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File consists of correspondence sent to Harvey Olnick from Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Anton Kuerti, Claude Bissell, R. Murray Schafer, Robert Aitken, and Harry Somers.

File is a dubbed recording from a performance at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Item is a recording of a performance by Robert Aitken, E. Rittich, P. Caston, and the Festival Singers of Canada, conducted by Elmer Iseler in the Edward Johnson Building for CBC broadcast

File is a dubbed recording for CBC.

Fonds consists of the administrative records of New Music Concerts (NMC), from its first concert in 1972 to 2020. Records consist of administrative and financial records, including correspondence with composers, performers, and concert venues, budgets, grant applications, and board meeting minutes; concert planning documents, including touring records; and promotion and publicity documents, including programs, brochures, posters, reviews, advertisements, and press releases. The fonds also includes select audio and video recordings of NMC concerts.

File contains the program, draft program notes, and correspondence for a concert presented by the League of Composers, International Society for Contemporary Music of music by Canadian composers, which featured the Lyric Arts Trio (Robert Aitken, Mary Morrison, Marion Ross) and other members of New Music Concerts of Toronto. The concert took place at Carnegie Hall in New York on January 20, 1975.

File contains records from the NMC concert on October 6, 1985.

File contains records from the NMC concert on March 8, 1986.

File contains correspondence, musicians list, and other materials from the NMC concert on November 6, 1988.

File contains correspondence relating to the NMC concert on April 12, 1975 with guest conductor Lukas Foss and guest composers Lukas Foss, Robert Aitken, and John Wyre. The concert took place in Walter Hall, University of Toronto.

File consists of correspondence, rehearsal schedules, and stage plots for a performance by Robert Aitken, flute and James Avery, piano on February 26, 2006. The concert featured premiere performances, including the Canadian premiere of Charles Wuorinen's Duo Sonata.

File consists of corrrespondence, notes, rehearsal schedules, technical requirements, and agreements relating to a concert on March 29, 2009 featuring Antonio Borges-Cunha's "Noturno para Chopin: in memoriam" with David Swan, piano and Antonio Borges-Cunha, accordion. File includes a program from Robert Aitken's premiere performance of Roger Reynolds' "Transfigured Wind IV" at Alice Tully Hall (February 10, 1985) and photographs of Robert Aitken and Roger Reynolds from September 24, 1983 and at the 1985 concert.

File contains correspondence and other records from the NMC concert on January 22, 1983.

Item is a recording, which is described on the box as the New Music Concerts ensemble with flute, guitar, and cello[sic?], possibly of a piece by Leo Brouwer. Based on the New Music Concerts programming, this is likely a recording of Per sonare a tre, which NMC programmed in their February 18, 1978 concert in Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University, with Robert Aitken, flute; Paul Armin, viola; and Leo Brouwer, guitar.

File consists of a recording of New Music Concerts' performance as part of World Music Week (1975):

• Mythos II : for flute and string quartet / Steven Gellman (Robert Aitken, flute ; Adele Armin, Otto Armin, violins ; Paul Armin, viola ; Richard Armin, cello)
• Piece for Bob / Norma Beecroft (Robert Aitken, flute)
• Toccata / Harry Freedman (Robert Aitken, flute ; Mary Morrison, soprano ; Marion Ross, piano)
• Lalita : for flute and chamber ensemble / Robert Aitken (Robert Aitken, flute ; New Music Concerts Ensemble).

File consists of excerpts from New Music Concerts' performances, created as an audition tape for NMC's 1976 Spring tour. Recordings include:

• Ancient voices of children / George Crumb [performed February 24, 1972 and March 30, 1974]
• Nouvelles aventures / Gyorgy Ligeti
• Correspondences : excerpt / Vinko Globokar [performed April 13, 1972]
• 3 Cavatinas / John Hawkins [performed May 4, 1972]
• Rasas III / Norma Beecroft [performed January 19, 1974]
• Lalita / Robert Aitken [performed April 12, 1975]
• Arcana : excerpt / R. Murray Schafer [performed January 19, 1974].

File consists of a recording of Lullabies for an angel by Peter Paul Koproski, performed by the Lyric Arts Trio (Mary Morrison, soprano ; Robert Aitken, alto flute ; Marion Ross, piano), from a concert featuring Milton Babbitt on December 15, 1979.

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).

