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Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...
Last night's tribute to Professor Archibald. "Doc" Davison convincingly demonstrated his enormous contribution to all branches of choral music. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, singing alumni, flashy trumpeters, and a cheering audience of dignitaries made the concert a dramatic success...
...Doc," as teachers, received the most appropriate of birthday presents: songs by four of his most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
Even more significant as an indication of his stature was the remainder of the program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another...
Perhaps the best example of exactly what it is that has inspired his 43 years of outstanding work as an instructor at Harvard can be drawn from the pages of his book, "Choral Conducting." This is, in essence, the credo by which "Doc" has lived and taught...