Word: woodworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glee Club will travel to Miami to sing at the meeting Friday night, G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, announced yesterday. This year marks the first time that the Glee Club has sung at an A.H.C. conference...
...Woody Woodworth of Music I fame leads the Glee Club and Choral Society, along with members of the Boston Symphony, in three Mozart vocal works. Charles Munch also will conduct the "Requiem" by Gabriel Faure. Early risers will get both for 60 cents at 2:15 today. Saturday at 8:30 p.m.--forget it unless you have a radio...
...greatness of these 350-year-old madrigals lies in the combination of lovely Elizabethan poetry and musical settings which preserve a consistent harmonic structure while observing equality of line. Each part, from soprano to bass, is melodic and fun to sing. Woodworth has long spoken of madrigals as after-dinner music, and on Friday he proved his point by placing his 16 best singers around a table for several of the pieces. Morley's My Bonny Lass and Shoot, False Love sounded especially buoyant in this arrangement...
...seldom forced, and the diction was marvellous. I could understand almost every word, even in the contrapuntal sections. By itself the Radcliffe Choral Society sang three madrigals very well indeed. The best of these was Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing by Weelkes. In some of the madrigals, however, Woodworth conducted with too much rubato. In this music the note values always slow down when the text demands it; the beat of the conductor need never do the job of the composer...
...choral writing, and when his music is sung well the result is memorable. The concert closed with Trois Chansons by Ravel. These are a kind of musical sandwich, with a lovely lyrical piece between two witty, ironic and bitter-sweet choral songs. The performances were again excellent. If Woodworth can train his full choruses as well as he has trained the smaller groups, audiences will really have to sit up this spring and summer...