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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...
...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...
...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...