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1941-03-18/Canada/Toronto

Concert features the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan with guest artist Zara Nelsova, cello.

1941-11-28/Canada/Toronto

Kathleen Parlow, violin, Zara Nelsova, cello; Ernest MacMillan, piano.
Parlow plays: Schubert, Haydn-Tovey, Tchaikovsky.

1942-03-19/Canada/Owen Sound

Hosted by Kinsmen Club of Owen Sound. MacMillan plays solo as well as with Parlow.
Parlow plays: Beethoven, Lalo, Tartini-Kreisler, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Grieg.

1942-11-19/Canada/Galt

Kathleen Parlow, violin, Zara Nelsova, cello; Ernest MacMillan, piano.
Parlow plays: Schubert, Haydn-Tovey, Tchaikovsky.

1943-11-04/Canada/Kingston

Kathleen Parlow, violin, Zara Nelsova, cello; Ernest MacMillan, piano.
Parlow plays: Schubert, Haydn-Tovey, Tchaikovsky.

1947-04-17/Canada/Toronto

Kathleen Parlow, violin; Samuel Hersenhoren, violin; Stanley Solomon, viola; Isaac Mamott, cello. Assisted by pianist Ernest MacMillan. For Sixth Biennial Conference of Women's Committees for Symphony Orchestras.
Parlow plays: Franck.

1947-04-21/Canada/Toronto

Kathleen Parlow, violin; Samuel Hersenhoren, violin; Stanley Solomon, viola; Isaac Mamott, cello. Assisted by pianist Ernest MacMillan. Composition by John Weinzweig commissioned.
Parlow plays: Brahms, Weinzweig, Franck

The passion of our Lord according to Saint Matthew : set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach : programs

File contains programs for performances of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto. The concerts were prepared under the joint direction of Ernest MacMillan (conductor) and Richard Tatersall. The choirs were made up of members from the choirs of the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Old St. Andrew's Church, Upper Canada College, Holy Trinity Church, Bloor Street United Church, the Conservatory Choir, and the Mendelssohn Choir. The Music Committee of Hart House and Hart House Theatre were also involved in the productions.

Norman Wilks

File consists of two copies of a speech given by Sir Ernest MacMillan at the unveiling of a portrait of Norman Wilks (1885-1944), who taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1928-1944). The file also contains a clipping of the newspaper article "'Met' head to accept Conservatory portrait" regarding the acceptance of the portrait by Edward Johnson on behalf of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

Faculty reference files

Subseries consists of reference files for various staff and faculty at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. These files were maintained by the promotions office (primarily by Edith Binnie, promotions officer, 1963-1984) and used in the creation of promotional material, including the Faculty's newsletter. Files include memorandums, correspondence, contracts for performances outside of the Faculty, news clippings about activities at the Faculty, and reports on activities and special projects.

