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Margaret Atwood Papers

Contains writing by Atwood, including essays, poetry and speeches. Accession also contains personal and miscellaneous materials
such as writing from other authors and awards. Accession includes correspondence to Atwood, letters and notes stored within books,
as well as publications featuring Atwood’s writing and interview transcripts.

U of T 12tet

File contains a program and recordings from event. Recorded in Walter Hall

Performers: U of T 12tet ; Terry Promane, musical director.

Program:

  • Sweet Dulcinea Blue / Kenny Wheeler, arr. Carter Brodkorb (Solos: Evan Dalling, Carter Brodkorb)
  • Eucalyptus Trees / Zsolt Kaltenecker, arr. Lucas Udvarnoky (Solos: Griff Vona, Harry Bartlett, Kaelin Murphy)
  • Upper Manhattan Medical Group / Billy Strayhorn, arr. Alexander Argatoff (Solos: David Hodgson, Kaelin Murphy, Keith Barstow)
  • Drip / Tigran Hamasyan, arr. Kaelin Murphy (Solo: David Hodgson)
  • Alone Together / Arthur Schwartz, arr. Jacob Slous (Solo: Jacob Chung)
  • Hopeful / Harry Bartlett (Solos: David Hodgson, Harry Bartlett, Kaelin Murphy)
  • Moon Rays / Horace Silver, arr. Nicholas Adema (Solos: Jacob Chung, Nicholas Adema)
  • All or Nothing at All / Arthur Altman, arr. Keith Barstow (Solos: David Hodgson, Keith Barstow)

Mansfield park / Jonathan Dove

File consists of a program for the University of Toronto Opera production of Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove, libretto by Alasdair Middleton. The opera was scheduled for 4 performances (March 12-15) in MacMillan Theatre but the March 14 and 15 performances were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Performers: Sandra Horst, conductor ; Tim Albery, director ; Michelle Tracey, set design ; Lisa Magill, costume design ; Wesley McKenzie, lighting and video design ; John Sharpe, surtitles ; Kristin McCollum, stage manager ; Kate Carver, assistant conductor ; Mario Pacheco, assistant director ; Ardavan Taraporewala, assistant stage manager ; Brandon Tran, Benjamin Zsoldos, repetiteurs.

Now and then : a celebration of the Broadway musical

File consists of a program from the concert, which featured singers from the Faculty of Music under the guidance of guest coach Beau Dixon. The concert was broadcast on the Faculty of Music YouTube channel.

Program:

  • Cabaret. Maybe this time / John Kander, Fred Ebb (Tiffanie Samuels, voice and piano)
  • Take a chance. Should I be sweet? / Vincent Youmans, B.G. De Sylva (Camille Labonte, voice ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Chess. Anthem / Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice (Alekzander Rosolowski, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • The last five years. Climbing uphill / Jason Robert Brown (Megan O'Donnell, voice ; Hyejin Kwon, piano)
  • The light in the piazza. The beauty is / Adam Guettel, Craig Lucas (Abigail Sinclair, voice ; Benjamin Kersey, piano)
  • Dear Evan Hansen. Only us / Justin Paul, Benj Pasek (Anna Tanczak, Antos Blonski-Mendez, voice ; Jonah Nung, piano)
  • You're a good man Charlie Brown. Do you know something, Schroeder? / Clark Gesner (Sunny Sheffman, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • Into the woods. Agony / Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, arr. Battista, Guselle (Madeleine Battista, Olivia Guselle, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • Dogfight. Pretty funny / Justin Paul, Benjk Pasek (Gabrielle Turgeon, voice ; Anna Louise-Turgeon, piano)
  • The last five years. A Summer in Ohio / Jason Robert Brown (Olivia Spahn-Vieira, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • Waitress. She used to be mine / Sara Bareilles, Hugh Wheeler (Renee Fajardo)
  • Sweeney Todd. Green finch and linnet bird / Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (Emily Rocha, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • Thoroughly modern Millie. Not for the life of me / Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan (Amelia Depiero, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • Songs for a new world. I'm not afraid of anything / Jason Robert Brown (Kathleen Kovacs)
  • The sound of music. Maria / Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein (Leandra Dahm, Francesca Hauser, Sarah Mole, Anika Venkatesh ; Tom King, piano)
  • Dear Evan Hansen. Waving through a window / Justin Paul, Benj Pasek (Ana Isabella Castro, voice ; Tom King, piano)
  • The secret garden. Lily's eyes / Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman (Jamal al Titi, Rayleigh Becker, voice ; Tom King, piano).

