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Third year undergraduate singers in performance

File consists of a program and recording of an event that took place in Walter Hall.

Performers: Suzy Smith, piano

Program:

  • Einfache Lieder, op. 9. Liebesbriefchen / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Alannah Beauparlant, soprano)
  • Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Paige Kaps, soprano)
  • Torna a Surriento /Ernesto de Curtis (Ian Gillis, baritone)
  • Ariettes oubliées. C'est l'extase / Claude Achille Debussy (Ainsley deBoer, soprano)
  • 4 love songs. St. John's girl / John Beckwith (Josh Gibson, baritone
  • Mattinata / Ottorino Respighi (Alia Ginevra, soprano)
  • Lerchengesang, op. 70 / Johannes Brahms (Brooke Zarubin, soprano)
  • Caneuon y tri aderyn. Mae Hiraeth yn y mor / Dilys Elwyn Edwards (Andrew Woodmass-Calvert, tenor)
  • Fêtes galantes I. Clair de lune / Claude Achille Debussy (Madeleine Luntley, soprano)
  • Seven tableaux from song of songs. How beautiful you are my love / Srul Irving Glcik (Mia Robles, soprano)
  • 6 Gesänge, op. 19a. Neue Liebe / Felix Mendelssohn (Nathalie Winfield-Hicks, soprano)
  • Jasmin Strauch ; Ihre Stimme / Robert Schumann (Tracy Wong, soprano)
  • Ideale / Paulo Tosti (Matthew Black, baritone).

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).

Canadian art song project : paint me a song

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

Performers: Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano ; Christopher Enns, tenor ; Steven Philcox, piano

Program:

  • Dear Theo. The Red Vineyard ; I Found a Woman ; Little One ; The Man I Have to Paint ; When I'm at Work ; Already Broken ; Souvenir / Ben Moore
  • Four Short Songs. Song ; Table ; Why? ; Earth / John Beckwith
  • Miss Carr in Seven Scenes. Oh, These Mountains! ; A Glimpse of God ; Rhythm and Space ; (Letters: Reams of Horrid Letters ; Mr. Hatch Wrote ; Compliments, Hanna Lund) ; A Movement Floating Up ; I'm Just Whizzy! ; Uncovered / Jeffrey Ryan.

University of Toronto concert orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Concert Orchestra Bryan Holt, conductor

Program:

  • Wohltemperierte Klavier, 2. T. Nr. 24. Praeludium / Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Leopold Stokowski
  • Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 4, op. 18, no. 4, C minor. Allegro, ma non tanto / Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Paul Widner and Bryan Holt
  • Ungarische Tänze. Nr. 5 / Johannes Brahms, arr. Adam Carse
  • Variations for String Orchestra / John Beckwith
  • Simple symphony. Boisterous bourrée ; Playful pizzicato ; Sentimental saraband ; Frolicsome finale / Benjamin Britten.

Starting from porcupine

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

Performers: William Aide, lecturer and pianist

Program:

  • B flat Concerto, opening bars / Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • Concerto, 3rd movement and conclusion / Aram Khachaturian
  • Étude in C sharp minor, op. 10, No. 4 / Frédéric Chopin
  • Mit deinen blauen Augen / Richard Strauss (Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano)
  • Ballade des femmes de Paris / Claude Debussy (Rosemarie Landry, soprano)
  • Ich liebe dich / Edvard Grieg (Elisabeth Söderström, soprano)
  • Poem: 'Quatrième Prélude' (from Massenet's Elegy)
  • Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir / Claude Debussy
  • Maria / Leonard Bernstein (Mark DuBois, tenor)
  • O purple finch / John Beckwith (Doug MacNaughton, baritone)
  • Poem: Concertos in F minor, E flat
  • Concerto in E flat, conclusion / Franz Liszt.

A 90th celebration of John Beckwith

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Program:

  • Introductory Remarks (Prof. Robin Elliott, Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music)
  • A Game of Bowls / John Beckwith (Yang Chen, Kevin Mulligan, Jonny Smith, percussion)
  • Follow Me / John Beckwith (Peter Stoll, clarinet and Adam Zukiewicz, piano)
  • Stacey. At the Day of Judgment, God will say ; Okay, God, say what you like ; Once it seemed almost violent, this music ; I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light / John Beckwith (Monica Whicher, soprano and Steven Philcox, piano)
  • J'ai perdu mon amant / arr. John Beckwith (Monica Whicher, soprano and Steven Philcox, piano).

Follow us

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Adam Piotr Zukiewicz, piano.

Program:

  • "Arpeggione" Sonata / Franz Schubert, arr. J. Brymer
  • Follow Me (2013) / John Beckwith
  • Sonata No.1, op.105 / Robert Schumann, arr. Stephan Korody-Kreutzer.

The Macmillan Theatre : fifty operatic years

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Artists of University of Toronto Opera ; Michael Albano, Resident Stage Director ; Sandra Horst, Director of Musical Studies ; Sandra Horst, Andrea Grant and Hyejin Kwon, pianists

Program:

  • Albert Herring. Albert the Good / Benjamin Britten
  • Nozze di Figaro. Riconosci in questo amplesso / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Gianni Schicchi. Firenze è come un albero fiorito ; O mio babbino caro / Giacomo Puccini
  • The Crucible. John, I knew you'd come back / Robert Ward
  • L'Étoile. Quand on veut ranimer sa belle / Emmanuel Chabrier
  • Paul Bunyan. Whether the Sun Shine / Benjamin Britten
  • Taptoo! Exiles are We / John Beckwith
  • Così fan tutte. Alla bella Despinetta / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Don Giovanni. Là ci darem la mano / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Lucia di Lammermoor. Chi mi frena in tal momento / Gaetano Donizetti
  • Candide. Make our Garden Grow / Leonard Bernstein.

An evening of songs in English with Stephanie Blythe : John R. Stratton visitor in music

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Program:

  • Let the florid music praise ; On this island. Seascape / Benjamin Britten (Jennifer Krabbe, soprano ; Michelle Kim, piano)
  • An evening hymn / Henry Purcell ; St. John's girl / John Beckwith (Lutzen Riedstra, baritone ; Asal Iran Mehr, piano)
  • Nocturne / Michael Head ; Nocturne / Samuel Barber (Amanda Cogan, soprano ; Asher Farber, piano)
  • Silent noon / Ralph Vaughan-Williams ; The seal man / Rebecca Clarke (Whitney O'Hearn, mezzo soprano ; Rina Kim, piano)
  • The crucifixion ; The monk and his cat ; The desire for hermitage / Samuel Barber (Keena Eloise, soprano ; Ivan Jovanovic, piano)
  • Evidence of things not seen. A glimpse / Ned Rorem ; I hear an army / Samuel Barber (Dann Mitton, bass ; Narmina Afandiyeva, piano)
  • Lament of Ian the proud / Charle Griffes ; Come to me in my dreams / Frank Bridge (Danika Loren, soprano ; Jennifer Liu, piano)
  • Life loves life ; I've seen you ; Appreciations. Question ; To bring you here / Alan Louis Smith (Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano ; Steven Philcox, piano)
  • Hymn / Dominick Argento ; The Serpent / Lee Hoiby (Ainsley Wray, soprano).

Music for St Cecilia day

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Susan Hoeppner, flute ; Steven Philcox, piano ; Peter Stoll, clarinet.

Program:

  • Aria "Dieu du bonheur" from Le trompeur trompé / Pierre Gaveux
  • Frauenliebe und Leben, Lyrisches Intermezzo / Franz Lachner
  • Deux Poèmes de Ronsard (Rossignol, mon mignon; Ciel, aer, et vens) / Albert Roussel
  • La Capinera / Julius Benedict
  • Daisy's Aria from Shivaree / John Beckwith
  • Five Sea Songs from Newfoundland / Donald F. Cook.

Toronto and the War of 1812

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: John Beckwith ; Singers from the Toronto Operetta Theatre.

Program:

  • A presentation on the documentary ballad opera, Taptoo!, by James Reaney and John Beckwith, to coincide with the bicentenary of the War of 1812. Composer John Beckwith introduces the work with illustrations by singers from the Toronto Operetta Theatre.

Gamut ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: gamUT Ensemble Norbert Palej, director ; Ivan Barbotin, assistant conductor ; Noam Lomish, coposer-in-residence ; Vinko Globokar, distinguished visitor in composition ; David Schotzko, percussion ; Irvin Chow, dancer ; Sung-Ah Choi, dancer ; Michelle Zetts, dancer ; Angela Blumberg, choreography ; Saman Shahi, conductor ; Greg Harrison, drum set.

