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Photographs

Subseries consists of photographs and contact sheets of most major Opera School productions between 1946 and 2016; headshots of performers and administrators (Kathryn Knapp, John Beckwith, Ettore Mazzoleni, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jacqui Lynn Fidlar, Tania Perrish, Eve-Rachel McLeod, Herman Geiger-Torel, Virginia Lippert, Marion Parsons, Ernesto Barbini, Ermanno Mauro, Alpar the fencing master); and photographs from various Opera School events, including the Opera Department's 25th anniversary, the commemoration of the Herman Geiger-Torel room, and Lofti Mansouri's visit. Subseries also includes photographs of MacMillan Theatre, Walter Hall, the construction of the Edward Johnson Building, opera student scholarship winners, and Helen May's lesson with Dr. Ernesto Vinci, with Emelie Rubleu at the piano (June 25, 1952).

Subseries includes photographs from the following productions:

  • Opera excerpts (December 1946)
  • The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (April 1947)
  • Orfeo and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (February 1948)
  • Rosalinda by Johann Strauss (May 1948)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1948)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1949)
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (May 1949)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (November 1950)
  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (February 1950)
  • Opera School film by the National Film Board (1951)
  • The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1952)
  • Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (February 1953)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (February 1953)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (May 1953)
  • The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1955)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1959)
  • The Marriage contract by Gioachino Rossini (April 1960)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (April 1961)
  • The Mother by Alois Hába (April 1961)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi (April 1961)
  • A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley (April 1962)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1963)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1964)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (March 1964) [opening of MacMillan Theatre]
  • Angélique by Jacques Ibert and Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (April 1964)
  • The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (February 1965)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (April 1965)
  • The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (December 1965)
  • L'Oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1966)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (February 1966)
  • The Portuguese Inn by Luigi Cherubini and The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst (March 1966)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (September 1966)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1966)
  • The Impressario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet (January 1967)
  • The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (February 1967)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (April 1967)
  • Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (November 1967)
  • Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet and There and Back by Paul Hindemith (December 1967)
  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1967)
  • The Unwilling Physician by Salvatore Allegra and Il Combattimento di Tancredi by Claudio Monteverdi (January 1968)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy (March 1968)
  • The Turk in Italy by Gioachino Rossini (November 1968)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1968)
  • Hamlet by Humphrey Searle (February 1969)
  • Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss (March 1969)
  • "A School for Opera" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and GIacomo Puccini (March 1970)
  • Iphigenie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (November 1970)
  • The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (December 1970)
  • "The Magic of Opera" by Carl Maria von Weber, Giuseppe Verdi, and Jacques Offenbach (March 1971)
  • The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (December 1971)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1972)
  • Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (January 1973)
  • L'Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli (April 1973)
  • The Prisoner's Play by John Rea (May 1973)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1974)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1974)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (April 1974)
  • The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (January 1975)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 1975)
  • The Crucible by Robert Ward (January-February 1976)
  • The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney Bennett (April 1976)
  • The Four Ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 1977)
  • Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček (March 1977)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (December 1977)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (December 1977)
  • Don Giovanni by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1978)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (November 1978)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (March 1979)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (November 1979)
  • Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1980)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1980)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1981)
  • La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach (November 1981)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1982)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1982)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel (March 1983)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1983)
  • Opera excerpts (1983)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi and Prima Donna by Arthur Benjamin (November-December 1983)
  • Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1984)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1985)
  • Mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1986)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1987)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (March 1987)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1988)
  • The Marriage Contract by Gioachino Rossini (March 1988)
  • La Caterina by Joseph Haydn (March 1989)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (March 1989)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1990)
  • "French Trilogy": L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy, Le portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet, and M. Choufleuri by Jacques Offenbach (February 1991)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1992)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (March 1993)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1993)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1994)
  • Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1995)
  • L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier [March 1997]
  • La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1997)
  • Paul Bunyan, op. 17 by Benjamin Britten (March 1998)
  • Threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht (November 1998)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1999)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 by Benjamin Britten (November 1999)
  • La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini (February 2000)
  • Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss (November 2006)
  • L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel [March 2009]
  • The Secret marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (2010)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 2011)
  • Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (November 2013)
  • The Machine Stops by Patrick McGraw, Robert Taylor and Stephen Webb, libretto by Michael Albano, based on the short story by E.M. Forster (January 2016)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss (n.d.)
  • The Four ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (n.d.)
  • Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (n.d.)
  • Orpheus (n.d.)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (n.d.)
  • Riders to the sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (n.d.)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (n.d.)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy (n.d.)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • M. Choufleri by Jacques Offenbach (n.d.)
  • Manon by Jules Massenet (n.d.)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (n.d.)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)

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.

John Beckwith

File consists of copies of newspaper articles and programs featuring John Beckwith, as well as a pamphlet from BMI Canada Limited on the composer, and two programs from performances by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with program notes by Beckwith.

John Beckwith : [photographs]

File consists of promotional photographs of John Beckwith, taken at various points in his career. File includes photographs of Beckwith hiking on the Franz Joseph glacier, and of the Music Building at the University of Auckland, which he visited during his sabbatical [1977-1978].

Canada Council : articles, talks, and brief

File consists of copy of brief from Canadian Music Council; typescripts of preparatory articles on performance (Gilles Lefebvre, JMC), public libraries (Ogreta McNeill, CMLA), university libraries (Graham George, Queen's), foreign relations (Boyd Neel, RCM), composers (John Beckwith, CLC), and music education (Leslie Bell); photocopy of talk by MacMillan on receiving Canada Council medal, 1964.

Correspondence with composers and performers, mainly of the 1960s avant-garde

File contains correspondence with: Frances (James) Adaskin, Murray Adaskin, Bill Aide, Anne Aitchison, Istvan Anhalt, Robert and Mary Ashley, Stanley Lunetta, Larry Austin (Source magazine), John Beckwith, Michael van Biel, George Caccioppo, Barney Childs, Oliver Daniel, Marvin Duchow, Judith Dunn, Morton Feldman, Dick Higgins, Harold Henderson, Otto Joachim, Burton Kaplan, Karl Kohn, Ernst Krenek, Brian Longworth (student composer at McGill), Alvin Lucier, William Maraldo, Edward Miller, John Mills-Cockell, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, Gardner Read, Raymond Rendall, George Rochberg, Donald Scavarda, Murray Schafer, Harry Somers, Bertram Turetzky, Aurelio de la Vega, Raymond Wilding-White, Eugene Wilson, and Klaus van Wrochem.

The Canadian String Quartet

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events Series" at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. The performance took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: The Canadian String Quartet (Albert Pratz, Bernard Robbins, violins ; David Mankovitz, viola ; Laszlo Varga, cello) ; Mary Simmons, soprano ; Isaac Mamott, cello.

October 18, 1962:

  • Quartet in F major, K. 590 / Mozart
  • Second quartet, op. 17 / Bartok
  • Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 / Beethoven

January 17, 1963:

  • Quartet in F minor, op. 95 / Beethoven
  • Third quartet / Weinzweig (premiere performance)
  • Quartet no. 1 in F minor, op. 10 / Hindemith

March 14, 1963

  • Quintet in C major, op. 163 / Schubert
  • Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10 / Schoenberg.

Hungarian Quartet

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, which took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by Helmut Kallmann and John Beckwith.

Performers: Hungarian Quartet (Zoltan Szekely, Michael Kuttner, violins ; Denes Koromzay, viola ; Gabriel Magyar, cello).

Program:

  • Quartet in F major, op. 59, no. 1 / Beethoven
  • Five movements for string quartet, op. 5 / Webern
  • Quartet in D minor, Opus Posthumous / Schubert.

Lenox Quartet

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, which took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Lenox Quartet (Peter Marsh, Theodora Mantz, violins ; Paul Hersh, viola ; Donald McCall, cello)

Program:

  • String Quartet in C major, K. 465 / Mozart
  • String Quartet no. 2 / Elliott Carter
  • String Quartet in F major / Ravel.

Stanley Quartet

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, which took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Stanley Quartet (Gilbert Ross, Gustave Rosseels, violins ; Robert Courte, viola ; Jerome Jelinek, cello)

Program:

  • Quartet in D major, K. 499 / Mozart
  • Quartet no. 8 / Quincy Porter
  • Quartet in C major, op. 59, no. 3 / Beethoven.

Vegh Quartet

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events" series at the university of Toronto Faculty of Music, which took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Vegh Quartet (Sandor Vegh, Sandor Zoldy, violins ; George Janzer, viola ; Paul Szabo, cello).

Program:

  • Quartet in D minor, D. 810 (Death and the maiden) / Franz Schubert
  • Quartet in A minor, op. 41, no. 1 / Robert Schumann.

Lorand Fenyves, violinist ; Pierre Souvairan, pianist

File consists of a program from a recital in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Lorand Fenyves, violin ; Pierre Souvairan, piano

Program:

  • Sonata, op. 78 / Brahms
  • Sonata for solo violin / Bartok
  • Sonata, op. 47 / Beethoven.

Prague Quartet

File consists of a program from a concert in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Prague Quartet (Bretislav Novotny, Karel Pribyl, violins ; Jaroslav Karlovsky, viola ; Zdenek Konicek, cello).

Program:

  • Quartet in F major, op. 18, no. 1 / Beethoven
  • Quartet no 1 after Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata / Leos Janacek
  • Quartet in E minor / Bedrich Smetana.

A Schubert programme : Anton Kuerti, pianist

File consists of a program from a concert in the "Special Events" series at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith and Anton Kuerti.

Performers: Anton Kuerti, piano

Program:

  • Moments musicaux, op. 94 / Schubert
  • Fantasy in C major, op. 15 / Schubert
  • Sonata in G major, op. 78 / Schubert.

Borodin Quartet

File consists of a program from a concert that took place in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Borodin Quartet (Rotislav Dubinsky, Yaroslav Alexandrov, violins ; Dimitri Shebalin, viola ; Valentin Berlinsky, cello)
Revised program:

  • Third quartet, op. 22 / Hindemith
  • Quartet no. 4 in D major, op 83 / Shostakovich
  • Five movements for string quartet, op. 5 / Webern
  • Quartet in F major, op. 59, no. 1 / Beethoven.

Shmuel Ashkenasi, violinist ; Anton Kuerti, pianist

File consists of a program from a concert that took place in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin ; Anton Kuerti, piano.

Program:

  • Sonata in G major, K. 379 / Mozart
  • Sonata no. 1 in A minor, op. 105 / Schumann
  • Sonata / Debussy
  • Rondeau brillant in B minor, D. 895 / Schubert.

Berlin Philharmonic Octet

File consists of a program from a concert in the Concert Hall at the Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Octet (Alfred Malacek, violin ; Rudolf Harmtann, violin and viola ; Kunio Tsuchiya, viola ; Heinrichs Majowski, cello ; Rainer Zepperitz, double bass ; Herbert Staehr, clarinet ; Hans Lemke, bassoon ; Gerd Seifert, horn).

Program:

  • Octet / Boris Blacher
  • Octet (Four fantasies from "Kammermusik 1958") / Hans Werner Henze
  • Octet / Paul Hindemith.

The Amadeus Quartet

File consists of a program from a concert in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith and Helmut Kallmann.

Performers: Amadeus Quartet (Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, violin ; Peter Schidlof, viola ; Martin Lovett, cello)

Program:

  • Quartet in C major, op. 76, no. 3 / Haydn
  • Quartet in D major, K. 499 / Mozart
  • String Quartet in A minor, op. 29 / Schubert.

Canada dash, Canada dot

File consists of a program from a concert presented by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in co-operation with BMI Canada Limited. The concert took place in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building.

Performers: Nancy Griffin, Virginia McLeod, Jonathan Beckwith, Arch McDonell, Sandy Webster, speakers ; Mary Morrison, soprano ; Patricia Rideout, contralto ; Jan Van Evera, folksinger ; Richard Braun, baritone ; Walter Verikaitis, bass ; Robert Aitken, flute, piccolo ; Bernard Temoin, clarinet, bass clarinet ; Fred Stone, trumpet ; Ted Roderman, trombone ; Vair Capper, percussion ; Corol McCartney, violin ; Eugene Hudson, viola ; William Kuinka, mandolin, string bass ; Gordon Kushner, piano, celeste ; John Beckwith, piano, celeste, harmonium.

Program:

  • Canada dash, Canada dot / John Beckwith, James Reaney.

Informal concert by students in the ensemble classes of the Faculty of Music

File consists of a program from a concert in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building.

Program:

  • Quartet for piano and strings / Talivaldis Kenins (Patrick Li, piano ; Elaine Mossop, violin ; Margot Burton, viola ; Norman Abbott, cello)
  • Woodwind quintet / Endre Szervanszky (Earl Brubacher, flute ; Harold Gomez, clarinet ; Kathleen Bauman, oboes ; David Klaussner, bassoon ; John MacDonald, French horn)
  • Quartet for double basses. Prelude / A. Dubensky (George Greer, Jane McAdam, Peter Ness, Peter Madgett, double basses)
  • Quartet for double basses. Allegro / Gunther Schuller (George Greer, Jane McAdam, Peter Ness, Peter Madgett, double basses)
  • Circle, with tangents / John Beckwith (Isabel Vila, Elaine Mossop, Noriko Hayashida, Helen Schmidt, Terry Holowach, Rosemarie Kilimasko, Ann Woolner, violins ; Margot Burton, Ian Wenham, Alan Teeple, violas ; Norman Abbott, Esther Gartner, cellos ; Jane McAdam, contrabass ; Sandra Erdman, harpsichord).

The Guarneri String Quartet ; Anton Kuerti, pianist

File consists of a program from a concert in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Guarneri String Quartet (Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, violins ; Michael Tree, viola ; David Soyer, cello) ; Anton Kuerti, piano)

Program:

  • Quartet in C minor, op. 18, no. 4 / Beethoven
  • Quartet in F major / Ravel
  • Piano quintet in A major, op. 81 / Dvorak.

Lorand Fenyves, violinist

File consists of a program from a concert in the Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. Program notes by John Beckwith.

Performers: Lorand Fenyves, violin ; Faculty ensemble with students from Fenyves' violin class (Adele Armin, Noriko Hayashida, Terry Holowach, Elaine Klimasko, Elaine Mossop, Isabel Vila, Kathryn Wunder, Karen Zafer, violins ; Margot Burton, Claude Hamel, violas ; Norman Abbott, David Hetherington, violoncelli ; Sandra Erdman continuo).

Program:

  • Concerto in D minor / Giuseppe Tartini
  • Concerto in C major, H. VIIa, 1 / Josef Haydn
  • Adagio and rondo concertante in A major, D. 438 / Franz Schubert
  • Concerto in D minor / Johann Sebastian Bach.

Faculty of Music open house

File consists of a program from the Open House at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. The day included a welcome address by Dr. Boyd Neel, Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a concert by students of the Faculty of Music, introduced by Prof. Ezra Schabas, as well as tours and discussions of various Faculty of Music courses by professors. The day ended with a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Band.

Lecture-demonstration : Spatial-antiphonal music by Henry Brant

File consists of a program and recording of a lecture-demonstration by Henry Brant in the Concert Hall of the Edward Johnson Building.

Performers: members of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Robert Aitken, John Beckwith, Robert Falck, Herbert Muller, assisting conductors ; Lorand Fenyves, Victor Martin, Thomas Monahan, Richard Ford, rehearsal assistants.

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of the program and recording from the event.

Program:

  • Mother's apple pie / Marjan Mozetich (Marjan Mozetich, piano)
  • G A S / John Beckwith (University of Toronto Concert Choir)
  • Piece for trombone / John Cage (John Dowden, trombone)
  • Prospects / Alex Pauk (unidentified performers).

Serge Garant biography

File contains typescript of Draft II, including 2 versions of conclusion: 113 1; Photocopies of music examples: 20 + 2 + 18 1; and, correspondence with Ron Schoeffel, John Beckwith, Garant, and Keith MacMillan.

[Untitled concert]

File consists of the program and recording from the event.

Performers: Robert Aitken, flute ; Melvin Berman, oboe ; Ezra Schabas, clarinet ; George Stimpson, horn ; William Philips, trumpet ; Kenneth Knowles, trombone ; Robin Engelman, John Wyre, percussion ; Victor Martin, violin ; Kathy Wunder, viola ; Vladimir Orloff, cello ; John Beckwith, harpsichord, piano ; John Hawkins, Eugene Plawutsky, piano ; Harvey Sachs, conductor.

Program:

  • Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and piano : op. 24 / Webern
  • Sonata for two pianos / Stravinsky
  • Trio sonata in G major : BWV 1039 / Bach
  • Sonata for two pianos and percussion / Bartok.

Contemporary music and ethnomusicology : concert and discussion

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.
Performers: various

Program:

  • Floating Cloud for Small Orchestra / Liang Min-yueh
  • Sinfonía India / Carlos Chávez (University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Victor Feldbrill, conductor)
  • First Rhapsody for Violin and Piano / Béla Bartók (Lorand Fenyves, violin ; Pierre Souvairan, piano)
  • Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano / Mieczyslaw Kolinski (Barbara Bolte, oboe ; Charles Foreman, piano)
  • Yün / Chou Wen-chung (Peg Rannem, flute ; Richard Thomson, clarinet ; Kathy Husband, bassoon ; Norah Fraser, horn ; Tim Watson, trumpet ; Rick Carswell, trombone ; Allen Beard, Jerry Ronson, percussion ; Lawrence Brown, piano ; John Beckwith, conductor)
  • To the lands Over Yonder : Eskimo Hunting Song / John Weinzweig
  • Miniwanka / R. Murray Schafer
  • Five Songs of the Newfoundland Outports. Si j'avais le bateau / Harry Somers (University of Toronto Concert Choir ; Lloyd Bradshaw, conductor)

Letters and printouts of emails from correspondents

File contains correspondence from the following, divided into four folders:

  • Folder 1: Michael Albano; Doreen Allison Ryan; Istvan Anhalt; Cindy Babyn; Bob Becker; John Beckwith; Mary Bella; Dylan Benson; JoAnne Bentley; Robert Birgeneau; Stephen Chenette; George Crumb; Eric Domville; Kondrad Eisenbichler; Timothy Findlay; Charles Foreman; Timothy Francom; Pierrette Froment-Savoie; John (Greer ?); James Grier
  • Folder 2. Doreen Hall; Barbara Hannigan; Fred D. Hinger; Syd Hodkinson; Guy Huot (Canadian Music Council); Michael I. Kim; Lubka Kolessa; Gary Kulesha; John B. Lawson; Ralph Lindheim; Alasdair MacLean; Timothy McGee; Oskar Morawetz; David Myska
  • Folder 3. Bruce Mather
  • Folder 4. Donna Orwin (Tolstoy Studies Journal); Paul Pedersen; Eugene Plawutsky; Erik Ross; Clare Scholtz; (Pierre Souvairan ?); Peter Stoll; Cathy Stone; Richard Truhlar (Canadian Music Centre); Bruce Ubukata; Cameron Walter; and Christopher Wilson.

New Music Concerts : [Guest composer David Bedford]

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert.

Program:

  • Solstices / Gilles Tremblay (Robert Aitken, flute ; Stanley McCartney, clarinet ; Eugene Rittich, horn ; Thomas Monahan, double bass ; John Wyre, Robin Engelman, percussion)
  • Spillihpnerak / David Bedford (Paul Armin, viola)
  • Taking a stand / John Beckwith (Canadian Brass)
  • Pentomino ; With 100 Kazoos (premiere) / David Bedford (Pentomino : Toronto Winds ; With 100 Kazoos : Robert Aitken, flute ; Melvin Berman, oboe ; Stanley McCartney, clarinet ; Howard Knopf, bass clarinet ; Graeme Page, horn ; Fred Mills, trumpet ; Eugene Watts, trombone ; Victor Martin, Fujiko Adaman, violins ; Paul Armin, viola ; Bill Findlay, cello ; Thomas Monahan, double bass ; David Bedford, conductor)

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).

Memorial tribute to Arnold Maria Walter (1902-1973)

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in the Concert Hall in the Edward Johnson Building.

Program:

  • Agnus Dei / Morley (vocal ensemble directed by Douglas Bodle)
  • Two chorale preludes : Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier ; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme / Johann Ludwig Krebs (Stephen Chenette, trumpet ; Douglas Bodle, organ)
  • Tribute by John Beckwith, Dean, Faculty of Music
  • Larghetto from quintett : K. 581 / Mozart (Howard Knopf, clarinet ; Loran Fenyves, Victor Martin, violins ; Kathryn Wunder, viola ; Vladimir Orloff, cello)
  • Die zwei blauen Augen, from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Mahler (Jeannette Zarou, soprano ; John Coveart, piano)

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)

Music for flutes by flutists

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in Walter Hall. The concert featured the flutes donated by Mr. Sydney Fisher.

Performers: Penny Clarke, flute ; Fiona Wilkinson, flute ; Elizabeth McBurney, flute ; Dodie Layton, flute ; Ann Keefer, flute ; Sharon Tuttle, keyboard ; Constance Stewart, piano ; Robert Aitken, flute

Program:

  • Concerto no. 1 for five transverse flutes : op. 15 / Joseph Bodin de Boismortier [with introductory remarks]
  • Duo no. 3 : op. 2 / Johann Joachim Quantz [with introductory remarks]
  • Suite in e minor : op. 2, no. 4, allemande, gavotte, and branle de village / Jacques Hotteterre, le Romain
  • The grand trio : op. 90, scherzo / Friedrich Kuhlau [with introductory remarks]
  • Brief remarks by Mr. Sidney Fisher, introduced by John Beckwith, Dean, Faculty of Music
  • Andante pastoral et scherzettino / Paul Taffanel [with introductory remarks]
  • Grand quatuor de concert in f-sharp minor : op. 46 / Eugene Walkiers [with introductory remarks].

La Chorale de Concert avec l'Ensemble de Cuivres

File consists of a program for a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Charles Heffernan and the Brass Ensemble, conducted by Stephen Chenette and Bruce McGregor, from their tour to the University of Ottawa, Universite de Montreal, and Universite Laval.

Program:

  • Gloria and alleluia / Sven Lekberg
  • Ubi caritas / Maurice Durufle
  • Psalm 98 / Hugo Distler
  • Locus Iste / Bruckner
  • Schaffe in mir, Gott/ Brahms
  • O vos omnes / Pablo Casals, arr. Leopold Stokowski
  • Sonata octavi toni / Giovanni Gabrieli, ed. Robert King
  • Nun danket alle Gott / Pachelbel (Naomi Oliphant, piano)
  • Theme et quatre variations pour cuivres / Thomas Merriman
  • Top brass / Alan Shulman
  • Gas! / John Beckwith (Rick Cunningham, counter-tenor ; Carolyn Martin, soprano)
  • Trois pieces de l'Alouette / Leonard Bernstein
  • Deux chansons populaires canadiennes / arr. Keith Bissell (Mark Dubois, tenor ; Cheryl Lichter, soprano ; Lorelyn Horsburgh)
  • Cantate de Noel / Daniel Pinkham.

University of Toronto Concert Choir and University Singers

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

Performers: University of Toronto Concert Choir ; University of Toronto University Singers ; Charles Heffernan, conductor

Program:

  • Psalm 66 / Hans Leo Hassler
  • Benedictus / Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Nun danket alle Gott / Pachelbel (Concert Choir ; Christopher Morrison, Howard Baer, trumpets ; Cameron Walter, Wayne Parker, trombones ; Naomi Oliphant, harpsichord)
  • Te Deum / Verdi (University Singers and Concert Choir ; Janice Malinsky, soprano ; Bruce McGregor, trumpet ; Naomi Oliphant, piano)
  • Concert choir : gas! / John Beckwith
  • French choruses from The lark / Leonard Bernstein (Carolyn Martin, soprano ; Rick Cunningham, countertenor)
  • Two Canadian folk songs / arr. Keith Bissell (Cheryl Lichter, soprano ; Lorelyn Horsburgh, alto ; Mark Dubois, tenor)
  • Love song waltzes : op. 52 / Brahms (Shirley Madden, soprano ; Lee Willingham, tenor ; Naomi Oliphant, Derek Bate, pianos).

Composers : letters

File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence with commissioning composers and about commisions for the John Adaskin Project. Correspondents include: Hilda Morgan, Graham Coles (Berandol Music Limited), George Andrix, Thomas Baker, John Beckwith, W.H. Belyea, Keith Bissell, Dean G. Blair, Alexander Brott, Morley Calvert, Donald Coakley, Maurice Dela, Joe Macerollo, Quenten Doolittle, Margaret Dryman, Mario Duschenes, Harry Freedman, James M. Gayfer, David Keane, Talivaldis Kenins, David Ford, R.E.J. Milne, Lois Kivesto, Dermott O'Reilly, Irene Pasch, Peter H. Riddle, Godfrey Ridout, David W. Murray, R. Murray Schafer, Harry Somers, Mrs. G. A. Steele, Paul Sweetman, and James Whicher.

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