Day commemoration.Ī celebrated jazz pianist and composer, Davis has taught music at the University of California San Diego since 1996. He made this trip - his first back to Exeter’s campus since he graduated nearly 54 years ago - to deliver the keynote address for the school’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Davis can be forgiven for not keeping track of Academy renovations over the years. When Fisher Theater, the Goel Center’s predecessor, opened in 1972, Dramat House was renamed 3-D Hall it was used to house drama and art classes until it was torn down in the early 1980s. “I don’t even remember where we performed that,” he says.Ī search of Exonian archives reveals the 1969 production was performed in the old Dramat House, a renovated parish building behind Dunbar Hall.
Times have changed, Davis acknowledges, since he took to Exeter’s stage as a senior in a production of The Threepenny Opera. Soft-spoken, with curly gray hair and wire-framed glasses, he smiles easily as he admires the lighting and flexible seating options in the intimate performance space known as the Actors Lab. Goel Center for Theater and Dance is quiet as Anthony Davis ’69 gets his first look around the building, which opened in 2018. On a late afternoon in mid-January, The David E.
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