Program:

  • Corporel / Vinko Globokar
  • Seven romances on verses by Alexander Blok / Dimitri Shostakovich
  • Echoes of thiele / John Beckwith
  • Les citations / Henir Dutilleux
  • La ronde / Globokar
  • Discom.Mimifority.Sincertcy (...perpetual immnersion in being...) / Mitch Renaud
  • The nagila mayster / Noam Lemish

Gamut ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: gamUT ensemble ; Norbert Palej, director ; Constantine Caravassilis, assistant conductor ; Adam Scime, composer-in-residence.

Program:

  • Five lyrics of the Tang Dynasty / Beckwith
  • Trio for oboe, harp and percussion / Bacewcz
  • Lachrymae / Britten
  • Paganini variations / Lutoslawski
  • Symphony no. 4 / Ustvolskaya
  • After the riot. Three short movements for flute, double bass and piano
  • Vajra / Jonathan Harvey.

John Beckwith : Walter Hall

File consists of notes, rehearsal schedules, and draft programs for a concert of "Music for Winds, 1982-2008" by John Beckwith on September 19, 2010.

University of Toronto wind ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Wind Ensemble ; Gillian Mackay, conductor

Program:

  • Three brass rings / Beckwith, John
  • Harvest hymn / Grainger, Percy
  • Theme and variations op. 43a / Schoenberg, Arnold
  • The solitary dancer / Benson, Warren
  • Adagio para orquesta de instrumentos de viento / Rodrigo, Joaquin
  • Baron Cimetiere's mambo / Grantham, Donald

St. Patrick's music

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

Performers: The Aldeburgh connection ; Virginia Hatfield, soprano ; Anita Krause, mezzo ; Michael Colvin, tenor ; Alexander Dobson, baritone ; Stephen Ralls, piano ; Bruce Ubukata, piano ; Mark Fewer, violin ; Simon Fryer, cello ; Janice Lindskoog, Irish harp.

Program:

  • The lake isle of Innisfree / Healey Willan
  • St. Ita's vision / Samuel Barber
  • The star of the county down / arr. Herbert Hughes
  • The last rose of summer / arr. Benjamin Britten
  • The lover's curse / arr. Herbert Hughes
  • Two Venetian songs, op. 25, 17 and 18 / Robert Schumann
  • La belle voyageuse - Légende Irlandaise / Hector Berlioz
  • Widow Machree / Samuel Lover
  • Capriccio / Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Down by the salley gardens / Ivor Gurney
  • I hear an army / Samuel Barber
  • Nuvoletta / Samuel Barber
  • The red-haired man's wife / arr. Hughes
  • The bard of Armagh / arr. Hughes
  • Sing, sing, music was given / arr. John Beckwith
  • Sweet power of song ; let brain-spinning swains ; dermot and Shelagh ; the wandering minstrel ; the pulse of an Irishman / arr. Beethoven
  • The harp that once through Tara's halls ; Erin! Oh Erin! / arr. Beckwith.

Taptoo! : an opera by John Beckwith and James Reaney

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Faculty of Music Opera Division production in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Sandra Horst, conductor ; Michael Patrick Albano, stage direction and design ; Fred Perruzza, lighting design and projections ; Allison Grant, choreographer ; Lisa Magill, costume design.

Taptoo! : a symposium

File consists of a recording of the symposium, which took place at Walter Hall.

Performers: Joh Beckwith, composer ; Michael Albano, stage director ; Sandra Horst, conductor ; University of Toronto Opera Division, Laura Albino ; Helene Couture ; Jon Paul Decosse, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky ; Matthew Leigh ; Peter McGillivray ; Eve Rachel McLeod ; Jason Nedecky ; Steven Sherwood ; Giles Tomkins ; Katherine Whyte

Program:

  • Disscussion and excerpts from Taptoo!

Great young Canadian singers

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

Performers: University of Toronto Voice Studies students, (Laura Albino ; Allison Bent ; Susan Black ; Trevor Bowes ; Melinda Delorme ; Lisa Di Maria ; Amy Dodington ; Stephen Erickson ; Tonya Leah Gordon ; Wayne Gwillim ; Iain Macpherson ; Michael McBride ; Eve Rachel McLeod ; Kristen Mueller ; Liliana Piazza ; Giles Tomkins ; Jordan A. Travis ; Jillian Yemen) ; Mia Bach, piano ; Gergely Szokalay, piano ; George Brough, piano ; Lorna MacDonald, head of Voice Studies.

Program:

  • Elijah. Lift thine eyes / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  • Si mes vers avaient des ailes / Reynaldo Hahn
  • Five lyrics of the T'ang dynasty 1947. On a rainy night / John Beckwith
  • Dido and Aeneas. When I am laid in earth / Henry Purcell
  • Toccata for flute and voice / Harry Freedman
  • Prison / Gabriel Faure
  • Youth and love / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • The Nursery. In the corner ; sailor the cat / Modest Mussorgsky
  • La clemenza di Tito. S'altro che lagrime / Mozart
  • Vol d'oiseau dans la matinee / Jean Papineau-Couture
  • Pirates of Penzance. Hail poetry! / Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Danto d'anime / Giacomo Puccini
  • Songs from the distaff muse. Roundelay "love is like the wild-rose briar" / Jean Coulthard
  • Der nussbaum / Robert Schumann
  • Isreal in Egypt. Thou in thy mercy / G.F. Handel
  • Erlkonig / Granz Schubert
  • Scene from the last duel / Gary Kulesha
  • Candide. Make our garden grow / Bernstein.

Percussion ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert by the Percussion Ensemble, directed by Robin Engelman.

Performers: Jamie Drake ; Lindsay Fitzsimmons ; Devon Fornelli ; Rob Foster ; Michael Gambacurta ; Ian Gibson ; Charlene Jack ; Peter Jones ; Brian Lahaie ; Christa Mercey ; Ainsley McNeaney ; Antti Ohenoja ; Steve Saijkowsky ; Patricia Sautner ; Danny Tones.

Program:

  • Four etudes for six percussionists / Bruce Mather
  • Workout - five pieces for percussion ensemble / John Beckwith
  • Ancient military aires : the closing of the long roll ; Three camps / trad.
  • See the conqu'ring hero comes / Handel
  • The British grenadiers / anon.
  • Chester / Billings
  • U. T. 2001 / Doug Kleinhans
  • The downfall of Paris / M. Ladre
  • Hell on the Wabash / trad.
  • The Mercey Brothers : Uncle Tom / D. Ballard ; D. Chchrane
  • Who wrote the words / T. Carrisse and B. Rawlings
  • Heroes / G. Fjellgaard
  • Down to the river to pray / trad.

Thursday at noon series : illustrated talk : arranging folk music: why? how?

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Michele Bogdanowicz, mezzo-soprano ; Darryl Edwards, tenor ; Sarah Hahn, flute ; Aidan Pendleton, viola, violin ; John Beckwith, piano, commentator.

Program:

  • L'habitant de Saint-Roch / Quebec
  • The jolly raftsmann, O / Ontario
  • Peter Emberley / New Brunswick
  • Hanusja / Saskatchewan
  • Mude kehrt ein Wanderer zuruck / Manitoba
  • She's like the swallow / Newfoundland
  • Le roulier / Quebec
  • A la claire fontaine / Quebec.

Opera Exchange fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 2001-2015, 2001-2009 predominant

Fonds consists of programs, speaking notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating the Opera Exchange, an initiative co-organized by University of Toronto professors Caryl Clark and Linda Hutcheon, in conjunction with the Munk Centre for International studies (2001-2002) and the Canadian Opera Company (COC) (2003-2015).

The Opera Exchange held three symposia per year, with the aim to create a collaborative environment where students, faculty, and members of the public could discuss opera from various perspectives and disciplines, including musicology, literature, drama, history, political science, and gender studies. The program was initially named "The Humanities Initiative" and early symposia focused on works performed by the University of Toronto Opera School, Opera Atelier, and the COC.

Symposia:

  • 2002 Humanities Initiative symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto)
    • Transformations of Salome (January 19, 2002)
    • Iron Road: intersecting dreams and dialogues (March 1, 2002)
    • The many faces of Boris Godunov (April 6, 2002) [in collaboration with the Centre for Russian and East European studies)
  • 2002-2003 Humanities Initiative symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto)
    • Oedipus Rex: plagues and politics (October 5, 2002)
    • Apprenticing with a sorceress: Handel's Alcina (November 15, 2002)
    • Taptoo! (March 8, 2003)
  • 2003-2004 Opera Exchange symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
    • Peter Grimes: the loner vs. the town (October 4, 2003)
    • Falstaff: the maestro takes on the bard (January 31, 2004)
    • Die Walküre: why Wagner? (April 17, 2004)
  • 2004-2005 Opera Exchange symposia (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • The Handmaid's tale: no balm in this Gilead (October 2, 2004)
    • Siegfried: the forging of a hero (January 29, 2005)
    • Tancredi: Sicilians, Saracens, singers (April 2, 2005) [in conjunction with an American Musicological Society chapter meeting at the University of Toronto]
  • 2005-2006 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music and Bader Theatre)
    • Rodelinda and Carmen: girls night out! (October 22, 2005 at Walter Hall)
    • Götterdämmerung: return of the ring (February 4, 2006 at Bader Theatre)
    • Wozzeck : opera for a modern age (April 1, 2006 at Bader Theatre)
  • 2006 Opera Exchange symposia on Wagner's Ring Cycle (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • Cycle I: putting the ring on stage (September 16, 2006)
    • Cycle II: putting the ring in context (September 13, 2006)
    • Cycle III: putting the ring on record (September 30, 2006 at Hilton Hotel)
  • 2007-2008 Opera Exchange symposia (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • Who (what) is the real Don Carlos? on Verdi's Don Carlos (October 27, 2007)
    • To be or not to be: from the house of the (living dead) on Janacek's From the House of the Dead (February 9, 2008)
    • Letting down your hair with Pelléas and Mélisande (May 20, 2008)
  • 2008-2009 Telling Stories through Opera, The Opera Exchange, three symposia in conjunction with the Jackman Humanities Institute
    • Monster opera: Prokofiev's War and Peace (October 18, 2008)
    • Love and liberation: Beethoven's Fidelio (January 31, 2009)
    • "Antique fables and fairy toys": Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (May 9, 2009)
  • 2009-2010 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Stravinsky/Lepage: a magical meeting of minds (October 17, 2009)
    • Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello: staging jealousy (February 6, 2010)
    • Staging Der fliegende Holländer for our times? (May 1, 2010)
  • 2010-2011 "Voice and Spectacle," The Opera Exchange, three symposia presented by the Jackman Humanities Institute, Faculty of Music, and the Canadian Opera Company
    • Death in Venice gets a new life in Toronto (October 16, 2010)
    • Nixon in China: giving voice to our own history (February 13, 2011)
    • Ariadne auf Naxos from A-Z (May 14, 2011)
  • 2011-2012 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • A Greek family reunion: Gluck's Iphegenie en Tauride (October 1, 2011)
    • Long distant loving: Saariaho's L'amour loin/Love from afar (February 4, 2012)
    • Wilde time: Zemlinsky's A Florentine tragedy (April 22, 2012)
  • 2012-2013 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Let's lighten up! : operetta in context, on Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (October 13, 2012)
    • Wagner and adaptation: transformations and excess, on Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (January 31-Febrary 2, 2013)
    • Singing from the scaffold, on Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites (May 11, 2013
  • 2014 Opera Exchange symposium (Munk School of Global Affairs)
    • Coming home: Handel's Hercules (April 4, 2014)
  • 2014-2015 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Staging operatic comedy: Verdi's Falstaff in context (September 27, 2014)
    • Directors take the stage: debating Regietheater (January 17, 2015).

Clark, Caryl Leslie

Percussion ensemble concert

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Robin Engelman, Director ; Dylan W. Benson, Ed Reifel, Tim Francom and Ian Gibson, drums ; Michael Gambacurta and Ainsley McNeany, vibraphones ; Charlene Jack, marimba; Christa Mercey, bells ; Colin Webster, solo marimba ; Ursula Zielinski and Katarina Kin, violins ; Peter Ing, viola; Nathan Brock, cello; Lee McPhee. double bass ; Cohn Webster, pot lids Brian Lahaie, mixing bowls ; Dean Pomeroy, wind glasses ; Mika Yoshida, solo marimba ; Dean Pomeroy, steel drums and crotales ; Charlene Jack, steel drums ; Ian Gibson, chimes and cymbals ; Anislee McNeany and Michael ; ambacurta, xylophones and vibraphones ; Ed Reifel, glockenspiel, bongoes and congas ; Julia Cleveland, glockenspiel and marimba.

Program:

  • Take That / William Albright (1972)
  • Isabeau / French Traditional (transcribed by D W. Benson)
  • Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra. Saudacau ; Lamento ; Danca ; Despedida / Ney Rosauro (1986)
  • A Game of Bowls (world premiere) / John Beckwith (1999)
  • Kala / Akira Nishimura (1989).

Faculty artist series : Canadian songbook for tenor

File consists of a recording of the concert by Darryl Edwards, tenor and Jack Behrens, piano.

Program:

  • Two William Blake Poems. I Love the Jocund Dance ; Piping Down the Valleys Wild / Oskar Morawetz
  • Two Landscapes for Tenor (Kenneth Patchen). The sea is awash with roses ; We must be slow / Srul Irving Glick
  • When the Spirit Dances (Nancy Telfer). Now we are most alive / Nancy Telfer
  • The Last Straw (Frederick Thury). O Ink-Black Night / Ruth Watson Henderson
  • Young Man from Canada. Young Man from Canada (Cariboo) ; Peter Emberley (Miramachi) ; De seretnék hajnal csillag lenni (Hungarian, Saskatchewan) ; Le Roulier (Gaspé) / arr. John Beckwith
  • "The Search for Love and Happiness." Les Papillons (Théophile Gauthier) / Omer Létourneau ; Le Ciel est si Bleu (Paul Verlaine) / André Mathieu ; Dissidence (Gabriel Charpentier). Le crie de joie / Pierre Mercure
  • Christopher Pratt Poems. A meeting in the street ; It is when I see my friends asleep / Jack Behrens
  • Poems for Music (Robert Hillyer). Miss Helen Lang ; It is easy to forget a song ; Twentieth Century / Jack Behrens.

Thursday noon series : twentieth-century music for the oboe

File consists of a program and recording of the concert, performed by Amy Hamilton, flute (3rd work); Keith Atkinson, oboe; Kent McWilliams, piano.

Program:

  • Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49, for Oboe Solo / Benjamin Britten
  • Arctic Dances for Oboe and Piano (1984) / John Beckwith
  • Trio in A major for Flute, Oboe and Piano (1967) / Madeleine Dring.

John Beckwith : music for voice, 1949-1999

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Kathryn Domoney, Teri Dunn, sopranos ; Laura Pudwell, mezzo-soprano ; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor ; Doug MacNaughton, baritone ; Margaret Gay, cello ; Colin Savage, clarinet ; Beverley Johnston, percussion ; William Aide, John Beckwith, piano ; Jeffrey McFadden, guitar.

Program:

  • The Great Lakes suite, 1949 (text : James Reaney)
  • A Chaucer suite, 1962. Now welcome, somer ; Compleynt to his purs ; Gentilesse (text : Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • The Shivaree, 1978 (libretto: James Reaney). Aria (Miss Beech) ; Duo (Daisy, Jonathan)
  • Six Songs to Poems by e.e. cummings, 1982. o purple finch ; Jimmie's got a goil
  • Old Meg Merrillees, 1988 (text, John Keats)
  • Crazy to Kill (text, James Reaney). Freedom aria (Agatha) ; Dialogue (Agatha, Detective Fry)
  • A Birthday Greeting for HARRy FREEDmAn, 1992 (found text)
  • Taptoo, 1995 (text: James Reaney). Act 2, Scene 4 duo (Atahentsic, Mrs. Simcoe)
  • All At Once, 1995 (text, bpNichol)
  • Stacey, 1997 (text, Margaret Laurence)
  • Young Man from Canada, 1998 (arranged, traditional sources).

Canadian song recital

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Collection of six unrelated songs / Walter Buczynski (Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Six songs to poems by e.e. cummings / John Beckwith (Mark Pedrotti, baritone ; Brahm Goldhamer, piano)
  • Part of seven / Walter Buczynski (Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Bright Phoebe / Keith Bissell ; Coatman's saloon / Robert Fleming ; L'Amant malhereux ; The St. John's Girl (Mark Pedrotti, baritone ; Brahm Goldhamer, piano)
  • The Valentine songs / Walter Buczynski (Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Walter Buczynski, piano).

Martin Katz masterclass

File consists of a program and recording of a masterclass in Walter Hall by Martin Katz, piano.

Program:

  • As fair as day / Rachmaninoff (James Westman, baritone ; Emily Hamper, piano)
  • Il est doux, il est bon / Massenet (Monica Huisman, soprano ; Marc Toth, piano)
  • A Clymene / Faure (David Pomeroy, tenor ; Emily Hamper, piano)
  • Au pays ou se fait la guerre / Duparc (Michelle Neville, soprano ; Marina Taneva, piano)
  • Una voce poco fa / Rossini (Ayelet Porzecanski, mezzo soprano ; Galina Zisk, piano)
  • Standchen / Strauss (Mei Lee, soprano ; Theresa Lin, piano)
  • Bess of Bedlam / Purcell (Kathleen Flynn, mezzo soprano ; Gregory Oh, piano)
  • The glory is fallen out of the sky / Beckwith (Karen Wierzba, soprano ; Jenny Jung, piano)
  • Madamina / Mozart (Taras Kulish, bass baritone ; Gregory Oh, piano)
  • Ach, ich fuhl's / Mozart (Jooryun Kim, soprano ; Galina Zisk, piano).

Toronto : music education

File consists of Carl Morey's draft article "Musical education in nineteenth-century Toronto," which was published in Taking a stand: Essays in honour of John Beckwith (University of Toronto Press, 1995).

A celebration in honour of the Faculty of Music's 75th anniversary

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • The weaver / Oskar Morawetz (Mark DuBois, tenor ; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet ; Patricia Parr, piano)
  • Impromputs / John Weinzweig (Patricia Parr, piano)
  • Synthetic trios / John Beckwith (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Ameene Shishakly, clarinet ; Stephen Clarke, piano)
  • Piano quartet no. 2 / Talivaldis Kenins (Paul Meyer, violin ; Steven Dann, viola ; David Hetherington, cello ; William Aide, piano).

Concert Band and Chamber Winds : Canadian wind music

File consists of a program and a recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the Concert Band and Chamber Winds, conducted by Stephen Chenette and Melvin Berman.

Program:

  • Fanfare of pride and joy / Tibor Polgar
  • Caracole / Lynne Smyth (premiere)
  • Epitaphium "The struggle with faith" / J. Scott Irvine
  • Out of the blues / John Weinzweig
  • Elastic band studies / John Beckwith
  • Romantic variations / Morley Calvert
  • Prologue and dramatic music for winds and percussion / Donald Coakley.

Electroacoustic music

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Synchronisms no. 3 / Mario Davidovsky (Vladimir Orloff, cello)
  • Fantasie / Paul Pedersen
  • The medium / Chris Meloche
  • Shoko no sho / Dennis Patrick (Joseph Macerollo, accordion)
  • Four microclips / Gustav Ciamaga
  • Upper Canadian hymn preludes / John Beckwith (John Tuttle, organ)
  • Rhythmic voodoo / Lesley Barber (Beverley Johnston, percussion).

A concert of works by John Beckwith

File consists of a program and recording from a concert in Walter Hall. The concert of his music marked his retirement from the University of Toronto as the Jean A. Chalmers Professor of Canadian Music and Director of the Institute for Canadian Music.

Program:

  • Old Meg Merillies (Patricia Kern, mezzo soprano ; William Aide, piano)
  • Eight miniatures from the Ash Collection. Excerpts (Lawrence Beckwith, violin ; John Beckwith, piano)
  • Sharon fragments (University of Toronto Concert Choir ; James Pinhorn, conductor)
  • Arctic dances (Lawrence Cherney, oboe ; William Aide, piano)
  • Duo on H.E.S.A.E.S. (Curtis Dietz, Melody Stepto, trumpets)

The art of contemporary choral music

File consists of a program and recording from a two-day workshop presented in cooperation with Boddington Music Ltd. and the Ontario Choral Federation. Participants included John Poole, 1990 Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitor in Music; Doreen Rao; University of Toronto Concert Choir; Agincourt Collegiate Senior Choir, directed by Lee Willingham; Earl Haig Concert Choir, directed by Mary Legge; and composers-in-residence John Beckwith and John Burge.

University of Toronto Contemporary Music Ensemble

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Robin Engelman.

Program:

  • Double canon, Raoul Dufy in memoriam / Igor Stravinsky
  • Epitahium fur das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Furstenberg / Stravinsky
  • Elegy for J.F.K. / Stravinsky
  • Introitus, T.S. Eliot in memorium / Stravinsky
  • Concerto, op. 24 / Anton von Webern
  • Night blooming cereus, Scene 2 / John Beckwith
  • Hendectet / George Mulamoottil
  • Etudes / John Beckwith
  • El amor brujo / Manuel de Falla.
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