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Third year undergraduate singers in performance

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

Performers: Suzy Smith, piano

Program:

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

Hear! Hear! Remembering John Beckwith

File consists of a program and recording of an event that took place in Walter Hall. All music on the program was composed or arranged by John Beckwith.

Program:

  • Calling (New Music Concerts Ensemble)
  • Speaker (Larry Beckwith)
  • Six songs to poems by e.e. cummings. o purple finch ; Jimmie's got a goil / John Beckwith (Bradley Christensen, baritone ; Steven Philcox, piano)
  • Halifax / arr. John Beckwith, original text by Jay MacPherson (Alison Beckwith, Katy Clark, Teri Dunn, voices; Dianne Aitken, flute)
  • Speaker (Ellie Hisama)
  • All at once : two fragments by bpNichol / John Beckwith (Opus 8 Vocal Ensemble ; Robert Busiakiewicz, director)
  • Follow me. Third movement / John Beckwith(Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Christopher Bagan, piano)
  • Taptoo!. Act I, Scene 6 and Act II Prelude / John Beckwith, libretto by James Reaney (University of Toronto Opera ; Sandra Horst, director ; Spencer Kryzanowski, pian)
  • Speaker (Brian Cherney)
  • Sonatina on "Mairi's wedding" / John Beckwith (Robert Aitken, flute ; Christopher Bagan, piano)
  • A man and his flute / John Beckwith (Monica Whicher, soprano ; Steven Philcox, piano)
  • Speaker (Robin Elliott)
  • Sharon fragments / John Beckwith, texts by David Wilson (Sounstreams' Choir 21 ; David Fallis, director)
  • Speaker (Kathleen McMorrow)
  • Three Burns songs. Ae fond kiss / Traditional, arr. John Beckwith, texts by Robert Burns (Soundstreams' Choir 21 ; Opus 8 Vocal Ensemble ; Christopher Bagan, piano).

Little elegies

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

Performers: Monica Whicher, soprano ; Steven Philcox, piano

Program:
Part 1:

  • Scheidend, op. 9, no. 6 / Felix Mendelssohn ; Johann Gustav Droysen
  • Little elegy / Ned Rorem ; Elinor Wylie
  • Velvet shoes / Ray Lustig, Elinor Wylie
  • Evening primrose. I remember / Steven Sondheim
  • To a poet. On parent knees, op. posthumous / Gerald Finzi, attr. William Jones after the Persian
  • Five Millay songs. Branch by brach / H. Leslie Adams, Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The New ghost / Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fredegond Shove
  • The Lordly Hudson / Ned Rorem, Paul Goodman

Part 2:

  • Hjertets melodier, op. 5, no. 3 / Jeg elsker Dig (Edvard Grieg, Hans Christian Andersen)
  • Peer Gynt, op. 23. Solveig's lullaby / Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen
  • Five songs from Canadian traditional collections. J'ai perdu mon amant / arr. John Beckwith
  • Asteri mou, feggari mou / Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Gatsos
  • Three songs for Diane Kaish, in memorium, 2015. Sonnet : Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring / Sheila Silver, Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Down by the Salley gardens / Ivor Gurney, William Butler Yeats
  • My feet may take a little while / Errollyn Wallen
  • Nature boy / eden ahbez, arr. Sharon Minemoto..

A celebration of Faculty of Music composers

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Women's Chamber Choir ; Dr. Lori-Anne Dolloff, conductor ; Eunseong Cho, collaborative pianist ; MacMillan Singers ; David Fallis, conductor ; Trevor Dearham, assistant conductor ; Lara Dodds-Eden, collaborative pianist

Program:

  • If My Voice Departs / Shireen Abu-Khader (Ineza Mugisha, soloist)
  • How the Blossoms are Falling / Ramona Luengen
  • Birdsong / Paul Read (Sierra Ward-Bond and Alyssa Meyerwitz, soloists)
  • One Sister Have I in Our House / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • Psalm Trilogy / Srul Irving Glick (Claire Latosinsky, Olivia Spahn-Vieira, Roanna Kitchen, Heeyun Lee, Abigail Kirton, Abigail Sinclair and Shelley Mayer, soloists ; with Members of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra)
  • Ikan Kekek / Tracy Wong (Roanna Kitchen, soloist ; Breanne Dharmai and Emily Harris, hand drums)
  • Blanche comme la neige / arr. Ernest MacMillan (Dante Santone, Lutzen Riedstra, Derrell Woods, Christian Umipig, soloists)
  • I Sing / Matthew Emery (Trevor Dearham, conductor ; Aleh Remezau, oboe)
  • Psalm 1, from "Harp of David" / John Beckwith (Gabrielle Turgeon, Olivia Guselle, Emily Rocha, Jeremy Tingle, Kai Leung, soloists)
  • Come lovely and soothing death / James Rolfe
  • Encroachment / Tristan Zaba (Rachel Allen, Kristian Lo, soloists)
  • Night music / Derek Holman (Autumn Zhao, Mara Bowman, soloists ; with Members of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra).

Canadian art song project : paint me a song

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

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

Program:

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

University of Toronto concert orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Concert Orchestra Bryan Holt, conductor

Program:

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

Starting from porcupine

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

Performers: William Aide, lecturer and pianist

Program:

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

A 90th celebration of John Beckwith

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Program:

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

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.)

Opera Exchange fonds

  • OTUFM 86
  • Fonds
  • 2001-2015, 2001-2009 predominant

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

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

Symposia:

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

Clark, Caryl Leslie

Follow us

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

The Macmillan Theatre : fifty operatic years

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

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

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Program:

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

Music for St Cecilia day

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

Composers play : fundraiser for New Music Concerts

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  • June 1, 2012
  • [இதன்] பகுதியானGallery 345 fonds

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.

Toronto and the War of 1812

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

Miscellaneous tickets, invitations, and correspondence

  • OTUFM 52-E-5
  • File
  • 1986-2011
  • [இதன்] பகுதியானCarl Morey fonds

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).

Gamut ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

Gamut ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

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 : Walter Hall

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

University of Toronto wind ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

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.

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.

St. Patrick's music

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

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

Program:

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

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].

Taptoo! : an opera by John Beckwith and James Reaney

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

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

Taptoo! : a symposium

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

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

Program:

  • Disscussion and excerpts from Taptoo!

Great young Canadian singers

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

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

Program:

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

The Aldeburgh Connection : great song marathon : evening

File consists of a recording of the concert.

Performers: Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Norine Burgess, mezzo soprano ; Chatherine Robbin, mezzo soprano ; Valdine Anderson, soprano ; Giles Tomkins, baritone ; Colin Ainsworth, tenor ; Bruce Ubukata ; Monica Whicher, soprano ; Catherine Robbin, mezzo ; Mary Lou Fallis, soprano.

Program:

  • An die Nacht, op. 68/1 ; Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden, op. 68/2 ; Säusle, liebe Myrthe, op. 68/3 / Richard Strauss.
  • Chansons de Bilitis. La flûte de Pan ; la chevelure ; le tombeau de Naïades / Claude Debussy
  • Liederkreis, op. 39. Waldegespräch ; zwielicht ; frühlingsnacht / Robert Schumann
  • Drei lieder nach Hildegard jone, op. 25. Wie bin ich froh! ; Des Herzens Purpurvogel fliegt duch Nacht ; Sterne, Ihr silbernen Bienen / Anton Webern
  • Lullaby ; sleep ; the fox ; yarmouth fair / Peter Warlock
  • Seven sonnets of Michelangelo. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi ; rendete a gli occhi miei ; s'un casto amor ; spirto ben nato / Benjamin Britten
  • I went to a varvellous party / Noel Coward
  • A man and his flute / John Beckwith
  • My lute, awake / Welford Russell
  • Abschied / Hugo Wolf
  • Mogen!, op. 27/4 / Richard Strauss
  • A Canadian Encore...

Percussion ensemble

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

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

Program:

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

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

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

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 : 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.

Thursday noon series : twentieth-century music for the oboe

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

Program:

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

John Beckwith : music for voice, 1949-1999

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

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

Program:

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

Canadian song recital

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

Program:

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

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).

Faculty of Music Deans 1970-1997

File consists of photographs from a group photo shoot of Faculty of Music Deans: John Beckwith (1970-1977); Gustav Ciamaga (acting Dean, 1977-1978, Dean 1978-1984); Carl Morey (1984-1990); Paul Pedersen (1990-1995); Robert Falck (acting Dean, 1995-1996); and David Beach (1996-).

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).
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