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Photographs

Series contains photographs of Greta Kraus (professional and candid), Elizabeth Benson Guy, Beulah Bondi, Jon and Hatti Vickers, Lois Marshall, and various other friends, musicians, and family members.

Correspondence

Series consists of personal and professional letters, postcards, and greeting cards sent to Greta Kraus. Series includes correspondence from Carl Bamberg, Emmy Heim, Jules Heim, Margarethe Kraus (mother), Sigrid Kraus, Dr. Walther Kraus (brother), Dr. Wilhelm Kraus (father), F. Langen, Lotte Leonard, Lois Marshall, Denise Restout, William Schabas, Irene Serkin, Rudolf Serkin, Teresa Stratas, Fritz Waldstein, Hans Weiss, Manfred Willfort, and Victor Zuckerkandl.

Remembering Greta Kraus : a memorial tribute

File consists of a program from a concert in memory of Greta Kraus in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Partita in B minor, BWV 831. Echo / Bach (Greta Kraus, harpsichord) [recorded 1964]
  • Introduction by Stephen Ralls
  • Speech by Martin Kraus
  • Trio, op. 114. Andantino grazioso / Brahms (Amici: Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet ; David Hetherington, cello ; Patricia Parr, piano)
  • Die Spinnerin / Wolf (Elizabeth Benson Guy, soprano ; Greta Kraus, piano) [from a 1957 broadcast]
  • Speech by John Dentay
  • Nicht uns, nein, nur dir allein / Telemann (Elizabeth Benson Guy, soprano ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Rowland Pack, cello ; Greta Kraus, harpsichord) [recorded 1950s]
  • Speech by Robert Aitken [1993 interview] and Dianne Aitken
  • The day hath now an ending / Isaac, harm. Bach (Douglas Bodle, organ)
  • Speech by Jane Coop and Cindy Townsend
  • Abschied / Wolf (Lois Marshall, soprano ; Greta KRaus, piano) [recorded 1981]
  • Speech by Rosemarie Landry
  • Indomeneo, K. 366 Placido e il mar / Mozart (Chorus from the Faculty of Music ; Marian Sjolander, soprano ; Che Anne Loewen, piano)
  • Die schone Mullerin, D. 795. Der Neugierige / Schubert (Russell Braun, baritone ; Carolyn Maule, piano)
  • Die Mainacht, op. 43, no. 2 / Brahms (Russell Braun, baritone ; Carolyn Maule, piano)
  • Speech by Bruce Ubukata
  • Sonata in C minor, D. 958. Allegro ; Adagio / Schubert (Murray Perahia, piano).

Operatic concert : highlights from the operatic repertoire in concert

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Opera Division, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • Orfeo ed Euridice. Scenes from Acts I-III / Gluck
  • Mose in Egitto. Act I / Rossini
  • Maometto II. Act II / Rossini
  • Guillaume Tell. Act I / Rossini
  • I Lombardi. Act II / Verdi
  • Lucia di Lammeroor. Act II / Donizetti
  • Sir John in love. Act III / Vaughan Williams
  • La rondine. Act II / Puccini
  • La clemenza di Tito. Act I / Mozart
  • Orlando. Act I / Handel
  • Faust. Act II / Gounod
  • Carmen. Act II / Bizet
  • Iolanta. Act I / Tchaikovsky
  • The nightingale / Tchaikovksy
  • La traviata. Act II / Verdi.

Operatic concert : highlights from the operatic repertoire in concert

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Opera Division, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • Orfeo ed Euridice. Scenes from Acts I-III / Gluck
  • Mose in Egitto. Act I / Rossini
  • Maometto II. Act II / Rossini
  • Guillaume Tell. Act I / Rossini
  • I Lombardi. Act II / Verdi
  • Lucia di Lammeroor. Act II / Donizetti
  • Sir John in love. Act III / Vaughan Williams
  • La rondine. Act II / Puccini
  • La clemenza di Tito. Act I / Mozart
  • Orlando. Act I / Handel
  • Faust. Act II / Gounod
  • Carmen. Act II / Bizet
  • Iolanta. Act I / Tchaikovsky
  • The nightingale / Tchaikovksy
  • La traviata. Act II / Verdi.

