File 74 - Homage to Robert Herrick : a cantata for choir and solo voices, accompanied by string quartet, oboe, bassoon and harpsichord, and a reader

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OTUFM 49-A-1-74

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Homage to Robert Herrick : a cantata for choir and solo voices, accompanied by string quartet, oboe, bassoon and harpsichord, and a reader

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  • 1978 (Creation)

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6 parts + 2 scores (79 p.) : photocopy, with annotations

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(1931-2019)

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A2020-01

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File contains the annotated score and parts from a performance on December 16, 1978 at Massey College (Devonshire Place), Dining Hall. Homage to Robert Herrick uses text selected from Herrick's verses and other sources by Robertson Davies, who also wrote the introduction. The piece was commissioned by Massey College, in the University of Toronto, through a grant from the Ontario Arts Council for performance on Gaudy Night (December 16, 1978). It is dedicated to Edmund Semmons. One of the scores is missing pages 1 and 74-78.

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    For program from premiere performance at Massey College, directed by Gordon Wry and Bruce Ubukata, see OTUFM 49-C-2-1.

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    Box 3

    Alastair Boyd's catalogue no.

    62

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