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...course, Davison is still teaching departmental courses, a graduate seminar in research and, once every few years, a class in notation. Besides the many famous musicians he has taught, every single member of the present staff is one of his students. "And it is almost embarrassing the number of distinguished men who are products of Harvard training" he says...
...During Davison's career as choirmaster President Lowell asked him to give a course in choral music and, little by little, Davison went mere into history in all of his courses...
...Davison wanted to help the non-concentrator, the man who could take no music courses because he could not met the requirements. "My great interest," he explains, "is in the man who has to start from scratch." At the time, 1935, the type of course he 'planned--with emphasis on music with historical background--was not common in colleges, although preparatory schools had some like...
When classes began, the music faculty, which had expected less than 50 students, was inundated with 300. "It was appalling," Davison reports. Since then, the plan of the course has changed little...
Since its start, the course has been a particular vehicle for Davison, even to today when the examinations are based almost entirely on detailed section material. At ten each Tuesday and Thursday morning he walks onto Paine Hall's stage. He is a short, amiable man who smiles behind his glasses. Soon, however, the spectacles are off, for he continually gestures with them, most especially when the music pleases him. And somehow, with his words--spoken softly in a nearly English accent--and gestures, he gets across his love, appreciation, almost veneration of good music. One of his generation...