Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Glee Club's prestige but for the way it has inspired other colleges to improve their musical standards is the small, baldish, square-set man who conducted last week, mouthing the music along with the boys, smiling approval after each number. He was Archibald Thompson Davison, organist and choirmaster at Appleton Chapel, who has been the Glee Club's director for 21 years. He had been convinced that college boys could sing as artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would...
...grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living in Grand Rapids where his father worked in the postoffice, when he showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing...
...Chicago Leo Sowerby leads the same simple, methodical life. He likes to be an organist because it gives him time to compose, to develop his interest in old ecclesiastical music. He teaches at the American Conservatory of Music, where he put in his own first serious study. Eastern audiences are better acquainted with the music of Howard Hanson. Composer Sowerby's Rochester friend, but discriminating midwesterners regard Sowerby as every bit Hanson's equal, an opinion which many a New Yorker heartily indorsed last week after listening to Prairie...
...first public recital on the Isham Memorial Organ in the new Harvard Memorial Chapel will be held on Tuesday evening, at 8.15 o'clock, it was announced last night by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, Organist and Choir Master at Harvard University...
...recital will be given by Clarence Watters, who is Instructor of Music and Organist of the Chapel at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. The recital will be open to the public, Dr. Davison stated, and tickets will not be required...