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...present this basic duality is enormously compounded by the decimation of the department's staff over the past year and a half. Nearly half of the permanent faculty members were lost death and retirement. The retirement of Archibald T. "Dee" Davison, '06, the grand old man of the department, was followed in quick succession by the deaths of Professors Stephen D. Tuttle and Otto J. Gombosi. Then, during the past term, Assistant Professor Alan D. Sapp has been sidelined by illness. All this has been resulted in the dropping of several courses in an already none too large offering, substituting...
...Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, explained that this was only the second time that the medal had been conferred since its institution in 1951. Archibald T. Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, Emeritus, who first developed the Glee Club to high artistic standing, received the first award...
...with Muck, Davison had to find a way to overcome Koussevitzky's prejudice. The task this time, however, was considerable easier. Even before the new conductor arrived in Boston, Davison had decided to have his chorus sing Brahms' German Requiem with the BSO. Monteux had never suggested such an ambitious choral piece, but Davison arranged to hire 60 members of the symphony for two performances of the work in April, 1925. He had planned to conduct these concerts himself, but at the last moment asked Koussevitzky to take his place, maintaining that although he liked to train choruses, he preferred...
This provided a perfect opportunity to introduce Koussevitzky to the Harvard and Radcliffe singers. At first the conductor did not want to accept Davison's offer; he though something must have gone drastically wrong in rehearsals and that Davison wanted to escape blame at the actual concerts. He finally agreed to conduct, however, and after the concerts wrote; "Harvard has the best trained chorus I have ever heard in any country of the world...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 succeeded Davison as conductor of the chorus as he was later to succeed him as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. But under the present conductor of the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch, the Glee Club and choral society will never again perform pieces in the same grandiose manner to which they became accustomed under Koussevitzky. The change came in 1950, shortly before they were to assist the BSO in a Pension Fund performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...