orchestras: a solid string sound. Solos by Lawrence Franko, concertmaster, with the harpsichord, came out clean, vigorous, and straight-forward...
...concert was not one to arouse the super-refined connoisseur of performance from his hi-fi den, but it did sell out Sanders Theatre. Miss Oppens, Senturia, Kogan, and the orchestra deserved the audience...