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Handel's "Messiah" will be performed in part by the Chorus Pro Musica and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders Theatre tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. Russell Stanger will conduct...
...performance, the Chorus Pro Musica will join the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Russell Stanger will lead the group in the Christmas music of Handel's "Messiah," while Alfred Bash Patterson, director of the Chorus Pro Musica, will conduct Shutz's "Magnificat...
...opening concert last Thursday demonstrated again that there is a group of enthusiastic, intelligent young musicians in the University community who like to play and who fear nothing. The performances, although uneven, were definitely higher than the usual student level, and there were moments of real brilliance. Russell Stanger and Aaron Copland shared the conductor's duties, an innovation which was not totally successful...
...unless it plays with precision and delicacy. Heaviness in the string section and poor balance between soloists and orchestra resulted in a performance of this masterpiece that sagged badly at times. The soloists, however, did an excellent job, and Aaron Johnson's clean, rich clarinet tone was outstanding. Russell Stanger, beginning his second season with the orchestra, conducted the work in the first two movements as if it were by Richard Strauss. Only in the last movement did conductor, orchestra, and soloists loosen up enough to capture some of the Mozartian good-humor that makes this piece a perennial favorite...
...Stanger returned after intermission to conduct Franck's D Minor Symphony. This old favorite offers numerous interpretative problems, most of which the young conductor solved adequately. He ignored some of the details--thus sparing the audience from the excessive chromatics in melody and harmony which can make the music tedious--and gave a broad, sweeping rendition, powerfully conceived and delivered. However, this de-emphasis of detail sank to downright sloppiness in the second movement. Intonation was foul, pick-ups inaccurate, and the melodic line sounded jerky...