Word: woodworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting yesterday, the 100-year-old Glee Club heard G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, announce his resignation, because, he said, "a quarter of a century is enough." He joined the HGC as assistant accompanist in 1921, and was named assistant conductor in 1925, as well as conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society. In 1933, upon the resignation of Archibald "Doc" Davison, he was named conductor of the HGC. In the summer of 1956, Woodworth led the Club on a triumphant concert tour of Europe, its first visit there since...
...Woodworth will take a sabbatical leave from the University next year, and will return in January, 1959, to take up his appointment as Lowell Television Lecturer on WGBH-TV. The conductor, who has presided enthusiastically over Music 1,--which will still be given next year--will again teach that course in 1959-60, as well as three half-courses for music non-concentrators. "I look forward to participating in the expansion of the music program," he said yesterday...
Several hours after his announcement to the Glee Club, Woodworth gathered the two musical groups on the steps of Widener to sing the first Yard concert of the year, a series of choruses from the Bach B-Minor Mass. An estimated crowd of 1,000 stood shivering in the cold wind, until, at the start of the "Resurrexit," the sun broke through the clouds...
...Harvard Glee Club is scheduled today to approve the appointment of Eliot Forbes as acting conductor next year during G. Wallace Woodworth's sabattical next year. Nominations for Friday's election of officers will be made at the same meeting...
...spite of all the mishaps which marred the performance (at one point the entire performance had to stop and start some measures back), there was also a great deal of beauty. The Requiem is long, even with two movements omitted, and often repetitive. Professor Woodworth did not allow it to fall asleep. He used the chorus in such a way as to provide the greatest possible contrast to the organ; and even if the chorus has sometimes sounded more polished, its performance was, under the conditions, nothing to be ashamed...