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...however, nearly 50 members of the Glee Club flew the Atlantic (not on wings of song) for a six-week tour of Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany and England. There they will sing around 30 concerts in as many cities and towns under the leadership of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music (who, by the way, served as accompanist for the group's 1921 tour...
Although an American chorus will no longer be a novelty for European ears, the Club is still bound to make a strong impression, for at least two reasons. One is the unsurpassed level of college singing that Woodworth has consistently elicited in recent years...
...Woodworth is not content just to perform any old music well. He quite rightly takes seriously his role of un-official cultural ambassador, and has gone to great pains to select a repertory of 55 works that is unique in breadth and quality...
...chorus can Renaissance and Baroque masters as boast a better corpus of Renaissance and Baroque music. But of special importance is the prominence given to serious pieces by Contemporary Americans. The American works that have reached Europe through other groups have for the most part been of inferior quality. Woodworth wants to show Europe that this country is producing fine choral music of real substance and value. So he is scheduling works by such well-known names as Randall Thompson '20, Virgil Thompson '22 and Irving Fine '37, along with pieces by little known but talented men like Henry Leland...
...Bach's B-Minor Mass, into the happy and festive key of D-Major. Performance enormously impressive. First two parts conducted by Cornelia Davenport, last three by Allan Miller. Choristers obviously very carefully rehearsed; tone lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount of the overall impressiveness due to the marvelous parts for trumpets and timpani-now menacing, now jubilant. James Armstrong at the organ a most effective substitute for string orchestra...