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Three Songs by Russell Woollen 1G provide their singer with a graceful and often intensely emotional part. The accompaniment, while full and eminently pianistic, never interferes with the voice. Father Woollen uses dissonance sparingly, most often to underscore dramatic phrases in the text...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Harvard Composers | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...Russell Woollen's Flute Quartet was the only work to suffer in performance. While playing correctly enough, the instrumentalists--particularly the flutist--did little to give the quartet the dynamic treatment it needs to hold together. Father Woollen's individual musical ideas are melodious and carefully scored, but their arrangement is episodic. His phrases, moreover, have a structural symmetry that eventually becomes monotonous...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Harvard Composers | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...other, perhaps not having noticed the rug, half hidden by the shrubs, dragged it in a different direction so that its woollen coat rose over its ears. "Dirty, dirty," she cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ROMANCE | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...their meaning lies in the fact that, to encourage the cloth trade, Parliament had passed an Act that all corpses were to be wrapped in British woollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ignorant Reader | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Odious! In woollen! T'would a saint provoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ignorant Reader | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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