Word: choraler
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...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...
...couldn't stop them from singing when we performed with the Boston Symphony so I found a place for them under the organ pipes where the tones were completely deafening. I'm sure Koussevitsky didn't even realize they were there. They sang in no less than four major choral works with the Boston Symphony, without deleterious effect...
...undoubtedly this very enthusiasm as a conductor which inspired Davison's book "Choral Conducting" which appeared in 1940. "Zeal for fine music," wrote Davison, "depends not at all upon education, musical or otherwise. It grows out of an experience of the satisfaction that springs only from the association with the highest manifestations of musical...
...course, now taught with recordings of opera, orchestral and choral works, is perhaps one of the most pleasant to sit through. For example, Davison describes Schumann's meeting with Johannes Brahms in this fashion: "'Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?' The two moved into the living room where the visitor's eyes immediately rested on the piano. Schumann hastened to ask, 'Won't you please play something of your own composition...
Perhaps the best example of exactly what it is that has inspired his 43 years of outstanding work as an instructor at Harvard can be drawn from the pages of his book, "Choral Conducting." This is, in essence, the credo by which "Doc" has lived and taught...