A concert of operatic ensembles

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Opera Division, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • I Lombardi alla prima corciata. Act III / Verdi
  • Don Pasquale. Act III / Donizetti
  • La clemenza di Tito. Act I / Mozart
  • Die Zauberflote. Act II / Mozart
  • Lakme. Act I / Delibes
  • Zar und Zimmermann. Act III / Lortzing
  • Maria Stuarda. Act III / Donizetti
  • Trial by jury. Sestet / Sullivan
  • Sir John in love. Interlude / Vaughan Williams
  • The Marriage of Figaro. Act III / Mozart
  • La Boheme. Act III / Puccini
  • Mose in Egitto. Act IV / Rossini
  • Merrie England. Act I / German.

A concert of operatic ensembles

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Opera Division, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • I Lombardi alla prima corciata. Act III / Verdi
  • Don Pasquale. Act III / Donizetti
  • La clemenza di Tito. Act I / Mozart
  • Die Zauberflote. Act II / Mozart
  • Lakme. Act I / Delibes
  • Zar und Zimmermann. Act III / Lortzing
  • Maria Stuarda. Act III / Donizetti
  • Trial by jury. Sestet / Sullivan
  • Sir John in love. Interlude / Vaughan Williams
  • The Marriage of Figaro. Act III / Mozart
  • La Boheme. Act III / Puccini
  • Mose in Egitto. Act IV / Rossini
  • Merrie England. Act I / German.

A concert of operatic ensembles

File consists of a program from a concert by the Opera Division in MacMillan Theatre, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • Tannhauser. Act II, Greeting of guests to the hall of song / Wagner
  • The Barber of Seville. Act II, Trio / Rossini
  • Cosi fan tutte. Scene from Act I / Mozart
  • La Cenerentola. Act I, Opening scene / Rossini
  • The elixir of love. Act I, Finale / Donizetti
  • Idomeneo. Act I, Chorus / Mozart
  • William Tell. Act IV, Scene 2 / Rossini
  • Beatrice and Benedict. Duet / Berlioz
  • The Gypsy Baron. Act II, Trio / J. Strauss
  • Sir John in love. Scene from Act I / Vaughan Williams
  • Iolanthe. Act I, Finale / Sullivan.

A concert of operatic ensembles

File consists of a program from a concert by the Opera Division in MacMillan Theatre, hosted by Lois Marshall.

Program:

  • Tannhauser. Act II, Greeting of guests to the hall of song / Wagner
  • The Barber of Seville. Act II, Trio / Rossini
  • Cosi fan tutte. Scene from Act I / Mozart
  • La Cenerentola. Act I, Opening scene / Rossini
  • The elixir of love. Act I, Finale / Donizetti
  • Idomeneo. Act I, Chorus / Mozart
  • William Tell. Act IV, Scene 2 / Rossini
  • Beatrice and Benedict. Duet / Berlioz
  • The Gypsy Baron. Act II, Trio / J. Strauss
  • Sir John in love. Scene from Act I / Vaughan Williams
  • Iolanthe. Act I, Finale / Sullivan.

MacMillan remembered : Carl Morey

File consists of a program and recording from a concert of "Reminiscences and Recollections" of Sir Ernest MacMillan in Walter Hall. Recollections by Victor Feldbrill, William Littler, Lois Marshall, Ezra Schabas, and Carl Morey.

A tribute to Healey Willan

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

Performers: Lois Marshall, mezzo-soprano ; Elmer Iseler Singers ; Elmer Iseler, conductor ; Robert Bick, flute ; Abe Gelber, clarinet ; James McKay, bassoon ; David Tanner, saxophone ; John Tickner, trumpet ; Stanley Clark, euphonium ; Marc Widner, piano ; David Campion, percussion ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Victor Feldbrill, conductor

Program:

  • I beheld her, beautiful as a dove / Healey Willan
  • Fair in face / Healey Willan
  • Rise up, my love, my fair one / Healey Willan
  • Behold the tabernacle of God / Healey Willan
  • Address / Godfrey Ridout
  • Award announcement of the Healey Willan Prize and announcement of the Healey Willan Centennial Scholarship
  • Unveiling of a bust of Willan / Mary Willan Mason, John C. McCombe Reynolds, A.R.B.S., sculptor
  • Limericks / Somers
  • Through darkness into light : a symphonic poem / Healey Willan

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.

Bach Aria group

File consists of a program from a concert presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The performance took place in the MacMillan Theatre, and the program featured a series of arias and duets from the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Performers: Samule Baron, flute ; Robert Bloom, oboe ; Norman Farrow, bass-baritone ; Bernard Greenhouse, cello ; Lorna Haywood, soprano ; Lois Marshall, alto ; Seth McCoy, tenor ; Charles Treger, violin ; Yehudi Wyner, piano ; William H. Scheide, director.