U of T Opera spotlight on diversity

File consists of a program from the concert, rescheduled from March 26, 2021, which was curated by Korin Thomas-Smith.

Program:

  • Azan on a Toronto streetcar / Alex Sandoval (Elias Theocharidis, tenor ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Introduction (Korin Thomas-Smith
  • Don Giovanni. La ci darem la mano / W.A. Mozart (David Walsh, tenor ; Luke Noftall, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • L'hiver attends beaucoup de moi. Ah, les murmures / Laurence Jobidon (Lindsay Conolly, mezzo-soprano ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • L'amant anonyme. Ah! Quel trouble m'agite! /Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Noelle Slaney, soprano ; Angelo Moretti, tenor ; Alex Matthews, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Cask of Amontillado. First scene / Julia Perry (Nicholas Higgs, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • A Bayou legend. Now they will be coming to the tree / William Grant-Still (Melissa Danis, soprano ; Sandra horst, piano)
  • Troubled island. I dream a world / William Grant Still (Korin Thomas-Smith, baritone; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Noli me tangere. Act 3, scene 2 / Felipe Padilla de Leon (Renee Fajardo, mezzo-soprano ; Danlie Rae Acebuque, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Ernestine. O, Clemagis / Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Juliana Krajcovic, soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Tearless. Excerpts / Robert Owens (Parker Clements, baritone ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Margaret Atwood Songs. Memory / Tania Leon (Sacha Smith, soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Night / Florence Price (Alex Hetherington ; Andrea Grant piano)
  • Patience and Sarah. I want to live , I want to paint / Paula Kimper (Melissa Danis, soprano ; Alexandra Fee, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Patience and Sarah. Finale / Paula Kimper (Heidi Duncan, soprano ; Alessia Vitali, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • I will lift up mine eyes. I will lift up mine eyes / Adolphus Hailstork (Elias Theocharidis, David Walsh, Angelo Moretti, tenors ; artists of U of T Opera ; Sandra Horst, piano).

Celebrating our diversity : the road home

File consists of a program from the concert, presented by Voice Studies at the University of Toronto. The concert was broadcast online.

Program:

  • Linstead market / Traditional Jamaican mento song, arr. Anne Louise-Turgeon, inspired by Miss Lou (Gabrielle Turgeon, soprano ; Anne Louise-Turgeon, piano ; Corinne Turgeon, cello)
  • Ninveh / William Dnaiel (Janelle Yausif, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Pari Arakil / Aleqsey Heqimyan, Ashod Krashi (Taline Yeremian, mezzo-soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Becha = Spring / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Aleksey Pleshcheyev (Dasha Tereschenko, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Drei jiddische Lieder, op. 53. Margaritkelech ; Mejdl in di Johren / Viktor Ullman (Carly Naimer, mezzo-soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Marie / Ron Hynes (Megan O'Donnell, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Le Le Yaman / Komitas Vardapet (AlexaFrankian, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Steal away / Traditional African-American spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh (Ineza Mugisha, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Over the rainbow / Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg (William Salinas-Crosby, tenor ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano).

Festival of song presents Songs of hope and comfort

File consists of a program from the concert, which featured pre-recorded performances by U of T Music Students, under the guidance of Steven Blier, guest coach and a John R. Stratton Visitor in Music. The concert was streamed on YouTube.

