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Die vier Grobiane = I Quattro rusteghi / Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

File consists of an annotated score with a handwritten English libretto and photographs of the actors on stage with the set from a February-March 1954 Canadian Opera Company (COC) production that Herman Geiger-Torel directed with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Hans Berends, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Evelyn Gould, Joanne Ivey, Andrew MacMillan, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Patricia Rideout, Phyllis Mailing, Jon Vickers, Glenn Gardiner, Mary Morrison, James Milligan, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Alexander Gray, William Copeland, Robert Goulet, Dolores Huck.

Salome / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a 1965 performance and three photographs of the set and one of the opera singers. Annotations include a handwritten cast list from another, likely earlier, performance. The 1965 production for the Canadian Opera Company (COC) was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers (1965): Garnet Brooks, Darlene Hirst, Donald Young, Maurice Brown, David Geary, Margaret Tynes, Roxolana Roslak, Joanna Myhal, Royce Reaves, Phil Stark, Arlene Meadows, Thomas Park, Danny Tait, Ian Garratt, Wallace Williamson, Tito Dean, Oskar Raulfs, Ermanno Mauro, Abbot Anderson.

Elektra / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with production notes from the September-October 1969 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC), including stage plans and a photograph of the set. The COC production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Heinrich Bender, conductor; Lawrence Schäfer, set design; and Marie Day, costume design.

Performers: Joan Maxwell, Kathryn Newman, Leah Werman, Dodi Protero, Elsie Sawchuk, Stephanie Gerson, Astrid Varnay, Eileen Schauler, Mignon Dunn, Sonia Rohozynsky, Lorna Hearst, Paul Trépanier, Steven Henrikson, Richard Mundt, Heran Rombouts, Phil Stark.

Photographs of Derek Holman, friends, and colleagues

File includes photographs of Derek Holman conducting various choirs, including the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Croydon Parish Church Choir, the Cathedral Organists' Association at Westminster Abbey, St. Simon's Church Choir and with various friends and colleagues, including Robertson Davies, and photographs of the Truro School Prefectorial Staff (including Holman, 1948), and Holman from the University of Trinity College convocation (2000) when he received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Letters.

Church of St. Simon the Apostle

File contains programs, a photograph of the boys' choir, correspondence, lists of choir members, posters, reviews, and lists of church service music for St. Simon's. File also includes an autograph book from the end of his tenure as the organist-choirmaster at the church.

University of Trinity College

File contains correspondence and a program from the University of Trinity College convocation (2000), when Derek Holman received an honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters.

Order of Canada

File includes congratulatory correspondence, photographs and programs from the event, newspaper clippings, and the certificate.

Signed photographs of musicians

File consists of a collection of signed portraits, mainly dated 1909-1920: Wilhelm Bachaus, Clara Butt, Teresa Carreño, Mischa Elman, Carl Flesch, Arthur Friedheim, Josef Hofmann, Louise Homer, Percy B. Kahn, Martin Krause, Fritz Kreisler, Luigi von Kunits, Mischa Levitzki, Kathleen Parlow, Bernice de Pasquali, Maud Powell, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Walter Henry Rothwell, R. Kennerley Rumford, Leo Slezak, Helen Stanley, Frederick A. Stock, Yvonne de Tréville, August Wilhelmj, Eugène Ysaÿe.

Publicity photographs of other artists

File contains photographs of the following: Frances Alda; Louis Bachner; Sophie Braslau; Wishart Campbell (signed); Galli-Curci; Emmy Heim (signed); Ernest MacMillan (4: 1 signed; 1 with choir and orchestra, rehearsing St. Matthew Passion, Convocation Hall, 1931); Giovanni Martinelli; James W. McEnery (signed) ; Earle Moss (signed) ; Philarmonic Choir of Salt Lake City, Utah, with H. Frederick Davis, Dorothy Maynor and George Schick ; Lily Pons (2); Schumann-Heink ; Donna Small (signed) ; Reginald Stewart and the Bach Choir in Yorkminster Church, Toronto; Jenny Taggart (signed); Toronto Opera Guild, Lohengrin, Massey Hall 1939; Unidentified Toronto church choir.

Publicity materials

File contains photographs, flyers, and two half-tone metal plates ("cuts"). The photographs include promotional photographs, pictures with the Oxford School, photographs of Eileen Law in operatic costumes, and photographs of performances. Most of the photographs are not dated.

Pocket diaries

File contains seven manuscript pocket diaries from the years 1938-1942, 1944, 1946. One of the diaries includes a pocket-size photograph of an unidentified child.

Photographs

File contains various photographs. Includes photographs of: Lambert, or Lambert and students; Edward Johnson as Don José, autographed; Alfredo Martini, 1928 postcard.

Snapshots

File contains an album of snapshots that includes photographs of England and Italy (1925-1929); New York (1929); and, Banff (1931).

New Music Concerts 1988 recording project

File consists of correspondence, grant applications, contracts, promotional photographs of Iannis Xenakis, and other notes relating to New Music Concerts first self-titled album "New Music 90".

Roger Reynolds and his protégés : Isabel Bader Theatre

File consists of corrrespondence, notes, rehearsal schedules, technical requirements, and agreements relating to a concert on March 29, 2009 featuring Antonio Borges-Cunha's "Noturno para Chopin: in memoriam" with David Swan, piano and Antonio Borges-Cunha, accordion. File includes a program from Robert Aitken's premiere performance of Roger Reynolds' "Transfigured Wind IV" at Alice Tully Hall (February 10, 1985) and photographs of Robert Aitken and Roger Reynolds from September 24, 1983 and at the 1985 concert.

Tim Brady : Music Gallery

File consists of correspondence, agreements, and a promotional photograph of Michael Donovan, baritone, the featured vocalist in the New Music Concerts' performance of Tim Brady's chamber opera Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune on January 22 and 23, 2005.

Concert Stockhausen : Betty Oliphant Theatre

File consists of correspondence, notes, and promotional photographs of featured performers Lise Daoust, flute and Suzanne Lantagne, dancer for a concert featuring the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen on December 15, 1991.

Mauricio Kagel : Glenn Gould Studio

File consists of correspondence, rehearsal schedules, promotional photographs, and stage plots for a concert of music by the composer Mauricio Kagel on February 1, 2004. During his multi-day stay in Toronto, Kagel was also involved with a concert of his music by Esprit Orchestra on January 31, 2004.

Stephen Wolpe : Walter Hall

File contains correspondence and other records from the NMC concert on February 12, 1983. The file includes a photograph of Paul Massel.

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