Lois Marshall, soprano

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

Performers: Lois Marshall, soprano ; Stuart Hamilton, piano

Program:

  • Dichterliebe : Op. 48 / Schumann
  • Chansons de Bilitis / Debussy.

Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan : A memorial tribute

File consists of a program from the memorial tribute to Sir Ernest MacMillan at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto.

Program:

  • Hymn. Praise to the Lord
  • Opening words and tribute by Albert Trueman
  • Cortege academique / MacMillan (Charles Peaker)
  • I sing of a maiden / MacMillan (Lois Marshall and string trio)
  • Tribute by Robertson Davies
  • Two sketches on French Canadian airs / MacMillan (string ensemble from the Toronto Symphony)
  • Tribute by Charles Peaker
  • St. Matthew Passion. Excerpts / Bach (Lois Marshall and ensemble)
  • Tribute by John Beckwith
  • Blanche comme la neige / MascMillan (Toronto Mendelssohn Choir ; Elmer Iseler, conductor)
  • Closing words by Albert Trueman
  • Hymn. The Strife is o'er / arr. MacMillan
  • Benediction by the Very Rev. Arthur Moore
  • Chorale prelude on Vulpuis / Willan (Charles Peaker).

Russian Nights : a tribute to Lois Marshall

File consists of a recording of the concert by Lorna MacDonald, soprano and Che Anne Loewen, piano.

Program:

  • Recitation
  • As when the dove (Acis and Galatea) /Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
  • O Sleep (Semele) / Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
  • O had I Jubal's Lyre (Joshua) / Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
  • Interview with Hugh Thompson on CBC Radio, May 9th, 1958
  • An die Leier / Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
  • An die Musik /Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
  • Die Forelle / Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
  • Seligkeit / Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
  • Narration - Stuart Hamilton - Memories of playing for Lois
  • La canzone di Doretta (La Rondine) / Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
  • Interview with Pat Patterson on CBC Radio – September 6, 1961
  • All mein gedanken / Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
  • Morgen / Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
  • Ständchen / Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
  • Zueignung / Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
  • Narration – Cindy Townsend - Lois’ Russian Experience as recorded in The Globe Magazine – January 1959
  • O can ye sew cushions (trad. Scottish), arr. Benjamin Britten
  • Sweet Polly Oliver (trad. English)
  • Aignish on the Machair (Agnes Mure MacKenzie), arr. K. MacLeod
  • A Fairy’s Love Song (J. Hogg), arr. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
  • To people who have gardens (A. M. MacKenzie), arr. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Marrying Mozart

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

Performers: Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Lois Marshall, soprano ; Daniel Beckwith, piano and organ ; Howard Dyck C.M., narrator ; Erika Raum, violin ; Peter Stoll, clarinet.

Program:

  • L'amero saro costante (Il Re pastore) K. 208 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Plaisir d'amour / Martini, Giovanni Battista, 1706-1784
  • Rose Cherie / Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813
  • O del mio dolce ardor /Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787
  • Piercing eyes / Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
  • Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K. 418 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Schon lacht der holde fruhling, k. 580 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Et incarnatus est K. 427 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Alleluia (exsultate Jubiate) K. 165 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • L'amero saro costante (Il Re pastore) K. 208 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Plaisir d'amour / Martini, Giovanni Battista, 1706-1784
  • Rose Cherie / Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813
  • O del mio dolce ardor / Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787
  • Piercing eyes / Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
  • Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K. 418 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Schon lacht der holde fruhling, k. 580 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Et incarnatus est K. 427 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Alleluia (exsultate Jubiate) K. 165 / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

C.G.E. television : Easter ; Wizard of Oz ; Italy ; Circus

File consists of a series of programs from C.G.E. Showtime, featuring the Leslie Bell Singers and Howard Cable's orchestra, Joy Sullivan, and Charles Jordan, with music arrangements by Leslie Bell and Howard Cable.

