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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.

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Includes, variously, drafts and edited drafts of published and unpublished works, correspondence, reviews, notes, and other material related to a number of short stories and the following novels: “The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn”, “A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.

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

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)

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).

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.

Interview with Beverley McKiver conducted by Elizabeth Robinson

Item is a video recorded interview between Elizabeth Robinson (interviewer, representative of the U of T Music Library) and Beverley McKiver (interviewee). Beverley McKiver is a music teacher, composer, accompanist, and performer based in Ottawa, Ontario. Beverley's compositions have been performed at Native Earth Performing Arts, Jumblies Theatre, and Soundstreams. In 2020 she premiered a suite of piano solos representing the provincial and territorial emblems, which she composed as a result of a Digital Originals grant from the Canada Council. Beverley and Elizabeth's conversation covers topics including economic disparity, music pedagogy, and violence towards Indigenous communities. Trigger warning: this interview includes discussion of Residential Schools.

Interview with Bruce A. Russell conducted by Elizabeth Robinson

Item is a video recorded interview between Elizabeth Robinson (interviewer, representative of the U of T Music Library) and Bruce A. Russell (interviewee). Bruce A. Russell, (aka Ibrahim El Mahboob) is a composer and self-taught pianist living and working in Toronto. He studied at York University with James Tenney and Phillip Werren, and has composed music for the Madawaska String Quartet, Modetn Times Stage Company, and McMaster dancers and choreographers Pan Johnson and Tracy Renee Stafford. Bruce is particularly interested in 20th and 21st century music, especially posminimalism, and music of the African diaspora, including notated and non-notated forms. Bruce and Elizabeth's conversation covers topics including tokenization, performative diversity, Black Lives Matter, racial politics, and police violence. Tigger warning: this interview includes discussion of discriminatory terminology used to classify Black people. The interview includes mentions of suicidal depression, mental health, and institutionalization.

Interview with Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi conducted by Claire Latosinsky

Item is a video recorded interview between Claire Latosinsky (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi (interviewee). Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi (in Persian orthography فرزانه حمصی ) is as Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include Iranian popular music, the politics of popular culture, and transnationality. Her book, Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music, published in April 2020, examines the postrevolutionary pop music of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles as a site of transnational identity creation. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University and has held fellowships with the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Humanities Forum and Columbia University’s Middle East Institute as well as its Institute of Social and Economic Policy and Research. In the summer of 2020, Prof. Hemmasi was co-chair of the Faculty of Music’s Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (AREDI) Workgroup. Dr. Hemmasi and Claire's conversation covers topics including performative diversity, tokenization, music pedagogy, and Black Lives Matter.

Interview with Dr. Melissa Morgan conducted by Claire Latosinsky

Item is a video recorded interview between Claire Latosinsky (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Dr. Melissa Morgan (interviewee). Dr. Melissa Morgan is the Assistant Professor of Choral Music in the department of Media, Arts, and Performance at the University of Regina, where she conducts the Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, in addition to teaching courses in vocal diction and choral conducting. Previously, she was the Pfeifer Memorial Chair of Music at Luther College High School, and was founder and artistic director of the former community ensemble, Prairie Chamber Choir. Dr. Morgan holds a doctorate of Music Performance in Choral Conducting from the University of Toronto, and is also an Associate of the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music in piano, voice, and flute. Dr. Morgan and Claire's conversation covers topics including access to information, music pedagogy, and racism.

[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.

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

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).

Interview with Andrew Adridge conducted by Rosemonde Desjardins

Item is a video recorded interview between Rosemonde Desjardins (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Andrew Adridge (interviewee). Andrew Adridge is a Guyanese-Canadian vocal performer, and a graduate from the University of Toronto opera program. He works as the Operations Associate for Opera.ca, and is the Co-Founder of Opera InReach, an initiative aimed at examining the civi impact of opera, creating an authentic Canadian identity for it, and engaging the next generation of performers with equitable and diverse digital programming and mentorship. Andrew and Rosemonde's conversation covers topics including tokenization and diversity, the arts, Black Lives Matter, and systemic discrimination.

Interview with Andrew Balfour conducted by Hillary Chu

Item is a video recorded interview between Hillary Chu (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Andrew Balfour (interviewee). Andrew Balfour is a Cree composer, conductor, singer, and sound designer whose works include choral, instrumental, and orchestral music. As a result of the Sixties Scoop, Andrew was raised in a non-Indigenous family in Alberta. Today he is a highly sought-after composer known for fusing Classical music traditions with Indigenous texts and themes to highlight the unsettling sociopolitical pressures and commentary that have surrounded Indigenous peoples in Canada for many years. Andrew and Hillary's conversation covers topics including education, equitable access to opportunities, violence against Indigienous peoples, and systemic discrimination. Trigger warning: the interview includes discussion of Residential Schools, and mentions of addiction.

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

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)

David Young Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00327 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Accession
  • 1968-1995
  • 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.

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.

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

Judith Robertson 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.

Contains Series:
Charles Ritchie Material:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Diaries
  3. Writing and original documents
  4. Photographs
  5. Charles Ritchie’s literary estate
  6. Miscellaneous material
  7. Books and periodicals

Judith Robertson Material:

  1. Love’s Civil War
  2. Material relating to Norman A. Robertson [Judith Robertson’s father]
  3. Oversized material

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).

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).
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