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...Wallace Woodworth '24 succeeded Davison as conductor of the chorus as he was later to succeed him as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. But under the present conductor of the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch, the Glee Club and choral society will never again perform pieces in the same grandiose manner to which they became accustomed under Koussevitzky. The change came in 1950, shortly before they were to assist the BSO in a Pension Fund performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
...have conducted choruses in many pairs of the world, but never with the pleasure that I fund in working with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral society. They are young, intelligent, and, above all, enthusiastic. From their remarkable conductor, G. Wallace Woodworth, they have learned to lover music and to love to sing. I am proud to conduct their 100th concert with the Boston symphony Orchestra. It is a joy to make music with them...
Professor G. Wallace Woodworth has trained his Radcliffe group in the fundamental importance of vowels and consonants. He insists on carefully rolled r's and intense long vowels because, apart from textual clarity, only such treatment of the words can shape ensemble singing into a live and exciting sound. Closely related is his distinction between "covered" tone for soft passages and "open" tone for loud. Radcliffe's precise production of each type keeps the quieter music always vivid and makes for unusually brilliant climaxes. Above all, the Choral Society aims to entertain its audience; if their zeal occasionally sacrifices subtlety...
Amherst conductor Charles W. Ludington seems not to share Professor Woodworth's views. Largely because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close...
...Council. The rare broadcasting fervor that drove such stolid institutions as Harvard or the Symphony to contribute unrestricted funds to a fledgling radio station must have reached the staff and performers as well: WGBH-FM soon attained national recognition for several top-notch programs, including Professor G. Wallace Woodworth's "Tomorrow's Symphony...