Word: davisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davison himself remained as popular as ever. The club's membership expanded from 40 in 1911 to more than 200 in 1926 primarily due to the personality of its conductor...
...book again stated Davison's old philosophy of music in schools: "The really worthwhile products of music education . . . are a love for the best and a will to participate...
That year Randall Thompson '20 announced that, according to a survey of all college music departments in the association of American colleges, "over a million copies of Dr. Davison's song arrangements in sheet music have been sold", and that bound volumes of these arrangements had found their way into 300 colleges...
...this, Richard C. Cabot '90, at an address at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Glee Club, announced that 'public school music, church music, and the music produced when people sing round a piano at home--all these are now strongly influenced by the "Concord Series", for which Dr. Davison and Mr. Surette are responsible . . . bound volumes of this series have been sold in Switzerland, Mexico, Korca, England, Ireland, Palestine, and Canada...
...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...