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...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...
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...
...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...
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...
...string quartet; but its material is wholly original--the melodic declaration often seems closer to the manner of Arnold Schoenberg. Mr. Lewin has employed considerable economy in composition, and the piece is concise, clear and very pleasing; the wind writing, in particular, shows considerable delicacy and precision. Mr. Senturia and his orchestra brought to the work the same assurance and competence that marked the entire program; their flowing performance complemented the Essay. They really can be quite wonderful, indeed...