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Godfrey Ridout

File consists of programs that included performances of pieces by Godfrey Ridout and copies of newspaper clippings about Ridout. Ridout (1918-1984) began teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1940, before joining the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto (1948-1982).

[Robert F. Reid? letter to Godfrey Ridout, October 7 1960]

Item written on Day, Wilson, Kelly, Martin and Campbell Barristers and Solicitors stationary. Item contains a copy of the last will and testament of Kathleen Parlow. Signature unclear.
From: Reid, Robert F.?
To: Ridout, Godfrey, 1918-1984
Subject: Parlow, Kathleen, 1890-1963
Genre: Business correspondence

[Godfrey Ridout letter to Victoria and Grey Trust Company with accompanying letters, September 2 1963]

  • OTUFM 02-2-1-Corr-0328
  • Item
  • September 2, 1963; April 1, 1960; June 13, 1960
  • Part of Kathleen Parlow fonds

Item is a letter from Godfrey Ridout to Victoria and Grey Trust Company dated September 2 1963. Attached to this letter is selected correspondence between Victoria and Grey Trust Company, Frame and Rodger, Kathleen Parlow, and David Rotenberg in regards to Kathleen Parlow's mortgage.
From: Ridout, Godfrey, 1918-1984
To: Victoria and Grey Trust Company
Subject: Parlow, Kathleen, 1890-1963
Genre: Business correspondence

[Harry Kazarian letter to Godfrey Ridout]

Undated. Item written on Kazarian Brothers Manufacturers of High Grade Chocolates and Hard Candy stationary.
From: Kazarian, Harry
To: Ridout, Godfrey, 1918-1984
Subject: Parlow, Kathleen, 1890-1963
Genre: Business correspondence

1947-04-21/Canada/Toronto/Ephemera

Brochure for Forest Hill Village Concert and Theatre Series. Concerts feature Elie Spivak, Frances James, Ettore Mazzoleni, Lubka Kolessa, Volkoff Canadian Ballet, and Parlow Quartet. Composers are Harry Somers, Godfrey Ridout, John Weinzweig. Comes with form for ordering season's tickets.

[Unidentified orchestras : n.d.]

Compilation of recordings of Canadian music:

  • Champagne dances vallagroises / Ridout
  • Barn dance / Weinzweig
  • Piano concerto / Weinzweig
  • Piece concertante / Jean Papineau concerto
  • Symphony in 10 parts, second movement / Barbara Pentland
  • Flute, percussion / Gilles Tremblay
  • Electronic studios (Dance music) / Ann Southam
  • Concerto grosso / Symonds
  • Moonlight / Schafer
  • Influence of country / Somers

Early works : songs and piano music

File contains the following:

  • 1950: Fugue no. 1, to Soulima Stravinsky
  • Fugue no. 2
  • Intermezzo, to Béla Böszörmènyi-Nagy
  • Mazurka
  • Prairie at evening (song)
  • Scherzo, to Joseph Roff
  • Sonata in C minor
  • Waltz, to Frances James
  • 1953: Nocturne, to Béla Böszörmènyi-Nagy
  • Nocturne, to Earle Moss
  • Prelude, to Andrew Bell
  • Prelude, to Joseph Roff
  • Scherzo, to Godfrey Ridout

Early works : songs and piano music

File contains the following:

  • Undated: Dance (words by Rupert Brooke)
  • Dream river (song)
  • 1945: Shining stars
  • Minuet
  • 1946: Marcia funebre / In memorium (Father C.W. James)
  • Dream waltz
  • Happy birthday
  • 1947: March
  • The evening tune
  • Rolling waves
  • In memorium (Ernest Dainty)
  • Fantasia
  • Lullaby
  • Serenade
  • March / Gay tune
  • Minuet
  • 1948: Impromptu, to Godfrey Ridout
  • The owl (words by Tennyson)
  • Romance in D flat, to Earle Moss
  • Wedding march, to Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Pheeney
  • 1949: Nocturne, to Murray Ross
  • Prelude

Toronto : modernism

File consists of Carl Morey's notes and drafts for the following articles and lectures: "Music and modernism: Toronto 1920-1950"; "The twentieth century in Toronto"; and "New sounds in old halls: Twentieth-century modernism and the conservative tradition in Toronto" (paper given at the University College Symposium Eight "Conservatism," January 21-25, 1986). File also includes correspondence with Godfrey [Ridout], editor of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) book of collected essays Célébration.

Concert at Ottawa : [National Arts Centre Orchestra with Anton Kuerti]

File consists of a recording of a concert by the National Arts Centre Orchestra with Boyd Neel, guest conductor and Anton Kuerti, piano. The program included:

  • Fugal concerto, op. 40, no. 2 / Gustav Holst
  • Two etudes for string orchestra / Godfrey Ridout
  • Introduction and allegro / Robert Schumann
  • Appassionato in G, op. 92 / Schumann
  • Ballad for piano and orchestra/ Gabriel Faure
  • Symphony no. 97 in C / Franz Joseph Haydn.

Universty of Toronto wind symphony

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Wind Symphony ; Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor

Program:

  • Fall fair / Godfrey Ridout
  • Dusk / Steven Bryant
  • English Dances. Processional ; Cheshire Rounds ; Jenny Pluck Pears ; How d'ye do, Sir? ; Pop Goes the Weasel ; Sir Roger de Coverly / Derek Healey
  • English Folk Song Suite. March, "Seventeen come Sunday" ; March, "My bonny boy" ; March, "Folk songs from Somerset" / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Culloden. Heilan Lochs, Bairns and Heather ; I Hae Grat for Tho' I Kend ; We Toomed Our Stoops for the Gaudy Sodgers / Julie Giroux.

University of Toronto symphony orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Adam Harris, baritone (2nd work) ; Chad Heltzel (1st work), Uri Mayer (2nd-4th works), conductors ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Program:

  • Fall Fair (1961) / Godfrey Ridout
  • Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911) / George Butterworth
  • Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes (1945) / Benjamin Britten
  • Symphony No. 2 in G Major "London" (1912-1913) / Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Faculty of Music alumni band and choir reunion : celebrating 70 years of music education

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: MacMillan Singers ; Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor ; Tracy Wong, assistant conductor ; Lara Dodds-Eden, collaborative pianist ; Wind Ensemble ; Alumni Choir and Band ; Dr. Gillian MacKay and Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, conductors.

Program:

  • Opening Remarks and Statement of Acknowledgement of Traditional Land (Dr. Ryan McClelland, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Music)
  • Elias. Siehe der Hüter / Felix Mendelssohn (Tracy Wong, conductor)
  • Elijah. Behold, God the Lord Passeth By / Felix Mendelssohn
  • Deutsches Requiem. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen / Johannes Brahms
  • Across the Vast, Eternal Sky / Ola Gjeilo
  • Ave verum corpus / Imant Raminsh
  • When Age and Youth Unite / Godfrey Ridout
  • Magnolia Star / Steve Danyew
  • Variations and Fugue on "The Wee Cooper of Fife" / Cedric Thorpe Davie
  • When the Sun Comes After Rain / Matthew Emery, arr. E.K.R. Hammell
  • Hannaford Overture / Scott Irvine
  • Closing Remarks (Dr. Lori-Anne Dolloff, Coordinator of Music Education)
  • Here's a Health to the Company / Lori-Anne Dolloff
  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallée, arr. David Marlatt.
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