Colin Davis
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1960
- Died
- 2013-04-14
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Washday collectibles
- An atlas of endometriosis
- Scenes Of Love And Murder Renoir Film And Philosophy
- After poststructuralism
- "Animal Farm" Activity Book
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Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano. Nonetheless, he formed and often served as conductor of the Kalmar Orchestra with fellow students. In 1952, Davis worked at the Royal Festival Hall, and in the late 1950s conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He first found wide acclaim when he stood in for an ill Otto Klemperer in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's op
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 43,128x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 38,885x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,465x
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 September 1927
- Died
- 14 April 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Colin
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Weybridge
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
Connections
Categories
1927 births2013 deaths20th-century British Army personnel20th-century English conductors (music)21st-century English conductors (music)Academics of the Royal Academy of MusicAlumni of the Royal College of MusicBritish Life Guards soldiersChief conductors of the Bavarian Radio Symphony OrchestraChief conductors of the BBC Symphony OrchestraCommanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany