Word: program
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the first and last pieces on the program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs...
...second half of the program was devoted to Manuel De Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Luise Vosgerchian as piano soloist. This luminous work, which uses the piano more as a part of the orchestra than does a formal concerto, combines evocations of Spain and its festive music with the muted orchestral transparencies of French Impressionist compositions. The orchestra and its marvellously accomplished soloist gave the work a stunning reading. The rapport between them was evident from the first and, throughout both Mr. Senturia and Miss Vosgerchian brought out DeFallas alteration between Latin passion and delicate poetry...
...most radical works on the program were not too successful, it is true but, even here, Mr. Senturia is to be heartily congratulated for his determination not only to present them but to present them as well as he did with an undergraduate orchestra. Those who let the program keep them away not only missed some engaging music but also missed a further demonstration of the H.R.O.'s increasing capabilities...
Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...
...long-standing obstacle to an imaginative non-departmental tutorial program has been the identification of Honors with intelligence. Since Honors, however, continues to have its traditional implication of intensive concentration, intelligence becomes synonymous with heavy concentration. In fact, students in the Social Sciences are only recommended for Honors in General Studies if it is physically impossible for them to complete the Honors program...