Program:

  • Six songs from a Shropshire lad. Loveliest of trees / George Butterworth, A.E. Housman (Dnate Mullin Santone, baritone ; Pascal Menke, piano)
  • Three Browning songs. The year's at the Spring / Amy Beach, Robert Browning (Alina Tigelman, soprano ; Bryn Blackwood, piano)
  • The house of life. Silent noon / Ralph Vaughan Williams, DanteGabriel Rossetti (Cameron Martin, baritone ; Joy Lee, piano
  • Reve d'amour, op. 5, no. 2 / Gabriel Faure, Victor Hugo (Chihiro Yasufuku, soprano ; Ryoko Hou, piano)
  • Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 / Franz Schubert, Friedrich Ruckert (Roanna Kitchen, soprano ; Gina Lee, piano)
  • Im Haine, D. 738 / Franz Schubert, Franz von Bruchmann (Anna Boyes, soprano ; Dakota-Scott Digout, piano)
  • The poet and the war. Dark lullaby / Norbert Palej, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski (Amanda Singh, soprano ; Grace Shin, piano)
  • Soir d'hiver / Nadia Boulanger (Stephanie McKay-Turgeon, soprano ; Joy Lee, piano)
  • Genius child. To be somebody / Rick Ian Gordon, Langston Hughes (Rhian Merritt, soprano ; Anna Han, piano)
  • Six songs. Oh, you whom I often and silently come / James Rolfe, Walt Whitman (Francesca Hauser, mezzo-soprano ; Charlie Carrier, piano)
  • Natural selection. Joy alone (connection) / Jake Heggie, Gini Savage (Madelaine Battista, soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)
  • Sure on this shining night, op. 13, no. 3 / Samuel Barber, James Agee (Ana-Isabella Castro, soprano ; Charlie Carrier, piano)
  • Die Liebende schreibt, op. 86, no. 3 / Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Rayna Crandlemire, soprano ; Joy Lee, piano)
  • Ariette, op. 1, no. 4 / Amy Beach, Percy Shelley (Grace Liang, soprano ; Ryoko Hou, piano)
  • Shadow of the blues. Litany / John Musto, Langston Hughes (Kristian Lo, baritone ; Vladimir Soloviev, piano)
  • The faces of love. I shall not live in vain / Jake Heggie, Emily Dickinson (Alexa Frankian, soprano ; Pascal Menke, piano)
  • Miss. Wheatley's garden. Songs for the people / Rosephanye Powell, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Amelia Depiero, soprano ; Vladimir Soloviev, piano).

Master class with Joyce DiDonata : historical performance and opera students

File consists of a recording of the master class, which was streamed on the Faculty of Music YouTube channel. Joyce DiDonata was a John R. Stratton Visitor in Music.

Program:

  • Werther. Werther! Qui m'aurait dit la place / J. Massenet (Lindsay Connolly, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Turandot. Tu che di gel sei cinta / G. Puccini (Lauren Estey, soprano ; Ivan Jovanovic, piano)
  • La traviata. E strano...Ah! fors'e lui...Sempre libera / G. Verdi (Noelle Slaney, soprano ; Dr. Phi Roberts, piano)
  • Giulio Cesare. Piangero la sorte mia / G.F. Handel (Lindsay McIntyre, soprano ; Ivan Jovanovic, piano)
  • I puritani. Or dove fuggo io mai...Ah! per sempre io ti perdei! / V. Bellini (Parker Clements, baritone ; Sandra Horst, piano).

Vocalini : a portrait of our graduating students

File consists of program from of the concert, which featured pre-recorded performances by 4th-year performance students in the Voice Studies program. The concert was streamed on YouTube.

Program:

  • Ariodante. Il primo ardor / G.F. Handel (Sunny Sheffman, soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Peches de viellesse. Tirana alla spagnola / Gioachino Rossini (Emily Rocha, soprano ; Joy Lee, piano)
  • Seste romanze I. Non t'accostare all'urna / Giuseppe Verdi (Dayie Chung, soprano ; Hyefin Kwon, piano)
  • La fille du regiment. Chacun le sait / Gaetano Donizetti (Madelaine Battista, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284, no. 1 / Franz Liszt (Elizabeth Legierski, soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)
  • Psyche / Emile Paladilhe (Nathania Rose Chan, mezzo-soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • Siete canciones populares. El Pano Moruno ; Nana / Manuel de Falla (Ana Isabella Castro, sprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • About here / Errollyn Wallen (Rosemonde Desjardins, soprano ; Stephen Shi, piano)
  • Vanessa. Must the winter come so soon? / Samuel Barber (Anika-France Forget, mezzo-soprano ; Trevor Chartrand, piano)
  • Miss. Wheatley's Garden. A Winter twilight / Rosephanye Powell (Amelia Depiero, soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Love let the wind cry...How I adore thee / Undine Smith Moore (Olivia Spahn Vieira, soprano ; Futian Yao, piano).

Vocalis 1: What's new with you?

File consists of a program from a concert by master's and doctoral level singers, which was broadcast on the Faculty of Music YouTube channel.

Program:

  • Evocations / Harry Somers (Roanna Kitchen, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • Five Shakespeare songs. Music the comforter ; Titania's henchman ; Come buy! / Colin Eatock (Roanna Kitchen, soprano ; Trevor Chartrand, piano)
  • Where there's a wall. Grief poem / Ian Cusson (Stephanie McKay-Turgeon, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • The house of tomorrow / John Greer (Celine Cascanette, mezzo-soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Ours. May's aria / John Estacio (Rhian Merritt, soprano ; Anna Han, piano)
  • Flight. Down you go / Jonathan Dove (Alexandra Delle Donne, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • Three songs / Matthew Emery (Grace Liang, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • Four lyrical moments / Norbert Palej (Nicole Percifield, mezzo-soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano).

Vocalis 2 : Sing the body electric : Expanding your performance frontiers

File consists of a program from a concert that featured master's and doctoral level singers.

Program:

  • Glory denied. My darling Jim / Tom Cipullo (Vanessa Oude-Reimerink, soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Anita, op. 41, no. 1 / Amy Beach (Grace Liang, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • The Summer wind, op. 14, no. 1 / Amy Beach (Grace Liang, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • The blackbird, op. 11, no. 3 / Amy Beach (Grace Liang, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • Mignon-Lieder. Kenns du das Land? ; So laßt mich scheinen / Hugo Wolf (Sinead White, soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • The telephone. Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you / Gian Carlo Menotti (Alexandra Delle Donne, soprano ; Jo Greenaway, piano)
  • What can we poor females do? / Henry Purcell (Celine Cascanette, mezzo-soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Fairest isle / Henry Purcell (Celine Cascanette, mezzo-soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano)
  • Bess of Bedlam / Henry Purcell (Celine Cascanette, mezzo-soprano ; Suzy Smith, piano).

Joyce El-Khoury : Riki Turofsky master class in voice

File consists of a program from a master class led by Joyce El-Khoury, the Riki Turofsky Master Class in Voice.

Program:

  • Rigoletto. Caro nome che il mio cor / G. Verdi (Heidi Duncan, soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Don Pasquale. Bella siccome un angelo / G. Donizetti (Alex Mathews, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Cendrillon. Coeur sans amour / J. Massenet (Alessia Vitali, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • La rondine. Chi il bel sogno di Doretta / G. Puccini (Juliana Krajcovic, soprano ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Herodiade. Vision fugitive / J. Massenet (Danlie Rae Acebuque, baritone ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos. Lieben, hassen / R. Strauss (Nicholas Higgs, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano).

Vocalis 3: Music to the Distanced Beloved

File consists of a program from a concert that featured master's and doctoral level singers.

