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Wind symphony and concert band

File consists of a recording of the concert by the Wind Symphony and Concert Band with Wallace Halladay, alto saxophone; Carlos Melendez, Merlin von Frankenberg, clarinets; Nicholas Francis, trombone; Daniel Swift, guest conductor.

Program:

  • Symphonic songs for band / Robert Russell Bennett
  • Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band / Karel Husa
  • Concerto for two clarinets / Franz Krommer
  • Tafelmusik / Godfrey Ridout
  • Symphonie funèbre / Hector Berlioz.

Wind symphony

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Wind Symphony ; Tony Gomes, conductor.

Program:

  • Gloriosa / Yasushido Ito
  • Fall Fair / Godfrey Ridout, arr. Stephen Bulla
  • Suite No. 2 for Band / Victoriano Valencia Rincón
  • J'ai été au bal / Donald Grantham
  • Golden Light / David Maslanka
  • Handel in the Strand / Percy Grainger.

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 Symphony Chorus

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, with the University Singers Mixed Chorus, conducted by Lee Willingham, and the University Women's Chorus, conducted by Ann Cooper Gay, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Psalm 100 / Henrich Schutz (University Singers)
  • Mass in G major / Franz Schubert (University Singers)
  • Salut printemps / Claude Debussy (University Women's Chorus)
  • Ave Maria / Godfrey Ridout (University Women's Chorus)
  • Psalm 121 / Imant Raminsh (University Women's Chorus)
  • Though Philomena lost her love / Thomas Morley (University Women's Chorus)
  • Fly not so fast / John Ward (University Women's Chorus)
  • Madrigal / Robert Fleming (University Women's Chorus)
  • Castles of sand / Veronika J. Krausas (University Women's Chorus)
  • Drink to me only / arr. Jonathan Willcocks (University Women's Chorus)
  • Black is the colour of my true love's hair / arr. Owen Goldsmith (University Women's Chorus)
  • The Shenandoah blues / David J. Elliott (University Women's Chorus)
  • Quebec May / Jean Coulthard (University Symphony Chorus).

University Singers

File consists of a recording and program from a concert by the University Singers, conducted by Michael Coghlan, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Magnificat / J. Pachelbel (Mario Portoraro, continuo organ ; Katalin Decsenyi, cello)
  • Pater noster / Igor Stravinsky
  • O sacrum convivium / Olivier Messiaen
  • Messe basse pour voix de femmes / Gabriel Faure (Mario Portoraro, organ)
  • Ceremony of carols / Benjamin Britten (Laurel Federbush, harp)
  • Four songs, op. 17 / Johannes Brahms (Laurel Federbush, harp ; Susan Mawdsley, Barbara McIntosh, horns)
  • Folk songs / Johannes Brahms
  • Dindirin / Anonymous
  • My heart is offerewd / O. Lassus
  • Stay time awhile thy flying / J. Dowland
  • Innsbruck / H. Isaac
  • Three Canadian folk songs / Derek Holman (Chia-Chien Chou, piano)
  • Ave regina caelorum / Dufay
  • Ave Maria / Ridout
  • A boy was born / Britten
  • When Christ was born of Mary free / Gardiner
  • To a baby / arr. Sargent
  • Make we joy now in this feast / Holman.

University singers

File consists of a program recording of a concert by the University Singers, conducted by Michael Coghlan, which took place in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Sem Shalom / Michelle Green
  • Ave Maria / Leo V. Marchildon
  • Sanctus / David Mack (David Mack, piano ; Leo Marchildon, piano)
  • God the Lord is my Shepherd / A. Dvorak (transcribed and translated by Oskar Morawetz)
  • Mass : Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei / Gustav Ciamaga
  • Wild Swans of Cool / Michael Coghlan
  • Requisscat / Walter Buczynski
  • When Age and Youth Unite / Godfrey Ridout (Mario Portararo, organ)

University of Toronto Wind Symphony

File consists of a program and recording of the performance, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: University of Toronto Wind Symphony ; Ezra Schabas, conductor.

