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...Wallace Woodworth '24,professor of Musci, will replace Archibald T. Davison '06, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, as lecturer in Music 1 next fall. Davison will retire this June after 45 years of instructing at Harvard...
...former pupil of Davison, Woodworth has said that he first got his interest in music from his instructor. "It was the powerful magnetism of Dr. Davison which attracted me towards music all through my undergraduate years," Woodworth commented. He became Choral Instructor at Radcliffe immediately after his graduation...
Professor Randall Thompson said yesterday he was glad Woodworth had agreed to take over the course. He called the choral instructor the logical successor to Davison. Thompson felt that although the new lecturer would probably change the course externally, he would retain its basic aims...
Kraut said yesterday, "The Glee Club and the Choral Society have always attempted, both under Doc (Davison) and Woody (Woodworth) to establish the educational importance of serious choral music in the college and community life of America, and for such a purpose this trip might be well conceived...
...Friday night, the Harvard Glee Club reaffirmed its position as one of the foremost college choruses in the country. Lotti's Crucifixus was rendered with impeccable diction and great emotional intensity. Mr. Woodworth distinguished carefully between flowing counter-point and contrasting chant-like sections, and he never permitted the tempo to lag. After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic...