Harvard-'Cliffe Orchestra Announces 1950-51 Plans

Four Cambridge concerts, a tour of Southern Women's Colleges, and enthusiastic practice under a new conductor highlight the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's plans for the coming year, according to Harvey J. Weiss '51, vice-President of Pierian Sodality, sponsors of the Orchestra.

Under its new conductor, Russell Stanger, the orchestra will perform December 6 and 7 in Sanders Theater, in a program which features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah.

Will Play Shostakovitch

Besides this combined effort with the glee club, the orchestra will also perform the Symphony Number five by Shostakovitch and Haydn's 99th Symphony.

Two more concerts will come in the Spring. On March 22, Lucille Cummings, recording artists for Victor who has sung with the Boston Symphony, will be the featured soloist. Then the final concert (with a program still undetermined) will come during the first week in May.

In addition to the Cambridge concerts, the orchestra will tour Washington and Virginia during Spring vacation, performing at several women's colleges.

This year's orcestra promises to be the finest at the College in recent years, according to Weiss. Conductor Stanger has studied with Koussevitsky and Leonard Bernstein, and is now a student of Richard Burgin (assistant conductor of the B.S.O.). Besides conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mr. Stanger is also assistant conductor of the New England Symphony.

103 Musicians

The new conductor's enthusiasm toward the coming season was mirrored by the orchestra members when 103 instrumentalists showed up for sight reading rehearsal Tuesday night.

This year's violin section (often the weakspot in amateur orchestras) is generally quite strong. The concertmaster, Deno Geanakaplos 3G, was a first violinist in the Minneapolis symphony Orchestra. Also, many of the University's better violinists who have been unable to attend in the past years are playing with the orchestra now.

Rehearsal time this year will be Mondays for winds, Tuesdays for strings, and Thursdays for full orchestra. (Except when the B.S.O. performs on Thursday.) First practice is tonight at 7:15 in Sanders Theater. Pierian officials urge all interested students to arrange for auditions at the time.