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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Wagner program, with Soprano Rose Bampton, Tenor Set Svanholm. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Mendelssohn program: the Octet in E-Flat Major, the Fifth (Reformation) Symphony, Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club...
...Elected conductor of the Glee Club in 1934, Woodworth has gradually swung to a belief in the strong and simple in music as well as in a love for Nantucket and old railroad locomotives. Listening to recordings made seven years ago, he says blushingly, "I don't see how I could have been so romantic then." Although Woodworth follows Professor Davison's precedent in presenting a majority of classical choral music, including a yearly rendition of Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he still has a weakness for modern American classics, ranging from Hindemith to "Casey Jones...
Speaking from notes he took during the time he conducted "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera House, the short, stocky, Berlin-born conductor declared that only recently has the genius of Mozart been fully appreciated...