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Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
Senturia has developed from a gifted oboe virtuoso into an able conductor, and his occasional stiffness of gesture will go in time. He should, however, curb his Toscaninian urge to sing with the orchestra. He gives beats and cues clearly; and I imagine it is easy to play under him in a performance, although the superlative results point to a properly stern taskmaster in rehearsal...
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