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University of Toronto Music Library Udo Kasemets fonds
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Udo Kasemets fonds

  • OTUFM 11
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2011

Fonds consists of sketches, drafts, and texts for Udo Kasemets’s compositions, including scores prior to 1960 that use conventional media, and those after 1960, which consists of multi-purpose scores, combination scores, and theatre pieces. The fonds also contains programs and press notices for performances by Udo Kasemets and of his works; correspondence with many American avant-garde musicians; and Kasemets’s projects and notes from his time teaching at the Ontario College of Art.

Kasemets, Udo

Cascando

File includes charts, sketches, various realizations; program notes; and notes on 1 March 1969 performance.

Trigon

File contains a copy of the BMI published score (1979) with the inscription: "To C.: With thanks to a dedicated collaborator and performer in no less than four realizations and eleven performances. U."

Thunderword

File contains two folders of performance materials (ink); a photocopy of performance instructions (typescript with additions in pencil and coloured ink); tape charts; posters; and, programs.

Counterbomb renga

File contains correspondence with contributors; notebooks by contributors with selected texts and additional poems; Acrostics and Tankostics; readings from notebooks; scorebooks; artists' signatures book; radio script; Chainchant for piano solo with or without electronics; Musicworks number 21, 22; and, posters and flyers. This piece is "a collaboration of over 100 poets and musicians from Canada and the US in a poetical/musical statement, conceived and coordinated by Udo Kasemets." Texts selected from "The fate of the earth" by Jonathan Schell.

Yi jing jitterbug : soloctet

File contains a program from the premiere performance by David Mott as part of the concert "Saxophonic" on May 3, 1986 at the Music Gallery, Toronto.

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