Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor G. Wallace Woodworth '24--known simply as "Woody" by the thousands of Harvard students to whom he gave musical guidance--died unexpectedly last Friday in Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was 66 years old.
Hundreds of other students benefitted from Woody's guidance in the various University musical organization he led. Woody conducted the Harvard Glee Club for 25 years, led the Radcliffe Choral Society for 33 years, and was University organist and choirmaster for 18 years. In 1958, however, he resigned these positions...
Woody did not confine his musical labors to Harvard: he frequently appeared as a guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave musical lessons over the radio, and directed numerous musical groups in tours throughout the United States and Europe.
For those who like thought-provoking theater, summer stages offer a few productions to counterpoint the staple fare of sugar-coated musical comedies:
Though critics have always suspected that some conductors studied under ballet masters, Yamash'ta's debt to the dance world is legitimate. A musical prodigy who took up drumming at the age of twelve, he became timpanist with the Kyoto and Osaka orchestras two years later, studying ballet...