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...preparation for three major performances during the remainder of the week, the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society are working earnestly under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, conductor of the two musical organizations...
...Koussevitzky wrote the arrangement of the alma mater only after strenuous urging on the part of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Club, for more than three years. It is in eight parts, and was first sung at the Tercentenary. Recording marks an innovation in Glee Club policy. Several pieces from the current repertoire will also be preserved in wax on Saturday, March...
...Conductor Rodzinski has made unusual progress since he arrived in the U. S. twelve years ago. In 1924 Leopold Stokowski discovered him in Warsaw, a quiet young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of practicing the law his parents had intended him for. Next year he went to Philadelphia with Stokowski, was assistant conductor there for four years. He spent four more conducting in Los Angeles until in 1933 the Los Angeles Orchestra began to have trouble. William Andrews Clark Jr., who had supported the orchestra for 14 years, announced he could do so only...
...ardent passages Rodzinski still likes to put down his baton and shape the music with his bare hands, a habit he picked up from Stokowski. From Stokowski too he may well have learned the flexible beats and ingenious phrasing that made many concertgoers consider him the ablest conductor they had heard this season. Others felt he exaggerated certain passages beyond all reason, such as the second movement of the Sibelius Second which he takes more slowly than any other conductor alive...
...Though Toscanini conducted the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, he never signed a permanent contract. Last permanent full-time conductor was Josef Stransky...