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Professor G. Wallace Woodworth has done even more than bring before the University a musically sensitive and technically accomplished choral organization. Under his direction, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Ohoral Society, last Friday presented a concert which brought to life a musical idiom almost four centuries old. For two hours a capacity Sanders Theatre audience found itself immersed in the musical language of the "Golden Age" of choral music, and their repeated ovations made it clear that they found the experience both illuminating and thrilling...
...genius at writing choral music. His counterpoint is at times turgid, his sonorities monotonous. Nevertheless, there are passages in the final scene where the words and music combine in mutual enhancement, and even steal the show from the orchestra. The Harvard and Radcliffe choral groups, trained by G. Walace Woodworth, were no better than usual, but they really couldn't be. That they were able to successfully project the rather unrewarding vocal sections is a tribute to their talent and hard work...
...months ago G. Walker Woodworth conducted a performance of Handel's Messiab that was intended to sound as it would in Handel's own day. The results were rather tepid. But his latest venture in archaism a quite mother story...
...Italian laude, O Maria, Diam Stella, a work more notable for its reverent dignity than for any intrinsic musical merit. After a rather sluggish rendition of Lassus' Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria comes victoria's beautiful Miserere Mei. The Glee club, showing full comprehension of the text, sings expressively, but Woodworth never permits the performance to become over-emotional. The perfect enunciation and balance of the group illuminate each word...
...Wallace Woodworth will direct the group assisted by Barbara Counelly Williams' director is Walter Rellner