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Opera Exchange fonds

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  • 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

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.)

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.

Composers play : fundraiser for New Music Concerts

File consists of a recording of a concert at Gallery 345 as a fundraiser for New Music Concerts (NMC), which featured various composers associated with NMC performing music of their choice.

Performers: Brian Current, Adam Sherkin, John Beckwith, Bruce Mather, pianos ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Andrew Staniland, guitar ; Scott Good, trombone ; Adam Scime, contrabass.

Composer commission records

Subseries consists of records, including correspondence with composers and reports to and correspondence with granting agencies, for works commissioned by Esprit Orchestra. Esprit received commissioning support from Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Laidlaw Foundation.

Commissioned composers include: David Adamcyk, Robert Aitken, Istvan Anhalt, Sergio Barroso, Bob Becker, John Beckwith, Norma Beecroft, Allan Gordon Bell, Roger Bergs, Rose Bolton, Walter Boudreau, Brian Cherney, Brian Current, Omar Daniel, Paul Dolden, Tomas Dusatko, José Evangelista, Harry Freedman, Paul Frehner, Scott Good, Denis Gougeon, Chris Paul Harman, Vincent Ho, Peter Paul Koprowski, Harry Kucharzyk, Larry Lake, Michael Longtin, Alexina Louie, Raymond Luedeke, Andrew P. MacDonald, Bruce Mather, Maxine McKinley, Phil Nimmons, John Oswald, Alex Pauk, Yannick Plamondon, John Rea, André Ristic, James Rolfe, Erik Ross, Jeffrey Ryan, R. Murray Schafer, Ana Sokolovic, Harry Somers, Barry Truax, Owen Underhill, and John Wyre.

Miscellaneous tickets, invitations, and correspondence

File contains tickets, invitations, and miscellaneous correspondence sent to Carl Morey. File includes correspondence from Istvan Anhalt, John Beckwith, Joanne Mazzoleni, Healey Willan, Mario Bernardi, Richard Bradshaw, Jean Edwards, Neil Morey, and John Weinzweig. One letter from Anhalt includes enclosed photograph of Morey, Anhalt, John Burge, Marjan Mozetich, and Gordon Smith with a display on Anhalt at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (January 11, 2002).

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).

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.

New music festival : concert 2 and symposium on post modernism and beyond

File consists of a recording of the concert, which was part of the New Music Festival.

Performers: Vincent Ho, piano ; Scott St. John, violin; Simon Fryer, cello; Lydia Wong, piano ; Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; Scott Sr John, viola; Roman Boots, cello ; Composers choir; Petar Dundjerski, conductor ; Susan Hoeppner, flute; Rob D'Orante, oboe; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Nadina Jackson, bassoon ; Joan Watson, horn ; Ilya Poletaei piano ; Max Christie, clarinet; William Aide, piano ; Jens Lindemann, trumpet; Scott St. John, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Shauna Rolston, cello; John Kruspe, piano.
Symposium Panel: Christos Hatzis, John Beckwith, Chris Paul Harman, Paul Steenhuisen ; Chaired by Professor Gustav Ciamaga.

Program:

  • Three Scenes of Childhood. 1. Playtime 2. An Afternoon Nap 3. The Tantrum / Vincent Ho
  • Trio / David Litke
  • String Trio / Gary Kulesha
  • Kantata "Stabat Mater". Quam tristis / Katarina Curcin
  • Sextet / Roger Bergs
  • Special Presentation by the Martin Hunter Foundation
  • Dance, Improvisation and Song / John Hawkins
  • Blue Continuum / John Beckwith.
  • Symposium

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.

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).

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).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • An old song of the sun adn the moon ; The fear of loneliness / Paul Pedersen (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Nancy Wood, flute ; Christina Petrowska, piano)
  • Synthetic trios / John Beckwith (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Ameene Shishakly, clarinet ; Christina Petrowska, piano)
  • Nightcrawl / Dennis Patrick
  • Viola sonata / Sasha Rapoport (Kathy Rapoport, viola ; Elizabeth Acker, piano) (world premiere)
  • Ash roses / Derek Holman (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Che Anne Loewen, piano).

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).

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.

University of Toronto Concert Choir

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Robert Cooper, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Magnificat / Johann Pachelbel
  • Magnificat / Kaj-Erik Gustafsson
  • Festival Te Deum / Benjamin Britten
  • Mass "Alma Redemptoris". Kyrie ; Gloria / Tomas Luis de Vittoria
  • Gloria / Paul Patterson
  • Trois rondels / Reynaldo Hahn
  • Childhood lyrics / John Rutter
  • Reincarnations / Samuel Barber
  • Irish melodies / John Beckwith.

Faculty artists series : programme 3

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

Program:

  • Sonata in C major for cello and piano, op. 119 / Sergei Prokofiev (Vladimir Orloff, cello ; Patricia Parr, piano)
  • Chansons madecasses / Maurice Ravel (Linda Bennett, mezzo soprano ; Suzanne Shulman, flute ; Vladimir Orloff, cello ; William Aide, piano)
  • Avowals / John Beckwith (Henry Ingram, tenor ; John Beckwith, keyboards)
  • Quintet in E-flat major, K. 452 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Richard Dorsey, oboe ; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet ; David McGill, bassoon ; Eugene Rittich ; Patricia Parr, piano).

University of Toronto Wind Symphony

File consists of a program from a concert by the Wind Symphony, conducted by Stephen Chenette, at the College Band Directors National Association, 24th National Conference, at Northwestern University.

Program:

  • Fanfare of pride and joy for twelve trumpets and band / Tibor Polgar
  • Ensembles for winds / Gary Kulesha
  • Out of the blues / John Weinzweig
  • Elastic band studies in four movements / John Beckwith
  • Prologue and dramatic music for winds and percussion / Donald Coakley.

University of Toronto Wind Symphony

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the Wind Symphony, conducted by Stephen Chenette, in the MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Fanfare of pride and joy for twelve trumpets and band / Tibor Polgar
  • Ensembles for winds / Gary Kulesha
  • Out of the blues / John Weinzweig
  • Elastic band studies in four movements / John Beckwith
  • Prologue and dramatic music for winds and percussion / Donald Coakley
  • Batuque / Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, transc. Richard L. Wolfson
  • El salon Mexico / Aaron Copland, transc. Mark Hindsley
  • Sensemaya / Silvestre Revueltas, transc. Frank Benriscutto.

University of Toronto Concert Choir

File consists of a recording and program from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Robert Cooper, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 / Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Kyrie / Paul Patterson
  • Chichester psalms / Leonard Bernstein
  • Gloria / Danny Friedman
  • Sharon fragments / John Beckwith
  • Night music / Derek Holman
  • Free as the wind / Leo Marchildon
  • Traditional songs / John Rutter.

Great composers of the 20th century

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

Performers: Student Chamber Ensemble ; Ka Nin Chan, conductor.

Program:

  • Eight pieces for four timpani. Canaries / Elliott Carter (John Thompson, timpani)
  • Sonata for two pianos. Theme with variations / Igor Stravinsky (Kent Price, Amanta Scott, piano)
  • Sonatine / Karlheinz Stockhausen (Nancy Borusiewich, violin ; Leslee Lebar, piano)
  • 15 pieces for harp. Shadows / John Weinzweig (Sharlene Wallace, harp)
  • 15 pieces for harp. Quick march / John Weinzweig (Laura Stephenson, harp)
  • Sonatas and interludes (excerpts) / John Cage (Michael Karswick, prepared piano)
  • Sharon fragments / John Beckwith (Christine Sawicki, Sandra Schwartz, Susan Westmacott, Mirium Wolf, sopranos ; Francine Himelfarb, Carol Richardson, Jacqueline Tracy, Sheila Wills, altos ; Robert Kirstein, Jay Lambie, tenors ; Bruce Alcock, David Parker, Craig Penrose, Steve Warkentin, bass ; Julia Iacono, accompanist)
  • Funf Stucke fur Orchester, op. 10 / Anton Webern (Christine Feierabend, flute, piccolo ; Genevieve Graham, oboe ; Ameene Shishakly, E-flat clarinet ; Laurie Bell, B-flat clarinet ; Janet Parker, horn ; Valerie Cowie, trumpet ; John Loretan, trombone ; Laura Stephenson, harp ; Ian Wright, Craig Penrose, percussion ; Tony Streisslberger, celeste ; Janet Peaker, harmonium ; Liz Alford, violin ; Sheila Smyth, viola ; Margot Marlatt, cello ; Jeremy Webster, contrabass ; Any Charron, mandolin ; Rachel Gauk, guitar)
  • Baroque variations. Phorion / Lukas Foss (Jennifer Cluff, piccolo ; Christine Feierabend, flute ; Genevieve Graham, Lawrence Charge, oboe ; Brian Simpson, Ameen Shishakly, Laurie Bell, clarinet ; Maurizio Rossetto, soprano saxophone ; Eric Degray, bassoon ; Janey Sargent, Jennifer Wilson, Colleen Young, horn ; Mary Jay, Craig Penrose, Steve Warkentin, trumpet ; Lee Milliken, trombone ; Bruce Alcock, tuba ; Ian Wright, Craig Penrose, Lee Milliken, percussion ; Srah Tay, electric piano ; Andy Charron, electric guitar ; Paul Jenkins, electric organ ; Carol Fujino, Anita Buttemer, Valerie Sylvester, Marie-Andree Demers, Vicky Dvorak, Joanna Zabrowarna, violin ; Sheila Smyth, Marie-Claude BRunet, Rena De Coursey, viola ; Margot Marlatt, cello).

The University of Toronto Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

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

Performers: University of Toronto Contemporary Chamber Ensemble ; Stephen Chenette, Philip Headlam, Ezra Schabas, conductors.

Program:

  • Musical chairs / John Beckwith (Marc Sabat, Michael Sproule, violins ; Marie Claude Brunet, viola ; Laura Jones, violoncello ; Jeremy Webster, double bass ; Philip Headlam, condcutor)
  • Ophelia dances / Oliver Knussen (Tara Cornish, flute ; Peter Voisey, English horn ; Brian Simpson, clarinet ; Linda Bronicheski, horn ; Glenn Hodgins, piano ; Paul Thorlakson, celesta ; Marc Sabat, violin ; Marie Claude Brunet, viola ; Laura Jones, violoncello ; Ezra Schabas, conductor)
  • Sex carmina alcaei / Luigi Dallapiccola (Tara Cornish, flute ; Peter Voisey, English horn ; Brian Simpson, clarinet ; Wendy Rose, bassoon ; Linda Bronicheski, horn ; Robert Divito, trumpet, Sharlene Wallace, harp ; Glenn Hodgins, piano ; Marc Sabat, violin ; Marie Claude Brunet, viola ; Laura Jones, violoncello ; Angelique Leydier, soprano ; Stephen Chenette, conductor)
  • Concerto, op. 24 / Anton Webern (Tara Cornish, flute ; Peter Voisey, English horn ; Brian Simpson, clarinet ; Linda Bronicheski, horn ; Brian Divito, trumpet ; David Reid, trombone ; Glenn Hodgins, piano ; Marc Sabat, violin ; Marie Claude Brunet, viola ; Philip Headlam, conductor)
  • Nonet / Robert Gerhard (Tara Cornish, flute ; Peter Voisey, English horn ; Brian Simpson, clarinet ; Wendy Rose, bassoon ; Linda Bronicheski, horn ; Robert Divito, trumpet ; David Reid, trombone ; Bruce Alcock, tuba ; John Lettieri, accordion ; Ezra Schabas, conductor)

University of Toronto Concert Choir

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Choir, conducted by William Wright.

Program:

  • Das ist meine Freude / Johann Ludwig Bach
  • Two motets from Geistliche Chormusik / Heinrich Schutz
  • Sharon fragments / John Beckwith
  • Five flower songs / Benjamin Britten
  • To Saint Cecilia / Norman Dello Joio (Katika Isherwood, piano).

Faculty artists composers' concert

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

Performers: Nancy Mathis, violin ; Walter Buczynski, piano ; James McLean, tenor ; Gianetta Baril, harp ; Patricia Creighton, flute and piccolo ; Paul Grice, bass clarinet ; Harcus Hennigar, horn ; Marc Widner, piano ; Dominique Laplante, violin ; Ronald Hay, viola ; Dorothy Lawson, cello ; Peter Jones, bass ; Robin Engelman, conductor ; Dianne Aitken, flute ; Marie Berard, violin ; Jean Ducharme, tenor saxophone ; Geoffrey Leader, horn ; Paul Widner, cello ; Leslie Kinton, piano ; James Anagnoson, piano ; Hamis Gordon, oboe ; Donald Ross, clarinet ; Donald Shore, bassoon ; Michael White, trumpet ; Paul Prefontaine, violin ; Denis Beliveau, violin ; Ronald Hay, viola ; Beverly Spotton, viola ; Helen Kopec, cello ; Peter Jones, double bass ; John Hawkins, conductor

Program:

  • Sonata for Violin and Piano / Walter Buczynski (Nancy Mathis, violin; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Three songs for tenor and harp / John Hawkins (James McLean, tenor; Gianetta Baril, harp)
  • Concertino / Edward Laufer (Patricia Creighton, flute and piccolo ; Paul Grice, bass clarinet ; Harcus Hennigar, horn ; Marc Widner, piano ; Dominique Laplante, violin ; Ronald Hay, viola ; Dorothy Lawson, cello ; Peter Jones, bass ; Robin Engelman, conductor)
  • Case study / John Beckwith (Dianne Aitken, flute ; Marie Berard, violin ; Jean Ducharme, tenor saxophone ; Geoffrey Leader, horn ; Paul Widner, cello)
  • Canadiana for two pianos / Lothar Klein (Leslie Kinton, piano ; James Anagnoson, piano)
  • Concerto for 14 instruments / Talivaldis Kenins (Patricia Creighton, flute ; Hamish Gordon, oboe ; Donald Ross ; clarinet ; Donald Shore, bassoon ; Geoffery Leader, French horn ; Michael White, trumpet ; Paule Prefontaine, Marie Brerard, Denis Beliveau, violins ; Ronald Hay, Beverly Spotton, violas ; Helen Kopec, Paul Widner, cellos ; Peter Jones, double bass ; John Hawkins, conductor)

The University of Toronto Concert Band

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

Performers: Martha Collins, soprano ; Stephen Chenette, conductor ; The University of Toronto Concert Band

Program:

  • Echospace / Gil Trythall
  • Elastic band studies / John Beckwith
  • Fantasia for concert band / J. Scott Irvine
  • Lincolnshire Posy / Percy Grainger
  • Three Japanese dances / Bernard Rogers (Martha Collins, soprano)
  • Round dance / John Weinzweig (trans. Howard Cable)
  • Batuque / Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (trans. Richard L. Wolfson)
  • Suite of old American dances / Robert Russell Bennett

Case study, a multipurpose quintet

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

Performers: Robert A. Venables and Norman Garcia, trumpets ; Geoffrey Leader, French horn ; Susan Dustan, trombone ; Sal Fratia, tuba ; Dianne Aitken, and Joanne Geerling, flutes ; Marie Bérard, violin ; David Wadley, viola ; Paul Widner, cello ; Doug Watson, soprano saxophone ; Wendy Rothwell, alto saxophone ; Jean Ducharme, tenor saxophone ; Brian Crone, baritone saxophone ; David Longenecker, double bass

Program:

  • Case study, a multipurpose quintet. Quintet 1 / John Beckwith (Robert A. Venables and Norman Grace, trumpets ; Geoffrey Leader, French horn ; Susan Dustan, trombone ; Sal Fratia, tuba)
  • Case study, a multipurpose quintet. Quintet 2 / John Beckwith (Dianne Aitken and Joanne Geering, flutes ; Marie Bérard, violin ; David Wadley, viola ; Paul Widner, cello)
  • Case study, a multipurpose quintet. Quintet 3 / John Beckwith (Doug Watson, soprano saxophone ; Wendy Rothwell, alto saxophone ; Jean Ducharme, tenor saxophone ; Brian Crone, baritone saxophone ; David Longenecker, double bass)

The University Singers

File consists of a program from a concert by the University Singers, conducted by William Wright and Frances McShane, assistant conductor. The concert took place in Trinity College Chapel.

