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Gilda Hoffman '54 will play Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, Miss Hoffman will then accompany Dorothy Barnhouse '53, contralto, in three songs by Debussy. Milford's Sonata for Flute and Piano, will be played by Neville H. Fletcher 1G, flutist, and John Davison 2G, pianist. The program will conclude with a Movement from a Concerto in A Minor by Joel Mandelbaum '53, played on two pianos by the composer and Ann Besser...
...Barnaby and 12 of his players will leave the College today to give them an open day for travel before beginning their six-match tour at the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond on Sunday. On Monday, the team opens a schedule of four matches, playing North Carolina and Davison each twice. The final engagement will be with Navy on April 4, the first Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League contest for either school...
RICHARD R. DAVISON...
...Davison, who is doing graduate work in the Harvard music department, warmed up with the Preclude from Bach's Fourth English Suite-a routine piece, mechanically played. After a pleasant set of Variations by Buxtehude, Davison Joined with violinist Paul Revitt to play Schubert's Duo Sonata, (op.162). Despite the high opus number, it is a product of Schubert's youth, full of happy tunes and harmonic surprises. But Revitt's thievish tone and generally erratic technique made thorough enjoyment of the price difficult. Three Brahms Intermezzi followed, all of them receiving broad, well-molded performances...
Then came the new music. After setting up his audience with two innocuous bits of Impressionism by a college teacher named Alfred J. Swan, Davison presented three of his own wonderful compositions. He sticks pretty close to the old from but is no slave to them, liberally sprinkling his Toccatas and Sonatina with folksy, jazzy elements. This results in coherent outlines that form the rich and varied content of the works. The reliance on structure can backfire, though, and the final section of his Introduction Chorale, Preclued, and Fugue was weighted down with dry academics. For an encore Davison played...