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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.