Word: davisons
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...enjoyed the contrasts: Harvard's tone balloons out round and warm, and projects best, as in the Welsh folk songs arranged by Davison--dense, pondering textures. But Yale thrusts out its lines with thinner but sharper tone, singing Leisring's O Fillii et Feliae with great verve...
Other members of the cast are Peter Davison '49, Barbara Blanchard '60, and Eustacian Grandin. Stephen Aaron '57, assistant director of the Drama Center, is directing the play, and Donald R. Pule, technical director of the Center, in charge of sets and lighting...
...suspect that the late Archibald Davison, to whom the performance of the Requiem was dedicated, would have frowned on church performance of the Requiem. Its grief is a worldly sort too sensuous and lyrical to fulfill Davison's demand that true sacred music lead the worshipper toward the supernatural without such earthly qualities as lush thirds or pictorial arpeggios. Quite to the contrary, if someone had listened to this concert (especially the Faure) with purely religious intent, he would have had to ignore the greatest beauty and genius of the music...
...latter course demands over-whelming ability. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein have tried it, but opinions vary on the quality and importance of their most serious works; Archibald Davison gave up composing entirely for education. Such men are often rewarded--and rightly so--with greater fame and financial security than their more esoteric colleagues, but in the process they may easily draw professional jealousy...
...maintained that only the best will fulfill the purpose of music, whether it be an offering of beauty to God or purely an appreciation of that beauty. To defend his ideals, to strive toward their achievement and to effect them with discrimination--these were the accomplishments of Archibald Davison...