File 4 - Five year diary : 1961-1965

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File consists of George Brough's five-year diary, spanning the years 1961 to 1965. During this time, Brough performed, recorded, and toured with a number of musicians; worked as an examiner; and was a coach and accompanist for numerous opera productions with the Royal Conservatory Opera School, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Festival (Toronto), Vancouver International Festival, and CBC television broadcasts. In 1965, he started a 41-year stint as accompanist and opera coach at the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Brough collaborated with a number of different musicians, including Paul Brodie, Howell Glynne, Michael Head, Maurice Brown, Naomi Newman, David Zafer, Leslie Holmes, Helen Simmie, Lloyd Bradshaw, Ilona Kombrink, Malcolm Tait, Marilyn Duffus, Jan Rubes, Gerald Knight, Healey Willan, Hyman Goodman, Ross Dodington, Steven Staryk, Margaret Tynes, William Kuinka, Peter Glossop, and the Carillon Quartet.

Operas that he was involved with during this time included: Orpheus ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck; The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi; Amelia Goes to the Ball and Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti; Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams; A Midsummer Night's Dream and Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten; and Carmen by Georges Bizet.

Brough continued to play for services at various Toronto churches, including Grace Church, St. Edmunds, St. Simons, Bloor Street United, Trinity United, and St. George's United.

He also was the accompanist for the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir for some of their concerts and was accompanist for various student recitals at the Royal Conservatory of Music and University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

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