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File consists of a collection of recordings conducted by Boyd Neel. Photocopied card index to recordings included in audio reel box:

• [unidentified works by] John Stanley and Richard Mudge (Hart House Orchestra, 1956)
• Opera with Boyd Neel [excerpt from radio program] (1956)
• CBC Symphony Orchestra with Elizabeth Benson-Guy, conducted by Neel (1961)
• CBC Symphony Strings, conducted by Neel (1961)
• Neel's tribute to Sir Thomas Beecham (1961)
• CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neel with Lazlo Varga, cello (1963)
• Hart House Orchestra concert, conducted by Neel with Pierre Souvairan (1963)
• CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1964)
• Music from official opening of the Edward Johnson Building, CBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neel and Sir Ernest MacMillan (1964)
• Opera time series with Ruby Mercer and Neel (1964)
• Concerts from Two Worlds series with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1964)
• Pleasure froom music series, James Kent talks with Neel about Sir Edward Elgar (1964)
• Opera time series on Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring with Neel and Ruby Mercer (1965)
• Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1966)
• CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1966)
• CBC talent festival, with Neel as judge (1966)
• Now I ask you radio program with Neel (1966)
• Hart House Orchestra BBC concert at Aldeburgh Festival (1966)
• Centennial concert series featuring Joseph Macerollo and the Hart House Orchestra (1967)
• CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1967)
• Hermit's choice series with Neel (1967)
• Profile of Vaughan Williams by Neel (1972)
• Canadian concert hall series about Benjamin Britten, including performance of his Les Illuminations with Sylvia Saurette, soprano, and the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1973)
• Music and opinion series with neel (1973)
• Canadian concert hall series with CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, conducted by Neel, performing Boccherini (1973)
• The entertainers series. Music of the lyric theatre with the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, conducted by Neel, with soloists Heather Thomson and Arthur Janzen (1974)
• CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Neel (1975).

Program:

• Concerto grosso / Vivaldi
• Oboe concerto / Marcello (Lynda Wulkan, oboe)
• Two sketches / MacMillan
• Violin and oboe concerto / Bach (Yasha Milkis, violin ; Lynda Wulkan, oboe)
• Divertimento no. 136 / Mozart
• Romanian dances / Bartok

File consists of notes, drafts, and correspondence relating to a chapter on Canada's production of phonograph records, which John Beckwith wrote for Music in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press in co-operation with the Canadian Music Council, 1955), edited by Sir Ernest MacMillan. File also includes a draft follow-up article that appeared in the Canadian Library Association Bulletin (1956) titled "List of Canadian recorded music."

File contains correspondence, book reviews, and three photographs by Peter Smith of the International Conference of Composers (Stratford, 1960). Included in the photographs are Murray Adaskin, John Beckwith, Luciano Berio, John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Vagn Holmboe. The conference proceedings were published in 1961 under the title The Modern Composer and His World.

File is a recording of an interview with John Beckwith and Sir Ernest MacMillan for CBC radio.

File consists of recordings compiled by Keith MacMillan as part of a family tribute. Unless otherwise indicated, all compositions are by Sir Ernest MacMillan.

• Fantasy on Scottish melodies
• Te Deum laudamus
• Three songs of the west coast
• Six Bergerettes du Bas Canada
• Blanche comme la neige
• Two Christmas carols [I sing of a maiden ; The Stork
• Two sketches for string quartet based on French Canadian airs
• Prelude and fugue in E-flat major / Johann Sebastian Bach
• Five songs (Emmy Heim, Ernest MacMillan)
• Sonata in G minor / Edvard Grieg
• Praise to the Lord (Ernest MacMillan, organ with choir and congregation)
• Clavierübung, Book 3 / Johann Sebastian Bach (Ernest MacMillan, organ)
• String quartet in C minor (Amadeus Quartet)
• Cortége acadèmique (Andrew Davis, organ at Roy Thompson Hall)
• Overture in A (Toronto Symphony ; Andrew Davis, conductor)
• Goodnight, Irene / Lead Belly (Andrew Sisters)
• Gute Nacht Irene
• Happy Birthday Dear Ernest / John Beckwith

File consists of John Beckwith's handwritten notes for a course that he taught at the University of Ottawa on Canadian music (July 7-11, 1975).

File consists of a manuscript score arrangement of "Happy Birthday," written for Ernest MacMillan. File also includes a version of arranged by "C.D." and students of a Debussy grad course (March 9, 1988).

File consists of drafts and correspondence relating to Beckwith's entries on the MacMillan family in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (EMC).

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.

File contains photographs of Canadian musicians, many of which are signed, and most of which are not dated: John Beckwith (photo by Robert Lansdale); S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté with string quartet including Peggie Sampson and Victor Feldbrill; Herman Geiger-Torel; Irene Jessner; Greta Kraus; Sir Ernest MacMillan (2 photographs); Lois Marshall (2 photographs); Oskar Morawetz; Charles Peaker; Redferne Hollinshead; Hart House String Quartet (left to right, Milton Blackstone, Geza de Kresz, Boris Hambourg, Harry Adaskin; dedicated "To Lou Taube, 1937").

File consists of an autographed program.

File consists of correspondence relating to John Beckwith book Music at Toronto: A Personal Account (1995) and the preceding talks 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.

File consists of John Beckwith's notes, correspondence, and a program from a lecture at the Festival of the Sound (July 17-18, 1993) weekend symposium "The MacMillan Era, 1900-1950," which was held to mark the centenary of Sir Ernest MacMillan.

Composers: MacMillan (track 1) ; Sibelius (tracks 2-5)

File contains research notes, correspondence, and handwritten musical examples for John Beckwith's article, which was published in the Canadian University Music Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (1998).

File consists of manuscript parts for "A Song of Deliverance" by Sir Ernest MacMillan. This piece was included in the "Canada's Scottish Heritage" program at Music at Sharon (July 12, 1986). Arranged for B-flat clarinet, horn, percussion and SATB chorus.

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.

File consists of an autographed program.

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.

File consists of an autographed program.

File consists of correspondence and notes regarding Beckwith's time at CBC radio in general and for a documentary of Edward Lear (December 1985) and Ernest MacMillan (1968).

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.

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.

File includes a photograph of Carl Morey at the Orford String Quartet Summer School at Oakville, Ontario (1973); with Michael Tippett and Meirion Bowen in his office at the Faculty of Music (January 1987); and at the ribbon cutting at the University of Toronto Music Library [1992]. File also includes an autographed photograph from Michael Tippett to Morey [1987] and a souvenir album of photographs from the plaque unveiling ceremony held by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to commemorate Sir Ernest MacMillan (August 18, 1989). Morey attended the unveiling at Massey Hall and is photographed; also photographed were the Brass Quartet of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra; Prof. Thomas H.B. Symons, Chairman, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada; John P. Lawson, President, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall; William Littler; David MacDonald, M.P. Rosedale; Dr. E.S. Mackay, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church; Ross MacMillan, John B. Lawson, Keith MacMillan, Jean MacMillan, and Staff Sergeant Robert Robertson. The album includes a souvenir program from the event.

File also includes a poster for a public lecture by Carl Morey at the Huntington College Social Centre, Laurentian University, "New Music in Canada: the last twenty years" (January 26, 1981).

File contains an annotated copy of a paper, written by two Bachelor of Music students and annotated by [Sir Ernest MacMillan?].

File consists of an autographed program.

Collection consists of records from early conventions of the Ontario Music Teachers' Association (OMTA), primarily from the first convention, held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto (October 6-8, 1936). Papers include programs (1936-1944); correspondence; meeting minutes; lists of registrants; scripts for speeches, including an address by Sir Ernest MacMillan at the first convention; drafts of the OMTA constitution; and proceedings (1936, 1937).

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.

File consists of an autographed program.

Series consists of glass lantern slides of paintings, busts, caricatures, cartoons, and manuscript renderings of musicians, including: Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philip Emmanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, Notker Balbulus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Countess Therese Brunswick, Frederic Chopin, Arcangelo Corelli, Karl Czerny, Louis Claude Daquin, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Andrey Razumovsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Heinrich Schutz, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, and Mathilde Wesendonck. Series also includes slides of locations of significance to some composers (e.g., house in Eisenach where J.S. Bach was born); and reproductions of manuscripts by some of the composers.

File consists of a recording of a radio broadcast in tribute to Leslie Bell, narrated by Sir Ernest MacMillan, with contributions from MacMillan, George Bell, Joyce Sullivan, the Leslie Bell Singers, and others.

File consists of a recording of a radio broadcast in tribute to Leslie Bell, narrated by Sir Ernest MacMillan, with contributions from MacMillan, George Bell, Joyce Sullivan, the Leslie Bell Singers, and others

File consists of a recording from a concert in Walter Hall of music by Sir Ernest MacMillan, as part of the "Sir Ernest MacMillan remembered" series of concerts.

Program:

• Fanfare for a festival ; Fanfare for a centennial (Faculty of Music Brass Ensemble ; Jeffrey Reynolds, director)
• Cortege academique (John Tuttle, organ)
• Three French-Canadian sea songs (Rosemarie Landry, soprano ; Russell Braun, baritone ; Erika Raum, Corey Gemmell, violins ; Rennie Regehr, viola ; Marianne Pack, violoncello)
• Two Christmas carols (Norine Burgess, mezzo soprano ; Erika Raum, violin ; Rennie Regehr, viola ; Marianne Pack, violoncello)
• Six bergerettes du bas Canada (Rosemarie Landry, Norine Burgess, Russell Braun ; Lawrence Cherney, oboe ; Rennie Regehr, viola ; Marianne Pack, violoncello ; Nicolas Tulliez, harp)
• Two sketches for strings, based on French-Canadian airs
• String quartet in C minor (St. Lawrence String Quartet).