Program:

  • Trois romances / Zoe de la Rue (Sinead White, soprano ; Rosemary Soenen, harp)
  • Zwei Gesange, op. 91 / Johannes Brahms (Nicole Percifield, mezzo-soprano ; Jacob Clewell, viola ; Vlad Soloviev, piano)
  • Deidamia. Ai Greci questa spada / Georg Friedrich Handel (Alexandra Delle Donne, soprano ; Lucy Warren, May Yu, violin ; Matthew Chan, viola ; Gretchen Lee, cello ; David Eliakis, piano)
  • Three songs / Frank Bridge (Simone Hogeveen, mezzo-soprano ; Jacob Clewell, viola ; Vlad Soloviev, piano)
  • Chansons de mon placard / Peter Tiefenbach (Rhian Merritt, soprano ; Eileen Walsh, clarinet ; Mary Castello, piano).

Winners' recital : Jim and Charlotte Norcop prize in song and Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky prize in accompanying

File consists of the pre-recorded performance.

Performers: Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano

Program:

  • O mistress mine / Ana Sokolovic
  • Gruß ; Møte ; Ich liebe dich ; Et Hab / Edvard Grieg
  • Irish poems for Maureen / Jean Coulthard
  • Atwood songs / Tania Leon
  • Selections from op. 27. Ruhe, meine Seele ; Heimliche Aufforderung ; Morgen! / Richard Strauss
  • I'll be seeing you / Sammy Fain.

U of T Opera presents : A little night music

File consists of a program from the concert, which (unless otherwise indicated) took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Sandra Horst, conductor ; Russell Braun, narrator ; Michael Albano, Mario Pachevo, directors ; Andrea Grant, Vladimir Soloviev, piano ; Wesley McKenzie, set, lighting, and projection design ; Lisa Magill, costume design ; James Bolton, hair and makeup ; Christina Bell, producer ; Banana Camera (Ken Ng, Dave Kennedy), filming ; Kai Masaoka, audio technician ; Dave Kennedy, editing.

Program:

  • Al little night music. A weekend in the country / Stephen Sondheim (Alessia Vitali, Juliana Krajcovic, Parker Clements, Alexandra Fee, Melissa Danis, Alex Mathews, Lindsay Connolly, Angelo Moretti)
  • Cosi fan tutte. Soave sia il vento / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Heidi Duncan, Lindsay Connolly, Danlie Rae Acebuque)
  • Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Giuseppe Puccini (Noelle Slaney ; filmed in St. John's Newfoundland ; Dr. Phil Roberts, piano ; Noelle Slaney, filming and editing)
  • Into the woods. It takes two / Stephen Sondheim (Sacha Smith, Nicholas Higgs ; filmed in Toronto and Lindsay, Ontario ; Sacha Smith and Nicholas Higgs, filming and editing)
  • Rigoletto. Bella figlia dell'amore / Giuseppe Verdi (Heidi Duncan, Alessia Vitali, Angelo Moretti, Alex Matthews)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia. Zitti, zitti, piano, piano (Alex Hetherington, David Walsh, Danlie Rae Acebuque)
  • I pagliacci. Nedda/Silvio duet / R. Leoncavallo (Juliana Krajcovic, Parker Clements)
  • Company. Getting married today / Stephen Sondheim (Alex Hetherington, David Walsh, Angelo Moretti)
  • La boheme. Dunque e proprio finita!...Addio, dolce svegliare / Giuseppe Puccini (Melissa Danis, Sacha Smith, Elias Theocharidis, Luke Noftall ; filmed in Toronto and Woodbridge, Ontario, and Fredericton, New Brunswick ; Elias Theocharidis and Sacha Smith, editing)
  • Merrily we roll along. Our time / Stephen Sondheim (Danlie Rae Acebuque, Heidi Duncan, Renee Fajardo).

Master class with Lawrence Brownlee, tenor : art song master class

File consists of recordings and the program for master class led by Lawrence Brownlee, tenor, as the John R. Stratton Visitor in Music (October 6-8, 2020). Performances were recorded in Walter Hall and live-streamed on the Faculty of Music's YouTube channel.

