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Last night's tribute to Professor Archibald. "Doc" Davison convincingly demonstrated his enormous contribution to all branches of choral music. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, singing alumni, flashy trumpeters, and a cheering audience of dignitaries made the concert a dramatic success...
Each fact of Davison's genius was well illustrated. Eight of his own arrangements--four folk songs and four G. and S. choruses--showed a freshness and brightness that invite but defy imitation. Canto di Caccia and Tu Mi Vuoi were particularly effective, with their alternate blending and contrasting of voice parts...
Archibald T. Davison '05, retiring James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, will be honored tonight with a special Glee Club concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include many of Davison's own musical arrangements...
...Music in Davison's honor, composed especially for the occasion by Henry L. Clark, Virgil Thomson '22, Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, assistant professor of Music, will comprise the latter part...
...Davison's honors have been too varied and numerous in past years to include in a list here. Four of his most significant, appropriately enough, come from universities. He has been awarded honorary degrees in music from Oxford, Williams, and Harvard Universities, and he has been presented with the first and only Glee Club medal in the history of Harvard University...