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...Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will take a month's leave of absence to conduct the choir of the Cocllia Society on a tour of France this spring...
...Although Stanger will conduct the orchestra in its March concert at Sanders Theatre he is not expected to lead it in the proposed tour during the spring vacation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra had its troubles Sunday night, but it still played well enough to make its opening concert of the season a successful one. As in previous years, conductor Russell Stanger based his program on inherent musical values rather than on case of performance...
This case of execution was noticeably lacking in the Mozart Symphony No. 39, which opened the program. Occasional wrong notes and faulty entrances are inevitable and excusable, but the plodding, unsubtle treatment of the first two movements was an interpretive mistake that Stanger should have corrected. The final movements went much better: the was doggedly--but not pedantically--precise, and the orchestra seemed to leap through the finale without taking a breath. The woodwinds sounded exceptionally good, blending with each other as well as with the rest of the orchestra...
Holmes retired as conductor of the orchestra in 1950 after serving 25 years in that position. He will return only for the one program tonight in place of the regular conductor, Russell Stanger. The sight-reading will include passages from Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony...