The group was officially invited by the government of France, and the tour was covered by the press in the US and Europe.[2] This tour also resulted in a spate of new work written expressly for the Glee Club by such composers as Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Gustav Holst.[3] Under Doc Davison, the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society became the choruses of choice for the Boston Symp