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...John Davison, in the dual role of pianist and composer, gave a recital of rather unfamiliar music in Adams House Sunday night. As a pianist he is only middling, but as a composer he shows talent, imagination, and originality...
Russell Stanger, conductor of the orchestra, Randall Thompson '20, head of the Music Department, and Archibald T. Davison '06, Ditson Professor of Music, will judge the constestants solely on their skill in performances of works from Mozart to Copeland...
...When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann told the story of that ill-fated trip in a bestselling book, Last Voyage (TIME, March 24, 1952), and resolved to sail alone on the first lap of the adventure she and her husband had planned together...
Although Palestrina's Supplicationes receives top billing on the record, I was most impressed by Byrd's Iustorum Animae. Written for the Feast of All Saints, it was arranged for male voices by Harvard's Professor A. T. Davison. Here is an excellent union of sound and meaning, culminating with the word "mortis," in complete relaxation and immobility. The Glee Club handles the interlocking phrases and constantly shifting melodic lines so skillfully that the general effect is coherent and logical...
Among many readable books of true adventure, perhaps the most exciting was Ann Davison's Last Voyage, the tense report of a tragic effort, made with her husband, to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. Aldous Huxley made an appearance with an urbane history of some 17th century French Ursuline nuns who were possessed by The Devils of London. Rome and a Villa, an intellectual love affair that Author Eleanor Clark carried on with the Eternal City, made better reading than all the year's travel books put together. The finest picture book of the year...