Program:

  • On this island. Let the florid music praise / Benjamin Britten (Morgan Reid, soprano ; Vladimir Soloviev, piano)
  • Trois chansons de Bilitis. La chevelure / Claude Debussy (Lissy Meyerowitz, mezzo-soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)
  • The hermit songs. St. Ita's vision / Samuel Barber (Leandra Dahm, soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)
  • Ruckert Lieder. Liebst du um Schonheit / Gustav Mahler (Rianna Robinson, soprano ; Vladimir Soloviev, piano)
  • Brentano Lieder. Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden / Richard Strauss (Maeve Palmer, soprano ; Vladimir Soloviev, piano)
  • The red, red heart. My mother's hands / John Greer (Anna Caroline Boyes, soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)

Bata Shoe Company Papers

Includes corporate files from the Canadian Bata Shoe Company (including correspondence; legal and financial records; product development, marketing and promotional files; technical and production-related files, and human resources files). The bulk of the material was created by the Canadian Bata company, however many records relate to several of the organization’s international outposts, including companies headed in Africa, India, Asia and Europe. The collection also includes press clippings and other publications about the Bata Company and its historical significance. There are also a small number of Bata family records, primarily for Thomas J. Bata (1914-2008), Sonja I. Bata, Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932) and Marie Bata.

Coach House Press Papers

This is the first accession of the Coach House Press (CHP) papers by the Fisher Library. It primarily includes files accumulated and maintained by Stan Bevington, founder of the CHP. (While Library and Archives Canada holds a significant amount of Coach House Press materials, Bevington held back many of his own personal files related to CHP, with the intention of donating them to the Fisher Library). The papers include accounting materials for the Press–price quotes, sales invoices, payroll information, etc. –and other materials related to the running of the CHP. It also includes material collected by Bevington, dubbed “Stan’s ephemera,” which contain handwritten notes written by Bevington, as well as correspondence, programs and other assorted and interesting items.
The collection is particularly noteworthy for its extensive collection of computer-related material, including the files for SoftQuad, the company co-founded by Bevington that was at the forefront of the digital age in publishing. Bevington is considered a publishing pioneer in the transition to digital technology from traditional typesetting.

Coach House Press

[Music instruction manual]

Item is a digitized copy of the microfilm of Henry Frost's manual in three parts: Time ; Melody or Succession of Sounds according to Pitch ; Expression or Force and Delivery of Sounds.

Jo Beverley Papers

This accession of Jo Beverley’s papers includes manuscript drafts for A Lady’s Secret (2008), The Secret Wedding (2009), The Raven and the Rose (2014), The Viscount Needs a Wife (2016) and other writing drafts; research and other files for novels; promotional materials; correspondence; personal documents including drawings; memorabilia; contracts; royalties; audiobooks; and a USB hard drive containing thousands of files; and other material relating to her life and work.

Contains series:

  1. Manuscripts
  2. Research and other files relating to novels
  3. Promotional materials, reviews, book covers
  4. Correspondence
  5. Personal documents and memorabilia
  6. Contracts and royalties
  7. Audiovisual and other files

Don Bailey Papers

This accession includes personal correspondence; audiovisual materials; and 160 floppy disks containing manuscript drafts, story drafts, journal entries, projects, notes, correspondence, foster children’s files, and other items relating to the life and work of Don Bailey.
Contains series:

-Correspondence
-Other Files
-Audiovisual Materials

Elspeth Cameron Papers

This accession of Elspeth Cameron’s papers includes manuscript drafts, research and other files for A Tale of Two Divas: The Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada’s Edwardian West (2016), and other professional and personal files relating to her life and work.

