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Phil Nimmons fonds

  • OTUFM 30
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1997

Fonds consists primarily of manuscript scores and parts for music written, arranged, and orchestrated by Phil Nimmons. Materials also include annotated scripts for incidental music that Nimmons wrote for various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television productions. Fonds includes scores and parts for two ensembles that Nimmons led, Nimmons 'N' Nine, and its expanded version Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, as well as various other ensembles.

Nimmons, Phil

Early compositions and arrangements

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Phil Nimmons, written early in his career before he formed his own group in 1953. Series includes charts for the Ray Norris Quintette, of which Nimmons was a member.

The man I love : music for jazz ensemble

File contains parts for the Ray Norris Quintette (Jackie Williamson, drums and vibraphone; "Bud" Henderson, piano; Ray Norris, guitar; "Doc" Hamilton, bass; and Phil Nimmons, clarinet).

Stompin' at the Savoy (400) : music for jazz ensemble

File contains parts for the Ray Norris Quintette (Jackie Williamson, drums and vibraphone; "Bud" Henderson, piano; Ray Norris, guitar; "Doc" Hamilton, bass; and Phil Nimmons, clarinet). File includes a second piano part for a jazz trio arrangement.

Please (254) : music for jazz ensemble

File contains parts for the Ray Norris Quintette (Jackie Williamson, drums and vibraphone; "Bud" Henderson, piano; Ray Norris, guitar; "Doc" Hamilton, bass; and Phil Nimmons, clarinet).

Zigeuner (426) : music for jazz ensemble

File contains parts for the Ray Norris Quintette (Jack "Jackie" Williamson, drums and vibraphone; "Bud" Henderson, piano; Ray Norris, guitar; "Doc" Hamilton, bass; and Phil Nimmons, clarinet).

Music for radio and television

Series consists of incidental music for orchestra and music for jazz ensemble that Phil Nimmons composed, arranged, and orchestrated for various radio and television programs, predominantly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

CBC Wednesday night

Subseries consists of scripts, scores, and parts for the weekly radio program "CBC Wednesday Night," later rebranded "CBC Wednesday Night" and finally "CBC Tuesday Night". Phil Nimmons regularly wrote incidental music for radio plays broadcast on this program.

The land of lost content : incidental music for radio play for orchestra

File contains script, scores, and parts for a radio play biography of A.E. Housman by John Reeves. File also includes a sheet of financial calculations. Musical numbers include:

  • When I was one-and twenty
  • Loveliest of trees
  • Look not in my eyes
  • Think no more lad
  • The Lads in their hundreds
  • Madrigal / Francesco Landino [Landini].

Autumn : an anthology : incidental music for orchestra and chorus

File contains scripts, scores, and parts for a CBC broadcast on October 31, 1951 with the script by Alan Anderson and production by J. Frank Willis. Musical numbers include:

  • Bringing in the sheaves
  • Autumn evening
  • Brown October ale
  • Widdicombe Fair
  • Hymn of Thanksgiving.

Cottage for sale : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the scripts, score, and parts for a CBC broadcast on August 10, 1955. The script is by Len Peterson. The file also includes a letter from the Toronto Musicians Association regarding complaints.

Rural living : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the script, score, and cues for a CBC radio broadcast on June 25, 1952. Script compiled by Allan Anderson. Score includes "Spring Plowing," "The Boll Weevil," "The Keeper," "Red Rosey Bush," and "Green Pastures."

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