Harry L Davidson

Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday 3:45PM - 6:45PM

Education

• Masters of Music, Orchestral Conducting Pacific Lutheran University, 1983
• BA Music Case Western Reserve University, 1978

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• NOMINATION: 2009 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Duke Alumni Association, May 1, 2009
• Keyserling Cancer Center, Beaufort (SC) Memorial Hospital, Duke affiliated Keyserling Cancer Center, March, 2008
• Fund Raising/Humanitarian, Beaufort (SC) Memorial Hospital, Duke affiliated Keyserling Cancer Center, March 31, 2007
• Fund Raising/Humanitarian, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Duke Affiliated Keyserling Cancer Center, March 25, 2006
• Fund Raising/Humanitarian, April 2005

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• Music 49s.01, Drama through music Synopsis

  Biddle 086, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• Music 100.01, Symphony orchestra

  Baldwin, MW 07:30 PM-09:30 PM

Recent Professional Work:

• H.L. Davidson. ""Eclectic Notes"." Duke Magazine 95.3 (May-June, 2009): 2. for special 25th (Silver) anniversary edition  [abs]
• H.L. Davidson. ""Potent Art or Rough Magic: The Conjuring of Musical Tempests"." The Journal of the Mediterranean Studies AssociationMediterranean Studies 15 (Spring, 2007 (came out)): 178 - 189.  [author's comments]

• Harry Davidson. ""Potent Art or Rough Magic: The Conjuring of Musical Tempests"." Mediterranean Studies. Edited by Geraldo U. DeSousa. Manchester University Press vol. 15 2007: 178 - 189.

   Performances:

• Duke Symphony Orchestra, Parent's Weekend Concert, Duke Chapel, October 24, 2009
  
• Duke Symphony Orchestra, East Campus Quad, September 06, 2009
  Annual Labor Day Pops Concert for Community
• North Carolina Symphony, Maymandi Concert Hall, May 17, 2009
  Cover Conductor
• Duke Symphony Orchestra, Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center, March 28, 2009
  Benefit Concert for Beaufort Memorial Hospital's Keyserling Cancer Center: Haydn and Mendelssohn
• Durham Symphony Orchestra, Emily K Center, March 21, 2009
  Haydn, Brahms and Mendelsson
• Durham Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, February 08, 2009
  Guest Conductor: Classical Concert: Haydn, Sibelius, Saint Saens, Brahms

• Washington Lee Bands, Arlington, VA, Baldwin Auditorium, March 29, 2007
  Master class/clinic for Washington Lee High School of Arlington, Virginia. Commentary and rehearsal of works. 2:00PM - 4:00PM.

• The Cleveland Institute of Music Opera, Kulas Hall, Cleveland Ohio, February 25 - 28, 2009 (4 performances)
  "Lo Speziale" by Joseph Haydn and "Suor Angelica" by Giacomo Puccini
• The Cleveland Institute of Music Opera, Kulas Hall, Cleveland Ohio, November 11 - 14, 2009 (4 performances)
  Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel" (Act 1): Weber: "Der Freischutz" (Act 2); Verdi: "La Traviata" (Acts 3 and 4).
• Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, December 02, 2009
  Music of Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven; Darrett Adkins, cello soloist
• Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, September 30, 2009
  The Mendelssohn Anniversary Celebration Continues! All Mendelssohn program featuring R. Larry Todd's reconstruction of the 3rd piano concerto and his edition of the 1st version of the violin concerto
• Duke Symphony Orchestra; Incidental Dreaming: Hearing Shakespeare, Seeing Mendelssohn in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Baldwin Auditorium, April 15, 2009
  A presentation of Shakespeare's play with Mendelssohn's Incidental Music; with the Antic Skhakespeare Co., Jay O'Berski, director, The Durham Children's Choir and soloists jung Oh and Teresa Buchholz
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, March 04, 2009
  "Salute to Papa" (Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn); Symphonies 45 and 104 plus "Africamerica" by Anthony Kelley and the Korngold Violin Concerto
• The Cleveland Institute of Music Opera, Kulas Hall, Cleveland Ohio, November 12 - 15, 2008
  Opera Production: "Beatrice et Benedict" by Hector Berlioz. (4 performances). CIM Orchestra and Opera Theater: Music Director and Conductor.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 18 and 20, 2008
  Opera: "Hansel and Gretel" Complete semi-staged concert version.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, November 21, 2008
  Concerto Competition
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Duke Chapel, October 25, 2008
  Parent's Weekend Concert: Music by Vorisek and Dvorak
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, October 08, 2008
  "'Czech' This Out!" featuring music by Vorisek, Stamic, Dvorak
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, East Campus Quad, August 31, 2008
  Annual Labor Day Pops Concert featuring music from films, musicals and other light classical fare.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 12, 2008
  "Prism" Concert for Duke University Alumni Weekend. Music by Humperdinck
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center, March 29, 2008
  Benefit Concert for the Keyserling Cancer Center of Beaufort Memorial Hospital featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Faure and Humperdinck
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, March 05, 2008
  "The Three Bs?": Music by Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, December 05, 2007
  "Fete Francaise Fantastique;" Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre; Faure: Pavane; Debussy: Danses sacree et profane; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
• The Cleveland Institute of Music Opera, Kulas Hall, Cleveland Ohio, November 07, 2007 - November 10, 2007
  "A Celebration of Opera;" Scenes from 10 different operas with the CIM Orchestra in a semi-staged concert production (4 performances) including works by Rossini, Offenbach, Mozart, Beethoven, Massenet, Charpentier, Donizetti, Nicolai, and Richard Strauss.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Duke Chapel, November 03, 2007
  Annual "Parent's Weekend" Concert; Music by Brahms, Faure, Schumann and J. Strauss.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, October 03, 2007
  "Robert Schumann and Friends;" Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1,3,10; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor; Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, East Campus Quad, September 03, 2007
  Pops Concert for the Community (DSO retreat weekend); "Music from the Movies" featuring music by Bernstein, and others.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 14, 2007
  Music Department all ensemble "Prism" Concert. Nicolai: Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 11, 2007
  "Viennese Connections;" Nicolai: Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor;" Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D, 1st movement, with Mingyo Hwang, DSO concerto competition winner; Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, "The Great"
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center, March 31, 2007
  Benefit Concert for the Duke affiliated Keyserling Cancer Center of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Guest performers included the Beaufort, HS Concert Choir.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, February 14, 2007
  "Anglo-Saxon Synergies;" Abel: Symphony in Eb Major, Op. 7 No. 6; J.C.Bach: Sinfonia Concertante in C Major for flute, oboe, violin and cello; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, "Scotch."
• Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio, May 7, 2006
  Brahms: "The Tragic Overture" and "Ein deutsches Requiem" with The Oberlin Orchestra and Oberlin Musical Union
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Duke Chapel, October 28, 2006
  Parents' Weekend Concert: Shostakovich, Mozart and J. Strauss
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, December 6, 2006
  "Celebrating the Birthday Boys: Mozart and Shostakovich" (Mozart: Adagio and Fugue and Sinfonia Concertante for Vl. and Vla., and Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 6 and 8, 2006
  "The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Drama Giocoso" in 4 Acts (Complete opera sung in Italian in a semi-staged concert version)
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, April 22, 2006
  Duke Music Department Concert ("Prism"). It should be noted that I had to drive back from Oberlin (Ohio), where I was doing a month long residency, just to present the DSO in this 10 minute performance.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, West Campus Plaza, September 3, 2006
  Pops Concert for the Community (DSO retreat weekend)
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, October 4, 2006
  "Celebrating the Birthday Boys: Mozart and Shostakovich, featuring the "Festive Overture" and Cello Concerto No. 1 of Shostakovich and the Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" of Mozart.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Beaufort High School, Performing Arts Center, Beaufort, SC, March 25, 2006
  Benefit Concert for the Duke affiliated Keyserling Cancer Center of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. (For program details, see DSO program for February 15). The Orchestra has raised nearly $67,000 over the past three years through our performances there.
• The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Belk Theater/ Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC, January 16, 2006
  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Concert, "Daybreak of Freedom" (Soloists, The Charlottle CommUnity Choir and The Charlottle Symphony); works by Walker, Joplin, Copland, Beethoven, Still, Mendelssohn, and others
• The Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater, Kulas Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, February and March 2006
  "The Impresario" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and "Prima la musica, poi le parole" by Antonio Salieri. Music Director and Conductor. Performances (4) held March 1 through 4.
• The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Baldwin Auditorium, February 15, 2006
  "Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;" Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550; Ravel Piano Concerto in G major (1st movement) with student concerto competition winner, Ashley Price; Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 "Mozartiana"

• Residencies, The Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, April 10, 2006 through May 7, 2006
  Guest Conductor and Professor of Conducting. Lectured conducting classes (orchestral and choral) and taught individual graduate and undergraduate student conductors.

• Other, 2006/12/17