Contains series:

  1. Manuscript and files relating to A Tale of Two Divas: The Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada’s Edwardian West
  2. Research for A Tale of Two Divas: The Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada’s Edwardian West
  3. Other writing
  4. Personal and professional files
  5. Audiovisual materials and other files

Eric Wright Papers

Includes, variously, drafts and edited drafts of published and unpublished works, correspondence, reviews, notes, and other material related to a number of short stories and the following novels: “The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn”, “A Likely Story”, “Finding Home”, “Dempsey’s Lodge”, and “The Land Mine” (1998-2015). Also includes business correspondence with, and royalty reports from publishers, correspondence and other materials related to a proposed film/television adaptation of “The Night the Gods Smiled”, a number of clippings of Wright’s short stories and essays that appeared in magazines and newspapers (including three translated stories from European publications), clippings of feature articles about or mentioning Wright from newspapers and magazines, and cassette tapes containing interviews with Wright and a 1985 CBC reading of “The Night the Gods Smiled” (1984-2015). This collection also includes some personal correspondence, fan mail, photographs, and memorabilia (193?-199?), personal/travel journals ranging between 1976 and 2010, and appointment calendars for 1991- 2015.

Eric Ormsby Papers

Includes proofs, photographs (New York City, 1967), holograph notebooks, printed appearances in numerous journals such as The New Criterion; Books in Canada; videotaped appearance at Bentley College, September 2, 2002; David Solway manuscripts; Correspondence with other writers, editors and publishers: John Black; Richard Outram; David Solway; Karen Mulhallen/Descant; Shlomo Dov Goitein; PhD thesis, Princeton; drafts and proofs of Al-Ghazali; gallies, correspondence and cover art for Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems.

Karen Mulhallen Papers

Consists of manuscripts, general correspondence, and various papers relating to Descant magazine. The gift also consists of some of Mulhallen's professional and personal correspondence. Also included are correspondence and manuscripts relating to Modern Love, Herm on Tour, War Surgery and In The Era of Acid Rain.

Karen Mulhallen Papers

January Accession, Boxes 1-9:

A collection of papers relating to the edition and publication of Descant, issues 111-115 (2000-2001). Includes author correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, production files, editorial correspondence and notes, subscription lists, and distribution files. Also includes materials relating to Mulhallens trip to Hungary in 2000, a manuscript of Stan Jonnanesen's "Sister Patsy", author photographs for use in Paper Guitar, a proof of the Descant index, donor files, photographs of events, and magnetic tape backups of computer files (issues 88-99 with gaps).

April-May Accession, Boxes 10-16:

Manuscripts and background materials for Mulhallen's War Surgery (1996), and materials for Descant 113-116, including author correspondence, manuscripts and editorial files.

June Accession, Boxes 17-23:

Manuscripts, correspondence, notes, and background materials relating to Mulhallen's writings, including The Grace of Private Passage, individual poems, essays, reviews, juvenalia, and other writing. Also includes a collection of her printed appearances 1960-2002.

George Elliott Clarke Papers

Includes original holograph notebooks, drafts, research, voluminous correspondence (129 boxes), ephemera, and all manner of material related to the life and work of poet, performer, activist and professor George Elliott Clarke. Major works included: The Motorcyclist; Canticles; Gold; Trudeau; Red/I & I; as well as short pieces; reviews, essays, remarks, lectures, editorial work.

Lawrence Hill Papers

Includes drafts, research, correspondence and other material related to The Book of Negroes, including the screenplay for the televised series and the illustrated edition; interviews for Black Berry, Sweet Juice; notes, drafts, proofs, copy-editing and other material for The Illegal (early title ‘Underground’) forthcoming novel Fall 2015 (fourth novel and tenth book); personal and professional correspondence; appearances; extended family material; awards; photographs; notebooks; community activities; short pieces, including ‘Africville Forever’; Karen Hill’s Café Babanussa; research, various drafts, proofs and appearance material related to The Massey lectures: Blood: the Stuff of Life; The Deserter’s Tale; and other material related to the life, work and family of Lawrence Hill.

