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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has not lost the sheen and precision it acquired last year when Michael Senturia '58, was named its new conductor. At their concert last night in Sanders, the HRO demonstrated once again its ability to come to grips with a large work and to conquer almost all of its demanding details...
...Trade Nocturnes Pour Orchestra by Debussy. It was good to hear this "Impressionist" masterpiece treated with a clear-headed approach that brought out the work's structural solidity. This was not the fog-bound Debussy, but rather the Cartesian Debussy. The essentially rationalist reading was handled excellently by Senturia's charges...
Particularly pleasing was the woman's chorus in the final section. The sung passages did not sound like the usual half-muttered versions so dear to most conductor's hearts, but rather had a youthfulness and brightness that went well with Senturia's straightforward interpretation...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 is the oldest continuous musical organization in the United States. Michael Senturia '58, is the conductor...
...most radical works on the program were not too successful, it is true but, even here, Mr. Senturia is to be heartily congratulated for his determination not only to present them but to present them as well as he did with an undergraduate orchestra. Those who let the program keep them away not only missed some engaging music but also missed a further demonstration of the H.R.O.'s increasing capabilities...