Word: shostakovitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three music groups here are offering selections of their works on phonograph records. The cast of Radcliffe's "Drumbeats" will record five songs Monday, the choir has recorded a selection of sacred music, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra made a disc of its performances of Shostakovitch's Fifth Symphony...
...they received after this concert last night. Starting off enthusiastically with Haydn's Symphony No. 88, they combined with the Glee Club and Choral Society in a vigorous playing of the Bach Magnificat, and capped the evening with a rousing, rafter-knocking performance of the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovitch. The Orchestra members proved that inspired, as they were last night, they can do a fine job with a difficult program...
Russell Stanger, the orchestra's new conductor, obviously deserved much of the credit for the players' inspiration. He produced some fine sounds from the group; his interpretations of the Haydn and back were sound, while the Shostakovitch was often exciting...
...Radcliffe Orchestra and Clubs Clans at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sander Theatre. His teacher, Richard Burgin, associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, came specially before leaving on a tour to hear his protege at Monday's press rehearsal. "Excellent," he exclaimed to Stanger in the middle of Shostakovitch's "Fifth Symphony...
Besides this combined effort with the glee club, the orchestra will also perform the Symphony Number five by Shostakovitch and Haydn's 99th Symphony...