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University of Toronto Music Library John Beckwith fonds
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Basic music

File contains a compact disc labeled "Basic Music."
Event title : Basic Music
Sponsors : Guelph Spring Festival
Participants : Guelph Children's singers, director Linda Beaupré ; St. Mary's Children's Choir, director Eileen Baldwin ; Bath Children's Chorus of Scarborough, director Linda Beaupré ; Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra ; Lydia Adams, conductor.

Back to Bolivia

File contains a compact disc labeled "Back to Bolivia."
Event title : Let's hear it from Beckwith
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Peter Stoll, Max Christie, Michele Verheul, David Bourque, clarinets.

Arts and Letters Club of Toronto

File contains two compact discs labeled "John Beckwith Arts and Letters Club."
Event title : Arts and Letters Club Awards Night
Sponsors : Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
Performers : William Aide, piano ; Colin Ainsworth, tenor ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Alison Beckwith, soprano ; Juliet Beckwith, soprano ; Larry Beckwith, violin ; Robin Eliott, speaker ; Alice Ping Lee Ho, speaker ; Doug MacNaughton, baritone ; Rick Phillips, master of ceremonies ; Mark Widner, piano ; Monica Whicher, soprano.
Tracks :

  • Serenade
  • J'ai perdu mon amant
  • excerpts from Stacey
  • three Etudes for piano
  • College Airs
  • Three Beckett Songs
  • Let it go
  • Young man from Canada
  • Sonatina on Mairi's Wedding
  • Un Canadien errant.

Arctic dances ; A new pibroch

File contains a compact disc labeled "Musikon, Halifax."
Event title : Musikon
Sponsor : Musikon
Tracks and performers : Arctic Dances (Suzanne Lemieux, Barbara Pritchard) A New Pibroch (Glen Coolen, D'Arcy Gray, Jennifer Jones, Celested Jankowski, Anne Simons, Susan Skayle, Isabelle Fournier, Hilary Brown, Max Kaspar ; Bob Bauer, conductor)

After Simpson

File contains a compact disc labeled "John Beckwith : After Simpson."
Sponsor : Women's Music Club of Toronto
Performers : Mélisande Corriveau, Alison Melville, recorders ; Margaret Little, Susie Napper, viole da gamba

Wind music

File contains a compact disc titled "Let's Hear it from Beckwith."
Event title : Let's Hear it from Beckwith
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Dianne Aitken, Robert Aitken, flutes ; Keith Atkinson, oboe ; Max Christie, Peter Stoll, Michele Verheul, David Bourque, clarinets ; Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon ; Joan Watson, horn ; Gillian MacKay, James Gardiner, trumpets ; John Jasavala, trombone ; Cameron Rawlins, euphonium ; Mark Tetreault, tuba ; Teri Dunn, soprano ; John Beckwith, piano.

Wendake / Huronia

File contains a compact disc titled "Wendake/Huronia."
Event title : Kanatha/Canada : First Encounters
Sponsors : Toronto Consort
Performers : Laura Pudwell, mezzo soprano ; Georges Sioui, narrator ; Toronto Consort ; Toronto Chamber Choir (Lucas Harris, music director) ; Member of the Brookside Music Association, Midland (John French, music director) ; Shirley Hay, singer and drummer ; Marilyn George, singer and drummer ; David Fallis, conductor.

A new pibroch : premiere

File contains a compact disc titled "A New Pibroch."
Event title : Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Michael Grey, Highland pipes ; Trevor Tureski, percussion ; Fujiko Imagishi, Annalee Patipatanakoon, Jennifer Thompson, violins ; Jeewon Kim, Javier Portero, violas ; David Hetherington, cello ; Roberto Occhipinti, double bass

Ut re mi fa sol la

File contains a compact disc titled "Ut re mi fa sol la."
Event title : Peter Higham, guitar
Sponsor : Mount Allison University
Performers : Peter Higham, Danise Ferguson.

Three brass rings

File contains a compact disc titled "Three Brass Rings."
Event title : University of Toronto Brass Ensemble
Sponsors : University of Toronto Faculty of Music
Performers : University of Toronto Brass Ensemble ; Gillian MacKay, conductor.

Taptoo!

File contains 3 compact discs titled "Taptoo! - excerpts from workshop performance."
Event title : Taptoo! - excerpts from workshop performance
Participants : John Hess, music director ; Mark Pedrotti, baritone, Major John Graves Simcoe ; Noel Bryant, treble voice, Ebeneezer (the boy) ; Torin Chiles, tenor, Rebel 1, Seth (the man) ; Deantha Rae Edmunds, soprano, Hartley, Atahentsic ; Darryl Edwards, tenor, Adjutant, Ranger 1, Mackay, George III, Soldier 1 ; Dennies Giesbrecht, tenor, Soldier 2, Rebel Officer, Ebeneezer (the man) ; Steven Horst, baritone, Drum Major, Jarvis, Felswad, House Speaker, Soldier ; Lori Klassen, mezzo soprano, Mrs. Harple, Mrs. Felswad, Sgt at Arms ; Lisa Lindo, soprano, Sentinel, Woman 2, Lakeman ; Paul Massel, baritone, Col. Wayne, Parson ; Garth Millar, treble voice, Boy 2, Williams, Seth Jr. ; Robert Milne, bass-baritone, Jesse Harple, Rebel 2, Soldier 1, Sgt. ; Jackalyn Pipher, soprano, Woman 1, Mrs. Jarvis ; Laura Pudwell, mezzo soprano, Woman 3, Mrs. Simcoe ; Paul Shopiro, treble voice, Seth (the boy) ; Simon Clemo, stage manager ; Leslie Dala, accompanist, vocal Coach ; Beverly Johnston and Ken Purvis, percussionists ; Simon Clemo, sound effects.

Taptoo!

File contains a two compact discs titled "Taptoo!": Act 1 and Act 2.
Event title: Taptoo!, first public reading
Participants : John Hess, music director ; Mark Pedrotti, baritone, Major John Graves Simcoe ; Noel Bryant, treble voice, Ebeneezer (the boy) ; Torin Chiles, tenor, Rebel 1, Seth (the man) ; Deantha Rae Edmunds, soprano, Hartley, Atahentsic ; Darryl Edwards, tenor, Adjutant, Ranger 1, Mackay, George III, Soldier 1 ; Dennies Giesbrecht, tenor, Soldier 2, Rebel Officer, Ebeneezer (the man) ; Steven Horst, baritone, Drum Major, Jarvis, Felswad, House Speaker, Soldier ; Lori Klassen, mezzo soprano, Mrs. Harple, Mrs. Felswad, Sgt at Arms ; Lisa Lindo, soprano, Sentinel, Woman 2, Lakeman ; Paul Massel, baritone, Col. Wayne, Parson ; Garth Millar, treble voice, Boy 2, Williams, Seth Jr. ; Robert Milne, bass-baritone, Jesse Harple, Rebel 2, Soldier 1, Sgt. ; Jackalyn Pipher, soprano, Woman 1, Mrs. Jarvis ; Laura Pudwell, mezzo soprano, Woman 3, Mrs. Simcoe ; Paul Shopiro, treble voice, Seth (the boy) ; Simon Clemo, stage manager ; Leslie Dala, accompanist, vocal Coach ; Beverly Johnston and Ken Purvis, percussionists ; Simon Clemo, sound effects.

Tanu

File contains a compact disc titled "Tanu."
Event title : Canadian Music Concert
Sponsor : McGill University Music Faculty
Performers : Jessica Wise, soprano ; Nora Simard-Saint-Cyr, flute ; Andrea Steward, cello.

Singing Synge

File contains a compact disc titled "Singing Synge [premiere]."
Event title : Arts and Letters Club
Sponsors : Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
Performers : Doug MacNaugton, baritone ; William Aide, piano.

Night blooming cereus

File contains a compact disc titled "Night Blooming Cereus."
Event title : Night Blooming Cereus [CBC Radio broadcast]
Sponsor : CBC radio
Performers : Anne Stephenson, Alice ; Patricia Snell, Jean Marie-Scott, 1st and 2nd girls ; Patricia Rideout, Mrs. Brown ; Irene Byatt, Mrs. Wool ; Alexander Gray, Ben ; Evelyn Gould, Barbara ; Bernard Johnson, Mr. Orchard ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor.

