Word: windings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty was provided by a greatly expanded orchestra, including many new faces, and blessed with a huge and excellent string section. The strings found a deserved complement in the virtuosic wind group which pulled off Stravinsky's exacting Symphonies for Wind Instruments with breath-taking precision and intonation. Nor did Mr. Senturia let technical concerns overshadow the equally crucial matters of vitality and awareness which should be the major strengths of any good amateur ensemble...
...presented by the HRO this year also will differ from the patterns of previous years. "We hope to present short programs of music of more than common interest and less than common knowledge," Senturia states. For example, in Friday's concert, the Orchestra will present Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments," "a particularly uncompromising piece," Senturia's own arrangement for strings of Bach's six-part Ricercar, from "The Musical Offering," plus the Beethoven concerto...
With the return of Jake Crouthamel and captain Bill Gundy to full time duty and with its usual fanatically tough line up front, Dartmouth was clearly the superior team. With the added advantage of having the heavy 25-mile-per-hour wind at their backs for three quarters of the game, Dartmouth handily managed to put over a second period touchdown and a fourth period field goal...
Dartmouth put the game completely out of reach when it salvaged a peteredout drive with a 25-yard field goal by tackle Ben Urban. Having had the wind at their backs for half the game, the Indians moved against it to the Crimson 18 in the last period. Stalled by a penalty and a momentarily tight Crimson defense they needed nine yards for the first down...
Freakishly the wind reversed itself, Urban trotted out to the huddle, did his work, and the outcome of the game was assured. The Crimson produced a few sporadic and short lived drives which amounted to nothing...