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...Russell Stanger concluded his second season as conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra with a well-varied and often exciting concert in Sanders Theatre Thursday night. Despite some rough moments, the orchestra gave its best performance of the year. When an amateur symphonic group programs music of professional calibre, there are bound to be egregious flaws. But there were surprisingly few of them Thursday night...
...position in a contest sponsored by the Pierian Sodality last fall, demonstrated a masterful, florid technique in what seemed to be an effortless performance. Her approach to the concerto was decidedly feminine. Emphasizing the somber, lyrical aspects of the work, her interpretation was a poctic and deeply personal one. Stanger's conducting of this piece showed great improvement over his previous efforts with Mozart. Combining delicacy with dynamism, he gave Miss Hoffman the line orchestral support she deserved...
...have a right to ask for the original instrumentation instead. A transcription, I believe, is valid only if it expresses the music in a new way. Thursday's rendition failed because it was little more than a muddy caricature of the real thing. The performance, however, was reasonably good. Stanger's directing lacked excitement because he didn't have much to work with...
...program ended with an exuberant but not always integrated account of Shostakovich's exuberant but not always integrated Ninth Symphony. Stanger, always at his best in modern works, did a marvelous job of bringing out the sophisticated buffoonery of the score, but the orchestra wasn't always up to it. The strings frequently lost track of each other. The brass section, which has been having trouble all year, missed too many notes. However, the percussion and woodwind sections were at their peaks; a few more rehearsals might have made the performance a total success...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will give its final concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Sanders Theatre. Russell Stanger, recently reappointed to conduct next year, will direct the Orchestra in the featured work, Shotsakovich's Ninth Symphony. Gilda Hoffman. Radcliffe '51, will solo in the Mozart Plano Concerto, No. 20 in D Minor K446. Miss Hoffman won the contest sponsored earlier this year by the Pierian Sodality and judged by Walter Piston, professor of Music...