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...talk in Sanders Theatre by Dr. A. T. Davison with illustrations by the choir will be the feature of today's program of the two day meeting. Dr. Davison will explain a new method of teaching singing so that the student learns by ear rather than by note...
...Harvard Glee Club's prestige but for the way it has inspired other colleges to improve their musical standards is the small, baldish, square-set man who conducted last week, mouthing the music along with the boys, smiling approval after each number. He was Archibald Thompson Davison, organist and choirmaster at Appleton Chapel, who has been the Glee Club's director for 21 years. He had been convinced that college boys could sing as artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would...
With the Symphony for the last two springs "Doc" Davison's singers have given Bach's great B Minor Mass. With the Vassar Glee Club in Poughkeepsie this spring they made an. evening of Brahms's German Requiem. Unlike most college glee club concerts, it was not a prelude to dancing. This week the Glee Club, again with the Requiem, is to help Dr. Koussevitzky celebrate the centenary of Brahms's birth...
George Willets Davison, chairman of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., last week was named to fill the place of Albert Henry Wiggin. retired chairman of Chase National Bank, on the board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Thomas John Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp., was named to fill the place of William Hartman Woodin...
Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor...