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Fonds consists of the compositions, recordings, and papers of Derek Holman, a former professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. The fonds contains manuscript scores and parts by Derek Holman, including original compositions, arrangements and realizations, juvenilia, and sketch materials; audio and video recordings of Holman’s compositions and performances; papers and photographs from Holman’s work with various choirs and churches (including at the University of London, University of Toronto, University of Trinity College, Bishop-Strachan, Royal School of Church Music, St. Simon’s, Concord Singers, Croydon Bach Society, Grace Church-on-the-Hill, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Company); and, Holman’s personal papers, including awards, certificates, degrees, and notebooks.

File includes recordings of the following:

• Personal message, David Rogers, BBC News, August 6, 1956, RSCM Festival Service (Conclusion)
• Matins broadcast from Addington Palace, 1957 (Howe, Holman, Spence, and Taylor) with sermon by Gerald Knight
• Opening service and speeches from Addington, 1954 by the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Venite, Waikanie Parish Church, New Zealand
• BBC broadcast on J.M. Neale by Cyril Taylor, August 6, 1966
• Sunday Half-Hour
• Personal message, D.J.R. [David Rogers]
• Virgil Fox recording, etc.
• Message
• Evensong from Leicester Cathedral, August 31
• Choral Benediction

Series consists of audio and video recordings of performances by Derek Holman and the choirs that he conducted (including the Choir of Grace Church-on-the-hill, Church of St. Simon the Apostle, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus), and recordings of performances of Derek Holman’s compositions.

File is a recording of the first performance by the Croydon Bach Society of the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, conducted by Derek Holman and recorded by Geoffrey Bartlett. Principal singers were Patricia Andrew, Paula Gladwell, Roger Norrington, David Price, Richard Standen, and Christopher Keyte. Orchestra led by Ralph Nicholson with Guyon Wells, organ and Richard Popplewell, continuo.

File contains a recording of the Croydon Parish Church Choir, with Derek Holman, choirmaster.

File contains a recording of a lecture by Derek Holman given on March 3, 1965 and a performance of St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach on March 20, 1965.

File contains a recording of a performance of the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach.

File contains a recording from the Patronal Festival, including: Praise my soul ; Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan-Williams ; and Hymn to St. John Baptist by Derek Holman.

File contains a recording of a performance by the Festival Singers during Christmas 1970. The performance included Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams and "For Judith's birthday" [by Derek Holman?, January 18, 1971].

File contains a recording of a concert.

File consists of a recording of "Jubilate Deo" (A Festival Service) at St. Paul's Church in Toronto, with Dr. Charles Peaker, John Sidgwick, and Bruce Ubukata, organists; and Dr. Derek Holman, conductor.

Order of service:

• Fanfare. Processional Psalm 121 / Nicholson (St. Simon's Church Choir, E.S. Hanson, conductor)
  1. The approach to God's Presence:
     • Anthem. I was glad when they said unto me; from Psalm 122 / C.H.H. Parry
     • Reading. Genesis 28.10-12, 16 & 17 Jacob's Dream (Rt. Rev. G.B. Snell, Bishop of Toronto)
     • Anthem. O Lord, increase my faith / Orlando Gibbons
     • A litany of reconciliation (Ven. R.P. Dann, Rector of St. Paul's Church)
     • Hymn 12. All people that on Earth do dwell
  2. The Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth
     • Reading. The account of the creation (Arnold Edinborough)
     • Anthem. The heavens declare the Glory of God; from Psalm 19 / W.H. Harris
     • Hymn 39. At the name of Jesus / R. Vaughan Williams
  3. The Lord Jesus Christ
     • Poem. Christ in the universe / Alice Meynell (Dr. Claude Bissell)
     • Anthem. Jesu, joy of man's desiring / J.S. Bach
     • Hymn 281 / Walter MacNutt
  4. The Holy Spirit
     • Reading from the Anglo-Saxon Homily for Whitsuntide
     • Hymn 67 / R. Vaughan Williams
  5. The acclamation
     • Fanfare
     • Anthem. Let their celestial concerts all unite / G.F. Handel
     • Hymn 134 / Herbert Howells.

File includes performances of the following: "Exsurgat Deus" by Johann Pachelbel ; "Angelus ad pastores" by Samuel Scheidt ; "In Pace" by John Blitheman ; "O nata lux" by Thomas Tallis" ; "O Lord the Maker" by William Mundy ; a choral by Ralph Vaughan Williams ; and, "Psalms of David" by Heinrich Schütz.

File contains a recording of a performance of Noye's Fludde, the one-act opera by Benjamin Britten. The performance of Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) was part of the centennial celebrations at Grace Church on-the-Hill, directed by Brenda Robertson Davies with Derek Holman, musical director, and Bruce Ubukata, assistant musical director.

File contains a recording of "Hear my prayer" by Felix Mendelssohn.

File contains a recording from "Homage to John Aubrey," with text selected from Brief Lives by Robertson Davies.

File contains a recording from Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, of a concert by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus with Derek Holman, conductor ; Bruce Ubukata, pianist ; and, Erica Goodman, harp. The performed "Soun of the trumpet", "Carols of French Canada", two Christmas songs, and "Ceremony.

File is a recording from Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, of a concert by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus performing the Christmas Cantata by Vincent Lübeck ; Variations Pastorales by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau ; and carols.

File contains a recording of Derek Holman's arrangement of the "Huron Carol", performed by the Choir of Grace Church-on-the-hill, Toronto and conducted by Holman.

File includes recordings of two Gaudy Nights at Massey College, featuring Homage to John Aubrey (1975) and Homage to Samuel Pepys (1976, many errors).

File consists of a recording of John Holman's cantata Homage to John Aubrey (with text from Aubrey's Brief Lives) which was commissioned by Massey College for performance at Massey College Gaudy Night in honour of Christmas. The performance was conducted by the composer.

File contains excerpts from the Messiah by George Frideric Handel, including "Comfort Ye" to "O Thou that Tellest" and "His yoke is easy".

File is a recording of a performance by the Grace Church Choir, which included Mass in the Time of War by Joseph Haydn and An ode on St. Cecilia's Day by George Frideric Handel.

File contains a recording of a concert at Massey College that featured the world premiere of Samuel Pepys and his Musyck by Derek Holman, as performed by the Massey College Singers, directed by Gordon Wry, and The Haunted Table by Robertson Davies.

File is a recording of a performance of the Messiah by George Frideric Handel by the Grace Church Choir, under the direction of Derek Holman, with the Toronto Chamber Players. The soloists were Lillian Weichel, soprano ; Patricia Harton, alto ; Albert Greer, tenor ; and, Christopher Cameron, bass.

File contains a recording of Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns at the National Arts Centre with Maureen Forrester, John Mitcheson[?], Gary Relyea, and Tim Cruickshank, and the Ottawa Choral Society and Cantata Singers. Brian Law was the conductor of the Cantata Singers of Ottawa from 1965 to 1987 an the conductor of the Ottawa Choral Society from 1967 until 1991.

File is a recording by the Concord Singers, conducted by T. Wollard Harris, of the following: "Come let your hearts be singing" by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi ; "O mistress mine" by Ralph Vaughan Willias ; "Come I pray thee" by William Henry Anderson ; and, "Get to bed," arranged by Derek Healey.

File is a recording of a performance of The Ice Break by Michael Tippett.

File contains a recording of the Grace Church-on-the-hill performance of the Messiah by George Frideric Handel with Isidor Desser, concert master ; R. Landry ; P. Hawton ; J. McLean ; and, C. Cameron.

File contains a recording from Grace Church-on-the-hill, including the Kyrie from Joseph Haydn's Paukenmesse (or, the Missa in tempore belli) and In pace by John Blitheman (a capella).

File contains a recording of Evensong from May 1977, and of a concert with the Canadian Brass (October 2, 1977).

File is a recording of Four folk-songs from Canada by Derek Holman, performed by Theodore Gentry (counter-tenor) and the Galliard Ensemble (Robert Bick, flute ; Douglas Perry, viola ; Paul Pulford, cello). A copy of the program is included with the reel-to-reel tape.

File contains a recording of Judas Maccabeus by George Frideric Handel, featuring Lillian Weichel, Rick Cummingham, Gyln Evans, [James] McLean, and Joel Katz.

File contains a recording of Exultate Deo by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Part 1 of Judas Maccabaeus by George Frideric Handel, as performed at Grace Church-on-the-hill on February 26, 1978 with Lillian Weichel, soprano ; Ricard Cummingham, counter tenor ; James McLean, tenor ; Glyn Evans, tenor ; and Joel Katz, bass.

File contains the following recordings:

• "Hear my prayer" by Felix Mendelssohn (performed with the Choir of Grace Church-on-the-hill with Bruce Ubukata, organ, November 1978)
• "How beautiful are the feet" by Georg Frideric Handel (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• "Come ever smiling liberty" by Georg Frideric Handel (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• "Tell me lovely shepherd" by William Boyce (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• "Softly flow thou silver stream" by Thomas Arne (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• "Lullaby" by Cryil Scott (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• "But thou didst not leave" by Georg Frideric Handel (recorded June 1978 with Bruce Ubukata, piano)
• selections from the Advent carol service on December 3, 1978 with the Choir of Grace Church-on-the-hill.

File consists of recordings from performances by the Choir of Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury, as part of their regular services.

File consists of a recording of the premiere performance of Holman's cantata Homage to Robert Herrick, commissioned with the help of the Ontario Arts Council and performed by the Massey College Singers under the direction of Gordon Wry and Bruce Ubukata. Soloists were Teresa Ryan, Muriel Lessman, John Lehr, and Daniel Neff.