Word: choraled
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...love of the choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries that he instilled in the choir proved the crucial factor in the transformation of the Glee Club. In 1919 a number of choir members independently of him ended the tie with the instrumental clubs and asked him to be director of the new Glee Club. That spring they toured The East and Middle West and were acclaimed the best amateur chorus in America...
...explained later in Choral Conducting, rehearsals were the key to the Club's quality and to his educational aims. A short, strongly built man, he moved swiftly but unostentatiously on the podium, evoking the response he wanted rather by an expressive face and pair of hands than by the discursiveness he often condemned in conductors. Davison always believed that music could speak for itself and that explanation of contrapuntal technique or rhapsodizing on Schubert only frustrated that desire to sing which is natural to a well-trained chorus...
...Harvard Glee Club and the University Choir will sing today at a funeral service for former choral director Archibald T. Davison '06, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, emeritus, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church...
...service for Davison, who led the revival of serious classics in American choral music, will be conducted by Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity. Davison taught Music 1 and advanced courses in addition to directing the Glee Club, the University Choir, and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Davison conducted the Harvard Glee Club for almost a quarter of a century and led it on its first tour of Europe in 1921. After he became University Organist and Choirmaster in 1910, Davison also served as director of the Radcliffe Choral Society for 15 years...