Program:

  • Flourish of fond farewell / Godfrey Ridout
  • Good Friday spell / Richard Wagner, arr. Earl Slocum
  • Suite in A minor / Georg Philipp Telemann, arr. Alfred Reed
  • Morceau Symphonique for trombone and winds / Alexandre Guilmant, arr. Wesley Shepard (John Loretan, trombone)
  • Suite, Bachianas Brasileras / Heitor Villa-Lobos, arr. Alfred Reed
  • Symphony in B minor. Allegro / Alexander Borodin, arr. Erik Leidzen (Bryan Martin, conductor)
  • Little three penny music / Kurt Weill
  • Overture to Beatrice and Benedict / Hector Berlioz, arr. Franz Henning

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.

University of Toronto Symphonic Wind Ensemble

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Doug Manning, tuba ; University of Toronto Symphonic Wind Ensemble ; Stephen Chenette, conductor

Program:

  • Divertimento for band : op. 42 / Vincent Persichetti
  • Marcia and polacca, from "Notturno for Turkish band" : op. 34 / Louis Spohr
  • Overtüre für Harmoniemusik : op. 24 / Felix Mendelssohn
  • Emblems / Aaron Copland
  • Tafelmusik / Godfrey Ridout
  • Concertino for three brass / Floyd E. Werle (Tim Watson, trumpet ; Chris Buller, trombone ; Doug Manning, tuba)
  • March : mon ami / Captain Charles O'Neill
  • March : troupers all / Ed Chenette
  • March : the southerner / Russell Alexander
  • Aegean festival overture / Andreas Makris (transcr. Albert Bader)

University of Toronto Concert Band, American Bandmasters Association Convention

File consists of a recording of the convention, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • O Canada / Calixa Lavalee, arr. by Godfrey Ridout, band setting by Robert A. Rosevear
  • The star spangled banner / arr. Godfrey Ridout (Collinsville ; Franklin C. Kreider, conductor ; Faculty of Music Concert Choir and Repertory Chorus ; Lloyd Bradshaw, conductor)
  • Knight errant overture / Charles O'Neil (University of Florida ; Harold B. Bachman, conductor)
  • There shall a star from Jacob from "Christus" / Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Bruce Houseknecht (Eastman School of Music ; Bruce Houseknecht, conductor ; Faculty of Music Concert Choir and Repertory Chorus)
  • Things to come / Sir Arthur Bliss, arr. Dan Godfrey (University of California ; James Berdahl, conductor)
    • Ballet for children
    • Epilogue
  • Inflammatus from "Stabat Mater" / Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Meyerelles (University of Toronto ; Robert A. Rosevear, conductor ; Herbert C. Mueller, trumpet)
  • Round dance / John Weinzweig (University of North Carolina ; Major John F. Yesulaitis, conductor)
  • Celebration overture / Paul Creston (University of Montana ; Butler R. Eitel, conductor)
  • Phedre overture / Jules Massenet, arr. by Lucien Cailliet (Virginia State College ; F. Nathaniel Gatlin, conductor)
  • Lo, how a rose e'er blooming : chorale prelude / Johannes Brahms, arr. Earl A. Slocum (University of North Carolina ; Earl A. Slocum, conductor)
  • Suite of miniature dances / Louis Applebaum (University of Toronto ; Herbert C. Mueller, conductor)
    • Coranto
    • Gavotte
    • Promenade
    • Gigue
    • Sarabande
    • Menuet
    • Waltz
  • First concertino / Georges Guilhaud (Detroit Concert Band ; Dr. Leonard B. Smith, conductor ; Robert E. Lowry, clarinet)
  • Night is no longer Summer soft / Murray Adaskin (University of Toronto ; Robert A. Rosevear, conductor)
  • English suite / Clare Grundman (Ohio State University ; Donald E. McGinnis, conductor)
    • The oak and the ash
    • Barb'ra Allen
    • The girl I left behind me
    • The British grenadiers
  • A festive overture / Alfred Reed (University of Illinois ; Everett Kisinger, conductor)

University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Band, conducted by Robert A. Rosevear.

Program:

  • O Canada
  • Anacreon overture / Luigi Cherubini, transcribed by Harold Bachman and Clifford P. Lillya
  • Psalm 18 / Benedetto Marcello, arranged by Maurice C. Whitney
  • Prelude and fugue in D minor / Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed by R.L. Moehlmann
  • Partita Accademica / Godfrey Ridout (premiere)
    • Flourish of fond farewell
    • Scherzo
    • Nocturne
    • March
  • Polka and fugue from "Schwanda" / Jaromir Weinberger, transcribed by Glenn Cliffe Bainum
  • Sonatina / Caesar Giovannini, transcribed by Wayne Robinson
    • Allegro risoluto
    • Andante deliberato
    • Allegro scherzando
  • Dodecaphonic set / William P. Latham
    • Fast
    • Slow
    • Moderately fast
    • Slow waltz
    • Very slow, heavy - Very fast
  • Wycliffe variations / Paul W. Whear
  • Lads of Wamphray, march for wind and band / Percy Grainger

University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a recording of the concert, which took place in the MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: University of Toronto Concert Band ; Robert A. Rosevear, conductor ; Herbert C. Mueller, assistant conductor

Program:

  • Overture for band / Felix Mendelssohn
  • Contrapunctus for band / Paul W. Whear
  • Sinfonia no. 4 / Walter S. Hartley (Wind Ensemble)
    • Allegro deciso
    • Adagio
    • Vivace
    • Allegro molto
  • Partita accademica / Godfrey Ridout (world premiere)
    • Flourish of fond farewell
    • March
  • Procession of nobles from "Mlada" / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, transcribed by Erik Leidzen
  • Jubilee / Robert J. Hanson (Canadian premiere)
  • Variations on a Korean folk song / John Barnes Chance
  • Saturnalia / Frank Erickson
  • Coronation scene from "Boris Godunov" / Modest Mussorgsky, band transcription by Erik Leidzen (Alfred Spricenieks as Boris ; Faculty of Music Concert Choir and Repertory Chorus ; Lloyd Bradshaw, conductor)
  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallée, choral-orchestral setting by Godfrey Ridout, scored for band by Robert A. Rosevear.

[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

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.

Thursday scholarship concert : An evening of music from Canada's first half century

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

Performers: Godfrey Ridout, Master of Ceremonies ; John Beckwith, conductor

Program:

  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallée (Rosemarie Landry, soprano)
  • Sounds of the 19th century including compositions by: Stephen Codman, Wm. Horatio Clarke, Byron Tapley, E.H. Ridout, J.C. Brauneis and Herbert L. Clarke (Stephen Chenette, trumpet ; Susan Chennette, piano ; John Keane, tenor ; Elaine Keillor, piano ; Penny Speedie, soprano)
  • Whose brother am I? / arr. Leo Smith (John Keane, tenor ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Nadu-Na du du / arr. Ernest MacMillan (Penny Speedie, soprano ; Walter Buczynski, piano)
  • Six bergerettes du bas Canada / Ernest MacMillan (Rosemarie Landry, soprano ; Penny Speedie, soprano ; John Keane, tenor ; Elizabeth Volpe, harp ; Barbara Bolte, oboe ; Stephen Dann, viola ; Geneviève La Rue, cello ; John Beckwith, conductor)
  • Prelude : op. 59, no. 1 / W. O. Forsyth (Elaine Keillor, piano) ; First mazurka : op. 13, no. 1 / Clarence Lucas (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Valse impromptu : op. 44 / Clarence Lucas (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Tintamarre / J. Humphrey Anger (Elaine Keillor, piano)
  • Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano / Alexis Constant (Barbara McDougall, violin ; Jose Shapero, cello ; Walter Buczynski, piano)

The University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: The University of Toronto String Orchestra ; Victor Feldbrill, conductor ; Philip Headlam, conductor ; Lydia Wong, piano

Program:

  • Tragic overture : op. 81 / Johannes Brahms (Philip Headlam, conductor)
  • Piano concerto in A minor : op. 54 / Robert Schumann (Lydia Wong, piano)
  • Two etudes for string orchestra / Godfrey Ridout
  • La mer : three symphonic sketches / Claude Debussy

The University of Toronto Concert Choir and The University Singers

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

Performers: The University of Toronto Concert Choir ; Charles Heffernan, conductor ; The University Singers ; William Wright, conductor ; Members of the University Wind Ensemble

Program:

  • Regina coeli / Mozart (Mary Enid Haines, soprano ; Donna Hurst, alto ; Les Dobbin, tenor ; Russell Drago, bass)
  • The dream of the rood / Godfrey Ridout (Greg Cross, baritone ; The Concert Choir and Members of the University Wind Ensemble)
  • Exultate deo / Scarlatti
  • Cecilia, virgin / Peter Philips
  • Fine knacks for ladies / Dowland
  • Come again / Dowland
  • Five German folk-songs / Brahms
  • Françion vint l'autre jour / Pierre Bonnet
  • Ce moys de May / Clement Jannequin
  • Er ist's Mausfallensprüchlein / Hugo Distler
  • Father William / Irving Fine
  • Three nocturnes / Hildor Lundvik
  • Two spirituals : my God is a rock, set down servant / arr. Robert Shaw (Peter Wall, baritone ; Lorelyn Horsburgh, alto ; Gordon Wright, bass)

The University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Concert Band with Robert A. Rosevear, conductor and Ward K. Cole, assistant conductor. Performance was part of the All-Ontario Workshop of the Ontario Music Educators' Association (OMEA) at Mimico High School.

Program:

  • God Save the Queen / harmonization by Sir Ernest MacMillan, trans. Robert A. Rosevear
  • Sleepers wake; chorale prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Al. Chiaffarelli
  • Fantasia for band / Vittorio Giannini
  • Round dance / John Weinzweig, adapted by Howard Cable
  • Letters to a friend / Alexandre Gretchaninoff, arr. Walter Beeler
  • Symphony for band / Robert E. Jager
  • O Canada / Calixa Lavallee, arr. Godfrey Ridout, trans. Robert A. Rosevear.

The University of Toronto Concert Band

File consists of a recording and a program from the concert, which took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: The University of Toronto Concert Band ; Ronald Chandler, conductor

Program:

  • Stratford suite : four Shakesperean scenes for concert band / Howard Cable
  • Upper Canada suite. The rifle boys ; Land of the silver birch ; The cattle buyer ; Lost loves / Lawrence R. Bond
  • Overture for winds / Gary Kulesha
  • Partita accademica / Godfrey Ridout
  • Round dance / John Weinzweig, adapted for band by Howard Cable
  • Romantic variations / Morley Calvert

Scrapbook compiled by Amoï Bird

File consists of a scrapbook compiled by Amoï Bird (1902-1988), containing programs and newspaper clippings of reviews from various concerts, the vast majority of which took place in Toronto. Bird attended the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, before studying music with Dr. Albert Ham. The file includes a brief biographical note about Bird by Godfrey Ridout.

[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

Music of the twenties

File consists of a recording and program from the concert, which took place in a concert hall in the Edward Johnson Building.

Program:

  • Kammermusik no. 4, op. 36, no. 3 / Paul Hindemith (Elizabeth McBurney, Dodie Layton, piccolos ; Betty Harbord, Deborah Cox, clarinets ; John Thrower, bass clarinet ; Brenda Adams, Paul Buttemer, bassoons ; Ivor Rothwell, contra-bassoon ; Chris Morrison, trumpet ; John Langley, trombone ; Dale Fawcett, tuba ; Richard Skol, drums ; Setven Dann, Susan Harris, Janet Langley, Bert Wathen, violas ; Sheila Laughton, Genevieve LaRue, Martin Shaver, Marjory Dow, cellos ; Joel Quarrington, Cary Takagaki, Jack Winn, Jan Urke, double basses ; David Zafer, violin soloist ; Ezra Schabas, conductor)
  • Façade : an entertainment / William Walton (Gaynor Jones, reciter ; Godfrey Ridout, reciter ; Robert Aitken, flute ; Stanley McCartney, clarinet ; John Thrower, bass clarinet ; David Tanner, alto saxophone ; Stephen Chenette, trumpet ; Vladimir Orloff, cello ; John Wyre, percussion ; Ezra Schabas, conductor).

Memorial service for Glenn Gould

File consists of a recording and a program from the memorial service..

Performers: Robert Aitken ; Maureen Forrester ; Elmer Iseler Singers ; The Orford Quartet ; Godfrey Ridout ; Steven Staryk ; John Tuttle and a Brass Quintet.

[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

[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

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