Maureen Scott Harris Papers

This accession of Maureen Scott Harris’ papers includes a significant amount of correspondence, both personal and professional. It also contains material relating to the Renga 9 collaborative poetry project, and to a number of Fieldnotes publications: The Original Title by Elizabeth Hay (2016), The Spaces Between by Christina McCallum (2016), and Wilderness on the Page by John Steffler (2017). Also included are numerous drafts of Scott Harris’ works At the Exact Speed Necessary / Learning My Father’s Death (2005-2016), and Waters Remembered (2015), along with travel diaries, personal calendars and photographs, and a number of poetry chapbooks published in Canada.

Contains Series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Literary Projects & Other Writing
  3. Published Works by Scott Harris
  4. Readings & Press Coverage
  5. Personal Material
  6. Audio / visual material
  7. Published works by others
  8. Programmes
  9. Oversized material

Maureen Scott Harris Papers

This accession of Maureen Scott Harris’ papers includes a significant amount of personal correspondence from the 1960s to the present, along with professional correspondence, mainly from 2015. It also contains materials relating to the Renga 10 collaborative poetry project, and to the Abundance chapbook and event, in addition to a number of periodicals in which Scott Harris’ poetry has been published. The collection also includes Scott Harris’ notes from a course taught by Northrup Frye at the University of Toronto in 1982-1983, along with promotional material from Brick Books, and a variety of audio/visual material.

Contains Series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Literary Projects
  3. Published Works
  4. Early Writing & Education
  5. Brick Books Material
  6. Miscellaneous
  7. Audio / Visual Material
  8. Personal Journals (Restricted)

Lorna Goodison Papers

Includes early, unpublished and other drafts of From Harvey River, Controlling the Silver, Turn Thanks, Collected Poems and other material related to the life and work of Lorna Goodison. Includes Goodison’s original sketchbook, and photograph of Lorna Goodison with Lemuel Johnson.

Interview with Leighton Harrell conducted by Hillary Chu

Item is a video recorded interview between Rosemonde Desjardins (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Leighton Harrell (interviewee). Leighton Harrell is a bassist and composer from Raleigh, North Carolina, currently attending the University of Toronto's Jazz Performance program. Leighton has held a biweekly residency at Poetry Jazz Cafe with his quartet since 2019. He has also performed at venues such as The Toronto Jazz Festival, the Kensington Market Jazz Festival, and Toronto Meridian Centre for the Arts. As a composer and artist, Leighton draws inspiration from hymns and spirituals, folk music, and various traditions of Black American Music. Leighton and Hillary's conversation covers topics including Black AMerican Music, colonialism, cultural appropriation, performative diversity, and music pedagogy.

Interview with Ricardo Ferro conducted by Rosemonde Desjardins

Item is a video recorded interview between Rosemonde Desjardins (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Ricardo Ferro (interviewee). Ricardo Ferro is a Venezuelan-Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Ontario. As an emerging composer, Ricardo has written music for and worked with North American ensembles and performers such as the Calidore String Quartet, Oakville Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Younggun Kim. He has written award-winning music for film and theatre for the Sundeis Film Fastival in Boston and the National Theatre School Festival in Canada. In 2019, Ricarod co-founded the Green Room Sound Collective, a contemporary music organization dedicated to the creation and performance of new dramatic and multimedia works of music, and is currently their artistic director. Ricardo is currently pursuing a degree in composition at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Ricardo and Rosemonde's conversation covers topics including eurocentrism in music, music pedagogy, Black Lives Matter, and representation.

Interview with Tara Kannangara conducted by Hillary Chu

Item is a video recorded interview between Hillary Chu (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Tara Kannangara (interviewee). Tara Kannangara is a vocalist and instrumentalist known for her diverse sound. She is a Juno-nominated artist, and holds a degree in Jazz studies from the Unviersity of Toronto. Tara has performed across North America at venues including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and New York City's Jazz Gallery. Tara is currently a sessional teacher at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Music's Jazz program. Tara and Hillary's conversation covers topics including assimilation, gender disparity, music pedagogy, racial inequity, and systemic discrimination.

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