Night blooming cereus

File contains a compact disc titled "Night Blooming Cereus."
Event title : Night Blooming Cereus [CBC Radio broadcast]
Sponsor : CBC radio
Performers : Anne Stephenson, Alice ; Patricia Snell, Jean Marie-Scott, 1st and 2nd girls ; Patricia Rideout, Mrs. Brown ; Irene Byatt, Mrs. Wool ; Alexander Gray, Ben ; Phyllis Antognini, Barbara ; Bernard Johnson, Mr. Orchard ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor.

Music for voice, 1949-1999

File contains a compact disc titled "John Beckwith : Music for Voice, 1949-99."
Event title : Music for Voice, 1949-99
Sponsors : Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Performers : Kathryn Domoney, Teri Dunn, Laura Pudwell, Benjamin Butterfield, Doug MacNaghton, William Aide, John Beckwith, Margaret Gay, Beverley Johnston, Jeffrey MacFadden, Colin Savage.
Contents :

  • The Great Lakes Suite
  • A Chaucer Suite (excerpts)
  • The Shivaree (excerpts)
  • Six Songs to Poems by e.e. cummings (excerpts)
  • Old Meg Merillees
  • Crazy to Kill (excerpts)
  • A Birthday Greeting for HARRy FREEDmAn
  • Taptoo! (excerpts).

A new pibroch

File contains a compact disc titled "A New Pibroch : Master."
Event title : Pioneers! Oh Pioneers!
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Michael Grey, Highland pipes ; Accordes String Quartet ; Robert Aitken, conductor.

Music for dancing : for orchestra

File contains a compact disc titled "Beckwith : Music for Dancing."
Event title : Convocation Hall
Sponsors : Royal Conservatory Summer School Orchestra
Performers : Royal Conservatory Summer School Orchestra ; Victor Feldbrill, conductor.

Merton duets

File contains a compact disc titled "Recital, Domoney & Soulis."
Event title : Recital, Domoney and Soulis
Performers : Kathryn Domoney, Maria Souls, sopranos.

Light work

File contains a compact disc titled "Beckwith : Light Work."
Event title : Mather concert, Montreal
Sponsor : Bruce Mather
Performers : Paul Helmer and Bruce Mather, sixteenth-tone piano duet.

Jonah

File contains a compact disc titled "Jonah."
Event title : Jonah [CBC Radio broadcast]
Sponsor : Festival Singers of Toronto
Performers : Festival Singers of Toronto and Instrumental Ensemble ; Patricia Rideout, mezzo soprano, narrator ; Alexander Gray, baritone, Jonah ; Glenn Gardiner, bass, God ; Gordon Wry, tenor, ship-master.

Fractions

File contains 3 CDS, two titled "John Beckwith - Fractions" and one titled "Mather CD no. 2."
Event title : A Ninety-Seven Note Octave
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Bruce Mather, sixteenth-tone piano ; Accordes String Quartet (Fujiko Imajishi, Carol Lynn Fukino, Doug Perry, David Hetherington).

Four short songs

File contains a compact disc titled "Four Short Songs."
Event title : Patrick Bowman, student recital
Sponsor : University of Western Ontario
Performers : Patrick Bowman, Brian Cho.
File includes a handwritten letter and program from Patrick Bowman.

Folksong arrangement

File contains a compact disc titled "Talk on Folk Song Arrangement."
Event : Illustrated talk
Sponsor : Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Participants : John Beckwith, speaker and piano ; Lorna MacDonald, soprano.

Figural Chorales : sets 1, 2, 3

  • OTUFM 10-F-21
  • File
  • February 28, 1993 ; November 10, 1996 ; February 7, 1999
  • Part of John Beckwith fonds

File contains a compact disc titled "Bach: Beckwith."
Event title : Baroque Concert Series.
Sponsor : Symphony Nova Scotia
Conductor : Georg Tintner.
Individual titles : Fifteen Figural Chorales ; Fourteen Figural Chorales, second set ; Sixteen Figural Chorales, third set.

