Word: davisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening in the spring of 1916, Archibald T. (Doc) Davison '06 was conducting a joint rehearsal of the Harvard glee Club and Radcliffe choral Society. After the two groups had finished singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...Davison still vividly remembers the 1916 "rehearsal" which was in reality an audition for Muck. "When he did 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...
...would have flabber-gasted the composers; most of the pieces were written for the private entertainment, either between dinner courses or postprandially, of small groups of nobility. Impresario John Hollander, a Junior Fellow, chose a representative group of thirty-six short pieces, mostly from the first volume of Professor Davison's rich Historical Anthology of Music...
...selection of Sears and Brush raises Harvard's total of Rhodes Scholars this years to four. Other scholarship winners announced earlier are John S. Davison '55, and Richard H. Ullman...
...Davison, from Detroit and Dunster House, is concentrating in Government...