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Thursday, 2:30 o'clock-Meeting in Sanders Theatre; chairman, Archibaid T. Davison. Address by Paul H. Buck. Provost, "The Raison d'Etre Criticism in the Arts"-E. M. Forster; "The Scope of Music Criticism"-Roger Sessions. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Chamber Music in Sanders Theatre by the Walden String Quartet. New Compositions: Bohuslav Martian, String Quartet; Op. 6; Walter Piston, String Quartet, Op. 3; Arnold Schonenberg, String Trio...
Smokey Mortensen, Freshman coach, will start the following lineup: Chamberlin, g; Ripley, pt; MacDonald, c.pt; D. Carswell, ld.; Zeigler, 2d.; Birdsall, c.; Claflin, 2a.; Kortepeter, 1a.; Aibel, o.h.; Davison...
Arriving at Harvard in 1920 as a Freshman, he immediately joined the Glee Club, which had just become a major College organization under Professor "Doc" Davison. After a few weeks, he flunked his quartet trials, then as now the deciding factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor...
...swung to a belief in the strong and simple in music as well as in a love for Nantucket and old railroad locomotives. Listening to recordings made seven years ago, he says blushingly, "I don't see how I could have been so romantic then." Although Woodworth follows Professor Davison's precedent in presenting a majority of classical choral music, including a yearly rendition of Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he still has a weakness for modern American classics, ranging from Hindemith to "Casey Jones...
Archibald Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, views the apparent flowering of musical interest "as the natural culmination of the tradition started here 40 years ago." Professor Davison emphasizes musical participation as much as counter transactions: "The Glee Club, Band, and Pierian Sodality have all reached new high-water marks," he says, "while the Music Club is also experiencing a high-interest cycle. All this leads people to take music courses and from there to move to record buying and the eventual building of private music libraries...