Word: swoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Yannatos, presently musical director and conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Chautauqua Institute, will succeed Swoboda next year. Swoboda is retiring from the Faculty in June...
...Henry Swoboda will be conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for the last time at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...Fournier never missed. Up high, his nearly faultless harmonics combined with the violins and bells to produce one of the delightful, but inconsequential, aural tricks in which the concerto abounded. His extended cadenza in the third movement lacked raw strength, but it was exquisite. Why he or conductor Henry Swoboda put their talents and the HRO's into this concerto is hard to understand...
Under the baton of Dr. Henry Swoboda, the orchestra will present the first New England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...
...past, the HRO has seemed willing to trade fewer professional performances like Friday's Dvorak for more real musical adventure than it has this year. One cannot say whether the reluctance to barter this year rests with Swoboda or the members of the orchestra, but one can hope that next year, Swoboda, having consolidated a fine orchestra, will lead it on to modern works that deserve its talents...