Word: woodworth
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...finest choral groups in the U.S. The man who started to lead the Harvards to serious music in 1912 (despite the anguished protests of many an old alumnus) was Conductor Archibald Thompson Davison. The man who has kept them up to the mark is G. Wallace ("Woody") Woodworth, and last week he too celebrated an anniversary: his 25th year as glee club conductor. Woody himself went out for the club as a Harvard freshman, was firmly turned down by Conductor Davison, who told him: "With your ear, you ought to be playing drums in the band." He nevertheless wangled...
Much of the glee club's effectiveness derives from Woody Woodworth's genius for making the choral literature exciting. A sharp-featured, intense man, he throws himself into his work with such flamboyant enthusiasm that one Boston Symphony musician watching him conduct last week said wonderingly: "Who does he think he is-Koussevitzky?" Conductor...
Randall Thompson avoided the language problem in the Alleluia, as Woodworth observes in his notes, by using only the single word of the title. But he met it squarely in setting his mass to an English text, and he emerges triumphant. Except for an excessive diminuendo on "invisible," every word is perfectly set forth in the music, especially in the Gloria and the Credo, while each of the various parts is uniquely treated, the mass remains a unified and very beautiful whole...
...Choral Society with G. Wallace Woodworth conducting, opened with the full chorus singing Hassler's Cantate Domino from Sacri Concentus. For such a large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles...
...Samuel H. Beer will speak July 11 and 12; The Reverend E. Spencer Parsons on July 15, 16, and 17; and Mr. John U. Munro on July 19, and 19. President Frederick May Eliot of the American Unitarian Association will speak July 22 through July 24. Professor G. Wallace Woodworth will speak July 25 and 26; and The Reverend C. Howard Wallace will fill the final engagement for July speaking...