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...Davison gave his first organ recital of the year on Tuesday afternoon, October 31st. Other recitals were given on November 28, December 12, January 30, February 27, and March 27, all except that on February 27 being held in Appleton Chapel. Two more recitals are planned for April 10 and May 22. All are open to the public...
...Christmas Carol services were held on Tuesday afternoon and evening and Wednesday evening, December 19 and 20, and were even more successful than in former years. Under Dr. Davison's leadership the Chapel Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society attained new heights above their usual excellent standard. All three services were very well attended, there being an attendance of almost 1200 on Wednesday evening...
...Davison '06, leader of the University Glee Club, will give the final lecture for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Sanders Theatre. A chorus of about forty Radcliffe and Harvard students and Mrs. Laura Littlefield, a soprano of Boston and graduate of Radcliffe College, will illustrate his lecture, the subject of which will be "Folk Song...
...program with the 130th Psalm in memory of John Henry Berry '25, a member of the club who has just recently died. After a severe yet impressive beginning in the two pieces of old church music, the concert took on a distinctly modern tone--a radical change from Dr. Davison's usual course. Mr. Converse's "Laudate Dominum" was particularly striking in its vigor and tone, filled out as it was by trombones and horns. As for the "Deux Choeurs" by J. Guy Ropartz, they were remarkable only because they were dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club...
Gustav Holst's "Dirge of Two Veterans", the words of which were written by Walt Whitman, was the most noteworthy number of the evening. Dr. Davison's inclusion of brasses and drums in this piece was a stroke of genius. As an example of impressionistic music, it is not to be matched in the field of choral singing...