Subseries includes files on the following individuals and ensembles: William Aide, Michael Albano, Amici, Raffi Armenian, John Arpin, Gianetta Baril, Lee Bartel, John Beckwith, Boris Berlin, Melvin Berman, Edith Ann Binnie, Douglas Bodle, Russell Braun, Dennis Brott, Walter Buczynski, James Campbell, Ronald Chandler, Stephen Chenette, Gustav Ciamaga, Martha Collins, Steve Dann, Victor Danchenko, Andrew Dawes, Alex Dean, Bernard Diamant, Daniel Domb, Mark DuBois, John Edwards, David Elliott, Barry Elmes, Robin Engelman, Robert Falck, Victor Feldbrill, Lorand Fenyves, Fenyves-Orloff-Parr Trio, Harry Freedman, Ann Cooper Gay, Rivka Golani, Nicholas Goldschmidt, John Greer, Gryphon Trio, Doreen Hall, Christos Hatzis, John Hawkins, Nancy Hermiston, David Hetherington, Pierre Hetu, Derek Holman, Andrew Hughes, Barney Ingraham, Elmer Iseler Singers, Jacques Israelievitch, Wayne Jeffery, Irene Jessner, Gaynor Jones, Eli Kassner, Talivaldis Kenins, Patricia Kern, James Kippen, Lothar Klein, Zoltan Kodaly, Norbert Kraft, Anton Kuerti, Gary Kulesha, Jeanne Lamon, Rosemarie Landry, Lorne Lofsky, Judy Loman, Che Anne Loewen, Boris Lysenko, Lorna MacDonald, Ernest MacMillan, Rika Maniates, Stacey McCartney, Rob McConnell, Lois McDonall, Timothy McGee, Deborah Milsom, Thomas Monahan, Oskar Morawetz, Carl Morey, Mike Murley, Daniel Neff, Nexus, Phil Nimmons, Harvey Olnick, Orford String Quartet, Vladimir Orloff, Patricia Parr, Dennis Patrick, Roy Patterson, Paul Pedersen, Joel Quarrington, Louis Quilico, Stephen Ralls, Doreen Rao, Erika Raum, Paul Read, Gary Relyea, Godfrey Ridout, Eugene Rittich, Shauna Rolston, George Sawa, Ezra Schabas, Pat Shand, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Nora Shulman, Suzanne Shulman, Pierre Souvairan, Scott St. John, Richard Summers, David Tanner, Ivars Taurins, Colin Tilney, Toronto Consort, Joaquin Valdepenas, Cameron Walter, John Weinzweig, William Wright, David Zafer.

The modern composer and his world

File contains correspondence, book reviews, and three photographs by Peter Smith of the International Conference of Composers (Stratford, 1960). Included in the photographs are Muray Adaskin, John Beckwith, Luciano Berio, John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Vagn Holmboe.

Faculty 75th anniversary talk

File consists of correspondence relating to John Beckwith book Music at Toronto: A Personal Account (1995) and a talk that Beckwith gave at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in celebration of its 75th anniversary (1993). Correspondents include Helmut Kallmann, Rivi Frankle, Chan Ka Nin, Marnie Hare, David Beach, John Hamilton, Stephen Brathwaite, Bruce Minorgan, Paul Pedersen, Paul Green, Fred Clarke, Ezra Schabas, and Doreen Rao. File also includes a photograph of Sir Ernest MacMillan, Godfrey Ridout, Leo Smith, John Weinzweig, and Healey Willan (photo by Herb Nott, ca. 1942), which was used in Beckwith's book.

Canadian Music Journal : complete correspondence

File consists of correspondence with and regarding the The Canadian Music Journal, including that with Marjorie Agnew, Elaine S. Anderson, George Avakian, G.W. Boss, Gabriel Charpentier, Gustav Ciamaga, Austin Clarkson, Hugh Davidson, Marvin Duchow, Chester Duncan, T.C. Fairley, Jack Frizzelle, Serge Garant, Graham George, Walter Herbert, Edgar N. Jones, A.H. Joseph, Walter Kemp, Marthe Lamy, Lee Lenard, Aaron Lipsin, Ernest MacMillan, G. Welton Marquis, Brock McElheran, Hugh McLean, Jaroslav Mracek, Jean Papineau-Couture, Kathleen Parlow, Geoffrey Payzant, Ken Peacock, Barbara Pentland, V.P. Playford, Gilles Potvin, R.G. Simpson, Robert Turner, Otto H. Ulrich, Jr., Arnold Walter, and Ken Winters. John Beckwith was the associate editor for record reviews in the Canadian Music Journal.

Sir Ernest MacMillan collection

  • OTUFM 15
  • Collection
  • 1890-1996, predominant 1991-1994

Collection includes correspondence, notes, transcripts, and other working papers for Ezra Schabas's book Sir Ernest MacMillan: the importance of being Canadian, published by the University of Toronto Press in 1994.

Schabas, Ezra

University of Toronto symphony orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Uri Mayer, conductor ; with Myriam Blardone, harp

Program:

  • Fanfare for a centennial ; England. Overture/ Sir Ernest MacMillan
  • Concierto de Aranjuez. Allegro con spirito ; Adagio ; Allegro gentile / Joaquín Rodrigo (Myriam Blardone, harp)
  • Symphonie fantastique. Rêveries, passions ; Bal ; Scène aux champs ; Marche au supplice ; Songe d'une nuit de sabbat / Hector Berlioz.

A celebration of Faculty of Music composers

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Women's Chamber Choir ; Dr. Lori-Anne Dolloff, conductor ; Eunseong Cho, collaborative pianist ; MacMillan Singers ; David Fallis, conductor ; Trevor Dearham, assistant conductor ; Lara Dodds-Eden, collaborative pianist

Program:

  • If My Voice Departs / Shireen Abu-Khader (Ineza Mugisha, soloist)
  • How the Blossoms are Falling / Ramona Luengen
  • Birdsong / Paul Read (Sierra Ward-Bond and Alyssa Meyerwitz, soloists)
  • One Sister Have I in Our House / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • Psalm Trilogy / Srul Irving Glick (Claire Latosinsky, Olivia Spahn-Vieira, Roanna Kitchen, Heeyun Lee, Abigail Kirton, Abigail Sinclair and Shelley Mayer, soloists ; with Members of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra)
  • Ikan Kekek / Tracy Wong (Roanna Kitchen, soloist ; Breanne Dharmai and Emily Harris, hand drums)
  • Blanche comme la neige / arr. Ernest MacMillan (Dante Santone, Lutzen Riedstra, Derrell Woods, Christian Umipig, soloists)
  • I Sing / Matthew Emery (Trevor Dearham, conductor ; Aleh Remezau, oboe)
  • Psalm 1, from "Harp of David" / John Beckwith (Gabrielle Turgeon, Olivia Guselle, Emily Rocha, Jeremy Tingle, Kai Leung, soloists)
  • Come lovely and soothing death / James Rolfe
  • Encroachment / Tristan Zaba (Rachel Allen, Kristian Lo, soloists)
  • Night music / Derek Holman (Autumn Zhao, Mara Bowman, soloists ; with Members of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra).

The University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Band with Robert A. Rosevear, conductor and Ward K. Cole, assistant conductor. The concert took place in the MacMillan Theatre of the Edward Johnson Building.

Program:

  • God Save the Queen ; O Canada / harmonization by Sir Ernest MacMillan, arr. Robert A. Rosevear
  • Beatrice and Benedict overture / Hector Berlioz, trans. Franz Henning
  • Fugue a la gigue / Johann Sebastian Bach, trans. Gustav Holst
  • Suite in A minor for flute / Georg Phillipp Telemann, adaptation by Stanley Passfield (Jadwiga Michalska, flute)
  • Mlada. Procession of nobles / Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Celebration overture / Paul Creston
  • Stratford suite / Howard Cable
  • Mannin Veen - Dear Isle of Man / Haydn Wood.

The University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Band with Robert A. Rosevear, conductor and Ward K. Cole, assistant conductor. Performance was part of the All-Ontario Workshop of the Ontario Music Educators' Association (OMEA) at Mimico High School.

Program:

  • God Save the Queen / harmonization by Sir Ernest MacMillan, trans. Robert A. Rosevear
  • Sleepers wake; chorale prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Al. Chiaffarelli
  • Fantasia for band / Vittorio Giannini
  • Round dance / John Weinzweig, adapted by Howard Cable
  • Letters to a friend / Alexandre Gretchaninoff, arr. Walter Beeler
  • Symphony for band / Robert E. Jager
  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallee, arr. Godfrey Ridout, trans. Robert A. Rosevear.

Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan : A memorial tribute

File consists of a program from the memorial tribute to Sir Ernest MacMillan at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto.

Program:

  • Hymn. Praise to the Lord
  • Opening words and tribute by Albert Trueman
  • Cortege academique / MacMillan (Charles Peaker)
  • I sing of a maiden / MacMillan (Lois Marshall and string trio)
  • Tribute by Robertson Davies
  • Two sketches on French Canadian airs / MacMillan (string ensemble from the Toronto Symphony)
  • Tribute by Charles Peaker
  • St. Matthew Passion. Excerpts / Bach (Lois Marshall and ensemble)
  • Tribute by John Beckwith
  • Blanche comme la neige / MascMillan (Toronto Mendelssohn Choir ; Elmer Iseler, conductor)
  • Closing words by Albert Trueman
  • Hymn. The Strife is o'er / arr. MacMillan
  • Benediction by the Very Rev. Arthur Moore
  • Chorale prelude on Vulpuis / Willan (Charles Peaker).

Thursday scholarship concert : An evening of music from Canada's first half century

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in Walter Hall.

Performers: Godfrey Ridout, Master of Ceremonies ; John Beckwith, conductor

Program:

  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallée (Rosemarie Landry, soprano)
  • Sounds of the 19th century including compositions by: Stephen Codman, Wm. Horatio Clarke, Byron Tapley, E.H. Ridout, J.C. Brauneis and Herbert L. Clarke (Stephen Chenette, trumpet ; Susan Chennette, piano ; John Keane, tenor ; Elaine Keillor, piano ; Penny Speedie, soprano)
  • Whose brother am I? / arr. Leo Smith (John Keane, tenor ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Nadu-Na du du / arr. Ernest MacMillan (Penny Speedie, soprano ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Six bergerettes du bas Canada / Ernest MacMillan (Rosemarie Landry, soprano ; Penny Speedie, soprano ; John Keane, tenor ; Elizabeth Volpe, harp ; Barbara Bolte, oboe ; Stephen Dann, viola ; Geneviève La Rue, cello ; John Beckwith, conductor)
  • Prelude : op. 59, no. 1 / W. O. Forsyth (Elaine Keillor, piano) ; First mazurka : op. 13, no. 1 / Clarence Lucas (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Valse impromptu : op. 44 / Clarence Lucas (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Tintamarre / J. Humphrey Anger (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano / Alexis Constant (Barbara McDougall, violin ; Jose Shapero, cello ; Walter Buczynski, piano)

Orford String Quartet

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in Walter Hall.

Performers: Andrew Dawes, violin ; Terence Helmer, viola ; Kenneth Perkins, violin ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello

Program:

  • Five improvisations for string quartet / Oskar Morawetz
  • String quartet in D minor : D. 810 / Franz Schubert [first movement was not recorded]
  • Encore : French Canadian folk song arranged by Sir Ernest MacMillan

The MacMillan Singers : Celebrate the legacy

File consists of a program from a concert by the MacMillan Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, with guests Elmer Iseler, Derek Holman, and James Maben, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • God save the Queen / arr. Sir Ernest MacMillan
  • Ave Maria / Imant Raminsh
  • Three motets, op. 38 / Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Motet V, Komm, Jesu komm / Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Missa brevis / Leonard Bernstein
  • If music be the food of love / Jean Belmont
  • The present time. Selections / Derek Holman
  • Magic songs / R. Murray Schafer
  • St. John's song / Veljo Tormis
  • God bless the master / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • De mornin' come / arr. Wendell Whalum
  • Amazing grace
  • Song of deliverance / Sir Ernest MacMillan.

MacMillan remembered : Carl Morey

File consists of a program and recording from a concert of "Reminiscences and Recollections" of Sir Ernest MacMillan in Walter Hall. Recollections by Victor Feldbrill, William Littler, Lois Marshall, Ezra Schabas, and Carl Morey.

St. Lawrence String Quartet

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the St. Lawrence String Quartet (Geoff Nuttall, Barry Shiffman, violins; Lesley Robertson, viola; Marina Hoofer, cello) with Shauna Rolston, cello.

Program:

  • String quartet in C major, KV. 157 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Two sketches for string quartet / Ernest MacMillan
  • Pieces en concert / Francois Couperin, arr. Paul Bazelaire
  • Cello quintet in C major, op. 168, D. 956 / Franz Schubert.
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