Figural Chorales : set 1

File contains a compact disc titled "Beckwith: Fifteen Figural Chorales."
Event title : Baroque Concert Series
Sponsor : Symphony Nova Scotia
Conductor : Georg Tintner.

A game of bowls

File contains a compact disc titled "Percussion Ensemble Concert."
Event title : Percussion Ensemble Concert
Sponsor : Percussion Ensemble, University of Toronto
Conductor : Robin Engelman.

Eureka

File contains a compact disc titled "Beckwith Eureka."
Event title : John Beckwith, a portrait
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers : Robert Aitken, Keith Atkinson, Raymond Luedeke, Kathleen McLean, Joan Watson, James Spragg, Michael White, Gordon Sweeney, Mark Tetreault.

Duo on H.E.S.A.E.S.

File contains a compact disc titled "Duo on H.E.S.A.E.S."
Sponsor : Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Performers : Curtis Dietz, Melody Stepto, trumpets.

Derailed

File contains a compact disc titled "Derailed."
Event title : Derailed
Sponsor : Mississauga Choral Society
Performers : Mississauga Choral Society ; Mervin Fick, conductor ; Mark Duggan, percussion.

Calling ; Quintet

File contains a compact disc titled "NMC Beckwith."
Event title : Celebrating Beckwith
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Performers :

  • Calling (James Gardiner, flugelhorn ; Vanessa Fralick, Scott Good, tenor trombones ; Cathy Stone, euphonium ; Megan Hodge, bass trombone ; Adam Scime, contrabass)
  • Quintet (Dianne Aitken, flute ; Fraser Jackson, bassoon ; James Gardiner, trumpet ; Doug Perry, viola ; Adam Scime, contrabass).

Boulez

File contains a compact disc titled "Beckwith Boulez."
Event title : Unedited interview
Sponsor : CBC radio

Blurred lines ; Ringaround

File contains a compact disc titled "Bandeen Hall."
Event title : Le parfum des roses dans la nuit
Performers : Larry Beckwith, violin ; Vivienne Spiteri, harpsichord.
Tracks : Blurred line ; Ringaround

Blurred lines ; Lines overlapping ; Ringaround

File contains a compact disc titled "John Beckwith."
Pieces :

  • Blurred lines (Larry Beckwith, violin ; Vivienne Spiteri (Vivie Vincent), harpsichord)
  • Lines overlapping (Kirk Elliott, banjo ; Vivienne Spiteri, harpsichord).
  • Ringaround (Sharlene Wallace, diatonic harp ; Vivienne Spiteri, harpsichord).

Blue continuum

File contains a compact disc labeled "Blue Continuum."
Event title : University of Toronto Faculty of Music New Music Festival
Sponsors : University of Toronto Faculty of Music
Performers : Jens Lindemann, trumpet ; Scott St. John, violin ; Max Mandel, viola ; Shauna Rolston, cello ; John Kruspe, piano.

beep

File contains a compact disc labeled "Beckwith beep."
Event title : Vancouver Chamber Choir
Sponsor : Vancouver Chamber Choir
Performers : Vancouver Chamber Choir ; Jon Washburn, conductor ; Larraine Reinhardt, soprano ; Paul Nash, baritone.

Beckett songs

File contains two copies of a compact disc labeled "21st century troubadour."
Event title : 21st-Century Troubadour
Sponsor : Canadian Opera Company
Performer : Doug MacNaughton, baritone.

80th birthday program

File contains two compact discs titled "Beckwith at 80" and "Birthday program."
Event title : John Beckwith at 80
Sponsor : New Music Concerts
Participants : Kathryn Domoney, soprano ; William Aide, piano ; Colin Ainsworth, tenor ; Amanda Johnston, piano ; Teri Dunn, soprano ; Lawrence Beckwith and Liana Berube, violins ; Anthony Rapoport, viola ; Mary-Katherin Finche, cello ; Laura Pudwell, mezzo-soprano ; Doug MacNaughton, baritone.

Recordings

Series consists of recordings of performances of John Beckwith's compositions, and interviews and lectures by Beckwith.

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