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John Beckwith

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

John Beckwith : [photographs]

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

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-).

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.

Onemanshow

File contains posters for Music Gallery event and a typescript of the description. File also contains: Udo's memorybank: "index of inputs," including sketches, and photocopy with playing-card pagination; Sixty cycles, including program, a copy of typed letter inviting contributions, and sketches for tape work in ink; Nonologue, including a copy of typed invitation letter, album of responses with address labels and stamps, and correspondence from Dick Higgins, Mary Ashley, Don Druick, Pauline Oliveros, Jackson Mac Low, John Beckwith, Robert Ashley, Graham Coughtry, and Nobuo Kubota; Tokens of thanks, including a draft and a copy of typescript. File also contains 4 albums of small black and white photos, mostly self-portraits, often double-exposed, and "36 questions with 36 responses" (typescript).

Serge Garant biography

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

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

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

Canada Council : articles, talks, and brief

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

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.

[Happy birthday Canadian Music Centre]

File consists of CJRT FM recordings of New Music Concerts' October 20, 1979 performance in Walter Hall, which was broadcast on November 12, 1979. The concert included a performances of:

  • Trio for flute, oboe, harpsichord / Oskar Morawetz
  • Anerca : excerpt / Serge Garant
  • Contrasts for six performers : excerpt / Norma Beecroft
  • Incandescence / Pierre Mercure
  • Trois caprices, no. 3 : excerpt / Jean Papineau-Couture
  • The Confession stone : excerpt / Robert Fleming
  • Trio con Alea : for violin, viola and cello : excerpt / Barbara Pentland
  • Calceolaria : excerpt / Udo Kasemets
  • Requiems for the party girl : excerpt / R. Murray Schafer
  • Canada dash, Canada dot. Bon ami / John Beckwith
  • Etude en forme de toccate for two percussionists / Francois Morel
  • Sui : for flute, percussion and metronomes / John Fodi
  • Improvisation : excerpts / Harry Somers
  • Illumination II : excerpt / Otto Joachim
  • Paulutation : for prepared tape / Hugh Le Caine
  • For : excerpt / Paul Pedersen
  • Canon for Stravinsky / Gustav Ciamaga
  • ...le sifflement des vents porteurs de l'amour : excerpt / Gilles Tremblay
  • Madrigal IV : excerpt / Bruce Mather
  • A Private collection : excerpt / John Weinzweig
  • Nautilus : excerpt / Barry Truax
  • La Tourangelle : excerpt / Istvan Anhalt
  • The Explainer : excerpt / Harry Freedman
  • Greeting music / Claude Vivier
  • Three pieces for clarinet and piano, no. 2 : excerpt / Francis Chan
  • Group portrait with piano for woodwind quintet : excerpt / Brian Cherney

[Three world premieres by Kaikhorsu Shapurji Sorabji, James Tenney, and Bruce Mather]

File consists of a recording from a concert on February 2, 1980 featuring:

  • Three Indigenous songs / James Tenney (Fiona Wilkinson, Jennifer Dowden, piccolo ; Robert Aitken, alto flute ; Russell Hartenberger, Robin Engelman, percussion ; Claude Engli, tenor tuba ; James Tenney, conductor)
  • Upper Canadian hymn preludes / John Beckwith (John Tuttle, organ)
  • Ausone / Bruce Mather (Robert Aitken, flute ; Victor Martin, Fujiko Imajishi, violins ; Rivka Erdesz, Douglas Perry, violas ; Peter Schenkman, Coenrad Bloemendal, cellos ; Peter McAllister, Donald Wilson, guitars ; Erica Goodman, Charlotte Moon, harps ; Bruce Mather, conductor)
  • Cinque sonnetti di Michelangelo / Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (Henry Ingram, tenor ; Fiona Wilkinson, flute ; Alexandra Pohran, oboe ; James Campbell, clarinet ; David Carroll, bassoon ; Victor Martin, Fujiko Imajishi, Joseph Pepper, David Zafer, violin ; Rivka Erdesz, Douglas Perry, viola ; Peter Schenkman, Coenraad Bloemendal, cello ; John Taylor, double bass ; Marc Widner, piano ; Robert Aitken, conductor)
  • Musique pour Champigny / Bruce Mather (Janet Smith, soprano ; Patricia Harton-McCord, mezzo soprano ; Janice Taylor, contralto ; James Campbell, clarinet ; George Stimpson, French horn ; Robin Engelman, percussion ; Erica Goodman, harp ; Marc Widner, piano ; Robert Aitken, conductor).

Letters and printouts of emails from correspondents

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.
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