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...Glee Club a signal honor by acting as is cost conductor; now he adds his high praise in words which carry the weight of undoubted authority. He not only asserts that it is the best trained chorus in America, but gives it a place of international distinction. Dr. Davison, the individual members of the Glee Club, and the University at large may well feel proud of this tribute to indubitable merit and achievement...
...Harvard has the best trained chorus I have ever heard in any country of the world," declared M. Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. "Dr. Davison with his Glee Club and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, has done what countless musicians have only partially succeeded in doing; he has instilled into his singers real feeling for the music they work with...
Married. James Stillman Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, to Miss Nancy Carnegie, grandniece of the late Andrew Carnegie; at Dungeness, Cumberland Island, off the coast of Florida...
...such devotion through long months, amongst many another work and pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...Then the hours, the final hours, that shall make incandescent this choral virtue, these songful freedoms, that musical understanding, such stir and mood already a-beat and aglow. Dr. Davison began them; Mr. Koussevitsky finished them. The audience sat in away and thrall to the power and the beauty so engendered...