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Friday night's concert by the Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Groups was their best of the year. For a program divided between madrigals and modern works, G. Wallace Woodworth used only the small choruses from each group, numbering around 60. The reduction in quantity of singers brought about a sizable improvement in tonal quality, especially in the delicate madrigals...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor and James Edward Ditson professor of Music, and Archibald T. Davison '06, conductor of the 1921 trip and James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, emeritus, wrote to the alumni: "You know us well enough to appreciate that this trip is not planned as a holiday--we expect it to make musical history for Harvard and all the countries concerned...
...other works sung by the combined Glee Clubs needed much more rehearsal. The men's voices tended to drown out the sopranos and altos, and conductor G. Wallace Woodworth was forced to add a piano accompaniment to the lovely Weelkes madrigal As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending...
...David is a typical work, concentrating on simplicity and using modal harmonies. The style, however, is a little too conscious of choral effect. The European list singers contributed some fine singing in the Thompson chorus and were even better in Dvorak's Magdlein im Walde. Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth was in his stylistic element and led this pleasant piece to a faultless performance...
Included in the Friday night program are: "In Ecclesiis" by Gabriel, scenes from "Oedipus Rex" by Stravinski, and "The Last Word of David" by Randall Thompson, chairman of the Music Department. G. Wallace Woodworth will conduct this Friday night...