- OTUFM 51-CS20/21-VSS
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- February 23, 2021 - April 5, 2021
Subseries consists of concert events featuring the faculty and students of the voice program.
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Subseries consists of concert events featuring the faculty and students of the voice program.
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
File also includes a recording of Michael Colgrass' WNYC radio interview with Martin Bookspan.
Part of David C. Onley fonds
This series provides a detailed overview of David C. Onley's daily activities as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Activities include events hosted by the Lieutenant Governor, events in which he appeared, community visits, special visits, royal visits, convocation and honorary degree ceremonies, and annual office holiday activities. The series includes daily calendars, detailed daily agendas, and electronic daily records. The daily calendars contain schedules showing dates and times of Onley's appointments and events he attended. Daily agendas include time schedules as well as detailed documentation of Onley's appearances related to duties as Lieutenant Governor. Types of files include 'event scenarios' (instructions and reference information for Onley and staff), event programs, correspondence, speaking notes, objects and mementoes from events (albums, badges, stickers), computer printed contact sheets, photographs and snapshots, and computer disks with photographs and occasionally video. The electronic daily records contain copies of the aforementioned material, including documentation of events in which Ruth Ann Onley appeared or spoke at, and may not be accessible at this time; please contact the Archivist. Series has been kept in original order with exception of oversize material.
Part of David C. Onley fonds
Series contains articles, clippings, magazines, and interviews that feature or mention David C. Onley as Lieutenant Governor. Also includes “Articles of Interest” material collected for David C. Onley about current events and issues.
Series has been kept in its original order, arranged chronologically.
Part of David C. Onley fonds
Series contains files related to associations that David C. Onley was a part of as Lieutenant General, as well as events he attended, and material sent to the office from others gaining his interest. Files include promotional material from companies, annual reports, papers and articles, magazines, speaking notes, correspondence, invitations, and business cards. Series has been kept in original order, arranged by company or association in alphabetical order. Some material is in French.
Subseries consists of programs from performances presented by University of Toronto Opera.
Part of 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.
Collection contains personal and professional papers relating to Howard Engel. These papers contain extensive material on the novels,
books, screenplays, playscripts and radio episodes of Engel. This notably includes drafts for all fourteen novels in the Benny Cooperman series, many including prolific drafts with holograph and editorial revisions. Also included in the collection are extensive drafts for Engel’s final Cooperman novel, Over the River, which was slated to be published in both 2016 and 2018 but was eventually cancelled by the publisher, along with the complete drafts for two unpublished Benny Cooperman novels, and partial drafts and outlines for three additional novels. In addition to his fictional writing, the archives include poetry, articles, reviews, and drafts and proofs for his works of non-fiction. In particular, there are extensive drafts for the memoir of his 2001 stroke, The Man Who Forgot How to Read, the book was originally intended as an autobiography and several earlier drafts exist which detail Engel’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood. During the process of recovering from his stroke, Engel became acquainted with Oliver Sacks, who would later pen an article on Engel in The New Yorker and would go-on to write the afterword of Engel’s memoir. Their extensive correspondence, along with several drafts of Sacks is also present. In addition to material related to Engel’s professional career as a writer, including photographs and press clippings, as well as speeches given over the course of several decades. Engel’s career as a journalist, writer and producer at the CBC is well-documented through scripts and research written or produced by Engel, which is further augmented by audio tapes and reels. The personal life of Engel is well-documented through a nearly complete set of diaries dating between 1991 and 2019, with additional diaries dating from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s, as well as photographs, mementos and through correspondence of a personal and professional nature. The collection contains manuscripts written by other writers, often sent to Engel for feedback or as gifts, this includes drafts or proofs from Kildare Dobbs, Mavis Gallant, Eric Wright and Jack Batten.
Engel, Howard
Part of 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.
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.
Part of 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.
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-Correspondence
-Other Files
-Audiovisual Materials
Part of 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
Part of Karen Mulhallen Papers
Includes material relating to the publication of Descant magazine.
Part of 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.
Part of 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.
Part of 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.
Part of 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.
Part of David Young Papers
A collection of David Young's correspondence, literary manuscripts, business papers, and ephemera. Correspondence includes both business and personal matters from the late 1960s to 1995. The literary papers include multiple drafts and the galleys for his novels Incognito and Agent Provocateur, the notes and drafts for some of his most successful dramatic works, among them Fire, and Glenn, and many TV scripts. Also included are several of his adaptations of works by other authors for radio, such as Carol Shield's Swann, and Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient. Drafts of works by other authors edited by Young and his own manuscripts edited by others, including Michael Ondaatje, are also included. The business papers relate to The Writer's Union of Canada, The Writers' Trust, The For/Words Foundation, Coach House Press and The Baffin Island Project. The ephemera documents the Toronto arts scene.
Part of 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.
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Part of 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.
Part of Charles Ritchie Papers
This third accession of Judith Robertson’s papers is made up of two major components: material relating to the life and work of Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie, and material relating to Robertson’s family, and to her own work. The Charles Ritchie material includes some of his original correspondence with his niece, Elizabeth Ritchie, along with extensive diary entries (1920-1973), made while he was working abroad with the Canadian Department of External Affairs. This collection also contains a number of original photographs from the same period, featuring numerous noteworthy Canadians, along with material relating to Ritchie’s literary estate. Also included are a number of books and periodicals owned by Ritchie, as well as a number of Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen’s published works, inscribed to Ritchie by Bowen.