File consists of recordings from a rehearsal performance by Valerie Tryon, piano, and a New Music Concerts' performance on February 23, 1980 featuring Harrison Birtwistle. The latter concert included:

• Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum / Harrison Birtwistle (Robert Aitken, flute ; Harry Sargous, oboe ; Barry Thomson, clarinet ; James McKay, bassoon ; George Stimpson, French horn ; Michael Malone, trumpet ; John Dowden, trombone ; Adele Armin, Fujiko Imajishi, violin ; Paul Armin, viola ; Peter Schenkman, cello ; Peter Madgett, double bass ; Marc Widner, electric piano ; Beverley Johnston, marimba ; Harrison Birtwistle, conductor)
• Why patterns? / Morton Feldman (Robert Aitken, flute ; Morton Feldman, piano ; Jan Williams, percussion)
• For O, for O, the hobbyhorse is forgot / Harrison Birtwistle (Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, John Wyre, Beverley Johnston, David Kent, John Brownell, percussion).

File consists of a recording by CBC Radio of New Music Concerts' performance on March 30, 1974 in Walter Hall, which was broadcast on May 6, 1974:

• Black angels (thirteen images from the dark land) : for electric string quartet / George Crumb (Orford String Quartet: Andrew Dawes, Kenneth Perkins, violin ; Terence Helmer, viola ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello)
• Voice of the whale = Vox Balaenae : for three masked players / George Crumb (Robert Aitken, flute ; Marcel St-Cyr, cello ; John Hawkins, piano)
• Lux Aeterna (for the children of the night) : for five masked musicians / George Crumb (Mary Morrison, soprano ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Shambhu Das, sitar ; Robin Engelman and John Wyre, percussion)
• Ancient voices of children / George Crumb (Mary Morrison, soprano ; Paul Pickles, boy soprano ; Melvin Berman, oboe ; William Kuinka, mandolin ; Erica Goodman, harp ; John Hawkins, electric piano ; Allen Beard, Robin Engelman, John Wyre, percussion).

File consists of a recording from New Music Concerts' performance on December 7, 1974, dubbed on October 5, 1976:

• Hommage / Alexander R. Tilley (Susan Prior, alto and bass recorders ; Betty McBurney, tenor recorder ; Nancicarole Monohan, double bass ; John Hawkins, harpsichord)
• Riffs / John Weinzweig (Robert Aitken, flute)
• Carillon / Bengt Hambraeus (Pierret Le Page, Bruce Mather, pianos)
• The last rag ; Graceful ghost / William Bolcom (Bruce Mather, piano)
• Frescoes / William Bolcom (Pierrette Le Page, piano and harpsichord ; Bruce Mather, piano and harmonium) [first 9 minutes only]

File consists of recordings from New Music Concerts performances:

• Zen, Yeats and Emily Dickinson / Harry Somers (Mary Morrison, soprano ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Marion Ross, piano ; Barbara Chilcott, actress ; John Horton, actor) [performed March 8, 1975 in Walter Hall]
• Frescoes / William Bolcom (Pierrette Le Page, piano and harpsichord ; Bruce Mather, piano and harmonium) [performed December 7, 1974]

File consists of recordings from New Music Concerts' performance at York University, featuring music by Quebec composers:

• Madrigal IV / Bruce Mather (Mary Morrison, soprano ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Marion Ross, piano)
• ...le sifflement des vents porteurs de l'amour / Gilles Tremblay (Robert Aitken, flute ; John Wyre, percussion)
• Trois poemes d'Alain Fournier / Michel Gonneville (Pauline Vaillencourt, soprano ; Robert Aitken, flute ; James Campbell, clarinet).

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

Performers: Robert Aitken, flute ; Bianca Chambul, bassoon ; Serouj Kradjian, piano ; Shannon Mercer, soprano ; Judy Loman, harp ; James VanDemark, double bass ; Weinzweig Centenary Chamber Strings with Victor Feldbrill, conductor ; The University of Guelph Chamber Choir ; Curated by Soundstreams Artistic Director, Lawrence Cherney.

Program:

• Refrains (1977) for Contrabass, Piano ; Trialogue (1971) for Soprano, Flute, Piano ; Interlude in an Artist's Life (1943) for String Orchestra ; Am Yisrael Chai (1952) for Choir ; Shoppin' Blues (1985) for Choir ; Prisoner of Conscience (1985) for Choir ; Divertimento No. 1 (1946) for Solo Flute, String Orchestra ; Divertimento No. 3 (1960) for Solo Bassoon, String Orchestra / Weinzweig
• Dear John / Andrew Staniland.