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...come to hear us, we couldn't have him just sitting on the stage. There was a great legend surrounding the man-even members of his own orchestra were terrified of the man, he recalls. But the quality of the chorus impressed Muck just as it has such later BSO conductors as Pierre Monteux, serge Koussevitzky, and Charles Munch. the precedent once established in the 1917 concert, Davison's singers never again found it so difficult to get engagements with the BSO...
...very next year, however, the young ladies from Radcliffe again sang in the carol service with the choir. Davison was taking a calculated risk, but he won. Lowell never said another word about the carol services. Indeed, shortly after the Harvard-Radcliffe performance with the BSO in 1917, Lowell requested Davison to have the Glee Club sing at a ceremony honoring Marshall Joffre. His closing remarks to Davison were, "and don't forget to invite the ladies from Radcliffe...
Monteux himself was delighted with the singing of the chorus. In 1923 he wrote; "I think it is the most wonderful chorus in America." He resigned his post as BSO conductor, however, after the close of the 1923-24 season, and Serge Koussevitzky was wary of using the amateur group...
...with Muck, Davison had to find a way to overcome Koussevitzky's prejudice. The task this time, however, was considerable easier. Even before the new conductor arrived in Boston, Davison had decided to have his chorus sing Brahms' German Requiem with the BSO. Monteux had never suggested such an ambitious choral piece, but Davison arranged to hire 60 members of the symphony for two performances of the work in April, 1925. He had planned to conduct these concerts himself, but at the last moment asked Koussevitzky to take his place, maintaining that although he liked to train choruses, he preferred...
...least of Davison's achievements was the subtle manner in which he managed to combine Radcliffe's Choral Society with his own Glee Club. After arranging a program with Dr. Muck, leader of the BSO, and Mrs. Gallison, Radcliffe conductor, in 1917 the Harvard-Radcliffe's combined choruses presented Brahm's "Schicksalslied" with the orchestra at Symphony Hall. It proved to be the first of a series of many similar combination performances...