Program:

  • Balletti / Giovanni Gastoldi
  • Sharon fragments / John Beckwith
  • Five folk songs / arr. David Wilcocks
  • Three folk songs / arr. Max Reger
  • Five flower songs / Benjamin Britten.

Lois Marshall, mezzo-soprano ; John Beckwith, piano and harpsichord

File consists of a program from a concert presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Alumni Association. The concert took place in Walter Hall.

Performers: Lois Marshall, mezzo-soprano ; John Beckwith, piano and harpsichord ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello.

Program:

  • If music be the food of love ; Music for a while ; Bess of Bedlam / Henry Purcell
  • An Chloe, K. 524 ; Das Veilchen, K. 476 ; Sehsucht nach der Fruhlinge, K. 596 / Mozart
  • An die Musik, D. 547 ; Lachen und weinen, D. 777 ; Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 / Schubert
  • Four songs to poems by e.e. cummings / John Beckwith
  • Trois chansons de Bilitis / Claude Debussy.

Orford String Quartet

File consists of a program from a concert by the quartet-in-residence at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Program notes by Louis Wrazen.

Performers: Orford String Quartet (Andrew Dawes, Kenneth Perkins, violins ; Terence Helmer, viola ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello).

Program:

  • String quartet in B-flat, op. 76, no. 4 / Haydn
  • Quartet / John Beckwith
  • Quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 11 / Tchaikovsky.

Lorand Fenyves, violin ; Vladimir Orloff, cello ; John Kruspe, piano

File consists of a program from the concert, which took place in Walter Hall. Program notes by Dorothea Link.

Performers: Lorand Fenyves, violin ; Vladimir Orloff, cello ; John Kruspe, piano ; string ensemble ; John Beckwith, continuo.

Program:

  • Preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893 / J.S. Bach
  • Suite no. 3 in C major for unaccompanied violoncello, BWV 1009 / J.S. Bach
  • Partita in E major for unaccompanied violin, BWV 1006 / J.S. Bach
  • Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 / J.S. Bach.

Orford String Quartet CBC-FM dub

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

Performers: Orford String Quartet (Andrew Dawes, Kenneth Perkins, violins ; Terrence Helmer, viola ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello).

Program:

  • String quartet no. 17 in B-flat major : K. 458, La chasse / W.A. Mozart
  • String quartet / John Beckwith (premiere)
  • String quartet no. 14 in D minor. Part 1 / F. Schubert
  • String quartet no. 14 in D minor. Part 2 / F. Schubert.

William Aide, piano

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: William Aide, piano

Program:

  • Intermezzo in E major, op. 116, no. 4 / Brahms [with introduction by John Beckwith]
  • Intermezzo in C-sharp minor, op. 117, no.3 / Brahms
  • Sonata no. 5 / Harry Somers
  • Seven etudes
    • La leggiereza / Liszt
    • op. 25, no. 12 ; op. 10, no. 8 ; op. 25, no. 7 ; op. 10, no. 5 ; op. 25, no. 1 / Chopin
    • La campanella / Paganini-Liszt
  • [Encore. Etude : op. 25, no. 11 (Winter Wind) / Chopin]

Mary-Lou Fallis, coloratura soprano ; Gary Relyea, baritone ; Kathryn Root, piano

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

Performers: Mary-Lou Fallis, soprano ; Gary Relyea, baritone ; Kathryn Root, piano ; Rita Greer, clarinet ; Martin Shaver, cello

Program:

  • Cantate 21 : Ich hatte viel bekümneris / Bach
  • Komm, mein Jesu, und erquicke / Bach
  • Cantate 32 : Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen : Ach heiliger und grosser Gott ; Nun verschwinden alle plagen / Bach
  • An die ferne Geliebte / Beethoven
  • Serate musicali : La promessa ; La gita in gondola ; La pastorella / Rossini
  • Don Giovanni : Deh vieni alla finestra ; La ci darem la mano / Mozart
  • Brentano Lieder : Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden ; Amor ; Dein Lied erklang / R. Strauss
  • The great lakes suite / J. Beckwith (with Rita Greer, clarinet ; Martin Shaver, cello)
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