  1. Program with guest Lois Marshall [Italian program, April 11, 1954]:
    • That's amore
    • Poppa Piccolino
  2. Circus program
    • Spring in my heart
    • My lovely Celia
    • The greatest show on earth
    • Make believe (Charles Jordan)
    • Dance of the clowns / Rimsky-Korsakoff, arr. Cable (orchestra)
    • Don't go into the lions cage tonight, mother
    • The world is your balloon
    • The old calliope
    • Finale medley : medley of music of the big top (includes Daring young man on the flying trapeze ; There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight)
  3. Easter Sunday program
    • Let's take an old fashioned walk
    • Easter parade
    • While we're young (Charles Jordan, soloist)
    • I've never been in love (Joy Sullivan, soloist)
    • Springtime cometh
    • Easter story (with songs Let all the nations praise the Lord ; Let us break bread together ; Were you there? ; Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah)
  4. Wizard of Oz program [with Wally Koster, soloist]
    • Papa won't you dance with me
    • Serenade to Granada
    • Buffalo gals / arr. Cable (orchestra)
    • So in love from Kiss me Kate (Wally Koster, soloist)
    • Under the spreading chestnut tree
    • Dancing on the ceiling (Joy Sullivan, soloist)
    • Wizard of Oz : a musical fairy tale (with Somewhere o'er the rainbow ; Follow the yellow brick road ; If I only had a brain ; If I only had a heart ; If I were King of the forest ; We're off to see the wizard ; Ding dong the wicked witch is dead ; The merry land old land of Oz).

Personal correspondence

File includes letters from Raymond Dudley, Udo Kasemets, Bruce Mather, Colleen and James Reaney,R. Murray Schafer, Peter Williams, Robert Fleming, Stanley Bulley, Lee Hoiby, W. S. Morrison, Glenn Gould, Harry Somers, Jean Howson, Walter Herbert, Ray Pierce, John Sidgwick, John Hawkins, Lothar Klein, Jean Papineau-Couture, Timothy McGee, Dorothy Freed, Elizabeth Gallat-Morin, Chan Wing-Wah, Carl Morey, Otto Joachim, Peter Hatch, Albert Greer, Talivaldis Kenins, Andrew Benson, Gwendoline Harper, Myra Hess, Spencer H. Elliott, Ira Dilworth, H. C. Hamilton, Leo Smith, Alberto Guerrero, Richard Johnston, John Felice, Gustav Ciamaga, Barbara Pentland, Robert Aitken, Ezra Schabas, Sydney Hodkinson, John Weinzweig, Ruth Humphrey, Pierre Souvairan, Lois Marshall, Gabriel Charpentier, Nicholas Slonimsky, William Wright, Stephen Young, Robert Stevenson, Harry Hickman, Lubomyr Melnyk.

Piano recitals and student compositions

File contains programs, reviews, and photographs from performances during John Beckwith's early music education, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Programs include performances by Beckwith and premiere performances of Beckwith's early compositions. File also includes radio program scripts from CBC broadcasts of performances by John Beckwith, including "Sunday Morning Recital" (May 28, 1950).

Early CBC activities

File contains scripts and correspondence regarding John Beckwith's early appearances on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio, including a show "Lois Marshall : an appreciation" (ca. 1954) and an episode of "Views the Shows" (William Krehm, CJBC, November 29, [1954]) on a concert by the Canadian League of Composers.

Faculty ensemble reference files

Subseries consists of materials relating to ensembles and events at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, including newspaper clippings, award certificates, correspondence, reports, and itineraries. Subseries includes files on the jazz ensembles, University of Toronto Women's Chorus, and the MacMillan Singers, as well as a selection of events at the Faculty of Music: Sonneck Society for American Music Conference (April 18-22, 1990) hosted by the Faculty; Claude Frank, the Smith Visitor in Music (January 13-15, 1988); reception for Lois Marshall and Oskar Morawetz (September 30, 1987); Michael Tippett, Smith Visitor in Music (January 19-23, 1987); and Imant Raminsh, Choral Festival (March 30, 1990). Subseries also contains correspondence, memorandums, and posters relating to the University of Toronto Women's Association Award for a student in the diploma program of the Opera Division.

Reception for Oskar Morawetz and Lois Marshall

File consists of photographs taken during the reception at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in honour of Lois Marshall, recipient of the 1987 Award for Music presented by the Toronto Arts Awards Foundation and Oskar Morawetz, recipient of the 1987 Order of Ontario. Photographed are Lois Marshall, Oskar Morawetz, and Carl Morey.

Photographs of Canadian musicians

File contains photographs of Canadian musicians, many of which are signed, and most of which are not dated: John Beckwith (photo by Robert Lansdale); S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté with string quartet including Peggie Sampson and Victor Feldbrill; Herman Geiger-Torel; Irene Jessner; Greta Kraus; Sir Ernest MacMillan (2 photographs); Lois Marshall (2 photographs); Oskar Morawetz; Charles Peaker; Redferne Hollinshead; Hart House String Quartet (left to right, Milton Blackstone, Geza de Kresz, Boris Hambourg, Harry Adaskin; dedicated "To Lou Taube, 1937").