The material relating to Judith Robertson revolves mainly around her work as the executor of Charles Ritchie’s literary estate, as well as around her role as co-editor of the work Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008). In addition, this collection includes correspondence and documents kept by Norman A. Robertson, Judith Robertson’s father, who also worked as a diplomat in the Department of External Affairs with Charles Ritchie.
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Part of 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.
Part of 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.
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Part of 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.
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Part of 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.
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Part of Beverley Slopen Papers
This accession for Beverley Slopen’s papers consists of administrative records, working files,correspondence, manuscripts (bound and unbound) and other material related to the activities of the Beverley Slopen Literary Agency. It includes material from her current, past and prospective clients.
Slopen, Beverley
Biographical information and personal memorabilia
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
Series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia and biographical information pertaining to Michael Colgrass, including Ulla Colgrass' speech for the celebration of Michael Colgrass at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (2019); biographies of Michael Colgrass and lists of his works and recordings; letters saved as "Ego boosters"; Michael Colgrass' first passport; a "Wanted" poster for Michael Colgrass; astrological charts for the Colgrass family; humorous drawings and writings; and a certificate for the "Michael Colgrass" star from the International Star Registry.
Series also includes videos from Colgrass' 85th birthday party (2017), obituaries, sympathy notes from friends and colleagues following his death, and videos from the Michael Colgrass Life Celebration Party held at Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music (November 2019).
Subseries consists of concerts, master classes, guest lectures, and other events by faculty members of the Faculty of Music and other guest artists.
The fonds contains the material collected by Adam Chapnick during his research for his biography of John Wendell Holmes, Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes, published by University of British Columbia Press in 2009. It includes his research in the Holmes fonds at Trinity College and Holmes’ letters to his family (Nancy Skinner Papers now incorporated into Holmes fonds), transcriptions of interviews and correspondence with various individuals, copies of some of Holmes’ writings, photographs, and correspondence relating to the publication of the book. Most of the research for his biography of John Holmes was undertaken between 2005 and early 2007.
Adam Chapnick
Fonds consists of records created by Sheldon P. Zitner over the course of his career as a scholar, writer, and poet. Files include published and unpublished drafts of poetry, correspondence relating to his career as a poet, drafts of academic essays, and various other records relating to his career. Also included is a copy of an interview of Zitner with Michael Enright from 2000.
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Zitner, Sheldon
The fonds contains the scholarly output of Conacher’s career, including research notes, lectures, offprints of his own and others’ work, personal and professional correspondence, and administrative records.
Desmond J. Conacher
Fonds consists of the administrative records and research papers of The Divinity 150 Project. It includes organizational documents, research notes and materials, surveys completed by divinity students, oral history recordings, copies of the database on floppy disks, and drafts of a planned book.
Divinity 150 Project
Fonds contains correspondence, journals, magazines, and newsletters used for re-search; drafts and manuscripts of articles and books by Willard Oxtoby, Julia Ching, and others. Fonds also includes conference materials such as schedules, planning docu-ments, and submitted essays. Published materials including pamphlets, serials and in-formation booklets, most relating to the Middle East, are included. Files include news-paper clippings; course syllabi and lectures notes for courses taught by Oxtoby; as well as personal keepsakes, photographs and cassette tapes.
Willard G. Oxtoby
The collection documents the Little Sisters of Joy and the part that Gila Margolin plays in it.
It is divided into five series:
Little Sisters of Joy
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts and transcripts of archival material and accumulated by Fred T. Flahiff, professor of English at the University of St. Michael's College. Includes research materials and manuscripts related to Flahiff's biography of author Sheila Watson, "Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson", and his role as executor of her estate and custodian of her personal papers.
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Flahiff, F. T. (Frederick Thomas)
Fonds consists of material documenting the career of Prof. Guido Pugliese as Associate Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), and to a limited extent, his involvement in the local Italian Canadian community. Records include textual records such as CVs, correspondence, course material, play scripts and programs, as well as photographs and video recordings mostly related to Italian plays at UTM.
Pugliese, Guido
Workshops and other educational appearances
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
Series consists of notes and scripts used for various workshops led by Michael Colgrass, and select recordings of these workshops.
Letter from Mozart : with artist video by Ray Ferris
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
File consists of a video file with art created by Ray Ferris. Recording by Joanne Kong, harpsichord and piano, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project conducted by Gil Rose from the CD Side by Side (BMOP sound 1064, April 2019).
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.
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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.
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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.
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Vocalis 3: Music to the Distanced Beloved
File consists of a program from a concert that featured master's and doctoral level singers.
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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.
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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.
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File consists of the pre-recorded performance.
Performers: Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano ; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Russell Braun and Carolyn Maule
File consists of a recording of the recital, which was part of the Summer Thursdays at Noon series, hosted by Korin Thomas-Smith, baritone and recent graduate of the Faculty of Music (MMus 2020). The series was streamed online over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Performers: Russell Braun, baritone ; Carolyn Maule, piano
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