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John Herbert Davison 1G winner of the Bohemian Club Prize, received a similar grant from the income from the fund for a Suite for Piano. The prizes were announced simultaneously with the Bowdoin Prizes in literature for undergraduates...
...judges was asked to study the scores and select works for two appealing, well-balanced programs. After three weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...
...fine publicity work of Burton Malkiel '53, drew a large crowd to the Adams House Dining Hall for the first program Sunday night. The concert began with John Davison's comic overture for seven instruments, II Janitoro. This was a most congenial program-opener--consonant, uncomplicated, with touches of real humor. The ensemble's performance faltered at times, but the piece still sounded sunny and worth hearing again...
...special intermission feature, Professor Copland, Mr. Middleton and Mr. Sapp discussed these works candidly, directing all their comments at the composers themselves. Davison, Mandelbaum, and Wyner either defended themselves or accepted the criticisms: bad instrumentation, over-length, and so on. The discussion built up the rapport so often lacking between composer and listener...
...program included works by John H. Davison 1G, Joel Mandelbaum '53, Yehudi Wyner 1G, Leland H. Proctor (Special Student), Victor Yellin 2G, and Robert W. Moevs...