Weekly Broadcasts by Woodworth Preview Next Day's B.S.O. Concert

"Music is different from the other arts because it moves in time," G. Wallace Woodworth '24, Professor of Music, believes. "Sounds pass the listener with such rapidity that the only way to really become familiar with a piece of music is to hear it over and over again."

Woodworth believes that he has found a partial solution to the layman's problems in understanding music through his radio program. "Tomorrow's Symphony", which is being broadcast on WGBH-FM, the Lowell Institute's new radio station.

"Tomorrow's Symphony" is heard on Thursday afternoons and Friday evenings. The program consists of Woodworth's comments on compositions that are to be played the following day at Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts.

He plays the works over the air and cuts in on the performance wherever he feel an important point in the music's development has been reached. He then points out exactly what has happened so that the listener gets an accurate picture of what the composer and performers are trying to achieve.

Old Techniques

"Understanding and listening are sometimes two separate things," Woodworth says. "The whole idea behind the program" he adds "is to give those who go to or hear the concerts a period of rehearsed listening."

"The techniques used in the program are not new," he states. "They are merely an extension of classroom music instruction methods." Nevertheless, Woodworth says that "I get a tremendous kick out of doing the show--probably because no one has ever tried to give this sort of listening opportunity to radio audiences."