File consists of a program for a workshop with Doreen Rao presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in co-operation with the Ontario Choral Federation and assistance from the Ontario Arts Council, the Institute for Canadian Music, and Boosey and Hawkes.
File consists of a program and recording of the University Symphony Chorus, High Park Girls' Choir, University of Toronto Concert Choir, Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, and University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, with the University Singers Women's Chorus, conducted by Ann Cooper Gay with Ruth Watson Henderson, piano, and the University Singers, conducted by Lee Willingham with Gordon Steinberg, piano. The concert took place in MacMillan Theatre.
Program:
De Sancta Maria. O viridissima virga / Hildegard of Bingen (University Singers Women's Chorus)
Five carols / Peter Maxwell Davies (University Singers Women's Chorus)
Dolcissima Maria / Gioacchino Rossini (University Singers Women's Chorus)
Songs of the nativity / Ruth Watson Henderson (University Singers Women's Chorus)
O quam gloriosum est regnum / Tomas Luis de Victoria (University Singers)
Ave Maria / Jacques Arcadelt (University Singers)
Exultate Deo / Alessandro Scarlatti (University Singers)
The glory of the Father / Egil Hovland (University Singers)
All poor men and humble / arr. Dr. Caradog Roberts (University Singers)
O little one / arr. J.S. Bach (University Singers)
Lirum, lirum / Thomas Morley (University Singers)
Noel nouvelet / arr. John Rutter (University Singers)
Une cantate de Noel / Arthur Honegger (University Symphony Chorus, High Park Girls' Choir, University of Toronto Concert Choir, Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, and University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra).
File consists of a program from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in a special presentation for the University of Toronto Alumni Association in the Torel Room. The choir was accompanied by Janko Kastelic and Ruth Watson Henderson, piano.
Program:
Sing joyfully / William Byrd
Solomon. Music, spread thy voice around / G.F. Handel
Orkney lullaby / Donna Gartman Schultz
Four love song waltzes / Johannes Brahms
Cantate pour une joie. A cry for joy / Pierre Mercure (Katerina Papadolios, soprano)
Candide. Make our garden grow / Leonard Bernstein (Lisa Lindo, soprano ; Alexandra Newland, mezzo-soprano ; James Pinhorn Tenor ; Marcos Pujol, bass).
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)
File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michel Tabachnik, with the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.
Progam:
Quebec May / Jean Coulthard
Concerto for violin and orchestra / William Walton
Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 / Ludwig van Beethoven
File consists of an announcement for and recording of a production of St. Nicolas by Benjamin Britten by Glyn Evans, tenor, the University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the Claude Watson School for the Arts elementary choir, conducted by Doreen Rao.
File contains a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre.
Performers: University Women's Chorus ; Ann Cooper Gay, conductor ; University Symphony Chorus and Orchestra ; Claude Watson School for the Arts Choir ; Glyn Evans, tenor ; Doreen Rao, conductor.
File consists of photographs from a two-day choral workshop "The Art of Contemporary Choral Music", directed by Doreen Rao with the Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitor in Music (1990) John Poole, conductor of the BBC Singers . Pictured are John Poole, Carl Morey, Doreen Rao, and Richard Bradshaw.
File consists of a program and recording from a two-day workshop presented in cooperation with Boddington Music Ltd. and the Ontario Choral Federation. Participants included John Poole, 1990 Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitor in Music; Doreen Rao; University of Toronto Concert Choir; Agincourt Collegiate Senior Choir, directed by Lee Willingham; Earl Haig Concert Choir, directed by Mary Legge; and composers-in-residence John Beckwith and John Burge.
Item is a photograph from the Imant Raminsh session of the Choral Festival at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Also pictured are Ann Cooper Gay and Doreen Rao.
File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, directed by Michel Tabachnik, and the University Symphony Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.
Program:
Egmont overture / Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano concerto no. 1, op. 10 in D-flat major / Sergei Prokofiev (Grace Kim, piano)
Symphony of psalms / Igor Stravinsky (University Symphony Chorus ; Carol Isaacs and Carolyn Maule, pianos)
Choral fantasy, op. 80 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Shelagh Tyreman, Lori Klassen, sopranos ; Pamela MacDonald, alsto ; Greg Carpenter, Mark McCallen, tenor ; Brett Polegato, baritone ; Jennifer Francis, piano ; University Symphony Chorus).
File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, Concert Choir, and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao in MacMillan Theatre. The concert featured a performance of Mass for the Prisoners of Conscience by John Burge with soloists Margaret Terry, mezzo soprano ; Russell Braun, baritone ; Arlene Penaranda, treble.
File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Knox College Chapel.
Program:
Sing joyfuslly! / William Byrd
Venite, populi, KV 260 (248a) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass for prisoners of conscience. Sanctus / John Burge
Mass for double chorus. Agnus Dei / Frank Martin
Magnificat. Gloria / Imant Ramnishs (Diana Kim, mezzo soprano ; Leslie Dala, piano)
Cantate pour une joie / Pierre Mercure (Katerina Papadolis, soprano)
L'enfant et sles sortileges. The bewitched child / Maurice Rave
Une cantate de noel. Laudate dominum / Arthur Honegger (Tim Birtch, trumpet ; Leslie Dala, organ)
If music be the food of love / Jean Belmont
The birds / Benjamin Britten
A choral symphony. The hour has come / Srul Irving Glick
Songs of a prospector / Steven Chatman (conducted by student conductors Mark Huang, Barbara Hannigan, Linda Traversy, Alexa Wing, and Dean Jobin-Bevans ; Leslie Dala, piano) (Toronto premiere).
File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the University Symphony Chorus and University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, with special guests, the Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, directed by Rosemary Thomson, in MacMillan Theatre.
Program:
God bless the master / arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dormi dormi / arr. Mary Goetze
The virgin Mary had a baby boy
Messiah / George Frideric Handel (Sharla Nafziger, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo-soprano ; Nils Brown, tenor ; Randall Jakobsh, bass).
File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Symphony Orchestra, guest conducted by Pierre Hetu, and the Symphony Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.
Program:
Regina coeli, K. 276/ W.A. Mozart (Maria Antonakos, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo-soprano ; Greg Carpenter, tenor ; Gary Brown, baritone ; Rosemary Thomson, conductor)
File consists of a recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus with members of the Hart House Orchestra and the University of Toronto Symphony, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.
File consists of a program from a performance by the University Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, of Brahms' A German Requiem, in MacMillan Theatre, with soloists Diana Kim, soprano and Russell Braun, baritone.
File consists of a program and recording of a lecture-demonstration by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, of selections from an all-Mozart concert that was performed at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Toronto and Lincoln Center, New York City, as part of the Mozart Bicentennial "the Masses-in-Concert" series.
File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, as part of the Mozart Bicentennial at the Lincoln Centre.
Program:
O Gottes Lamm, K. 343 / Mozart (Teresa Dunn, soprano)
Als aus Aegypten, K. 343 / Mozart (Stacey Fraser, soprano)
Kommet her, ihr frechen Sunder, K. 146 / Mozart (Barbara Hannigan, soprano)
Symphony no. 29 in A, K. 201
Mass in C, K. 317 / Mozart (Sharla Nafziger, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo soprano ; Mark McCallen, tenor ; Christopher Ryan, bass).
Item is a program from a performance by the University of Toronto Chamber singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, conducted by David Zafer, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre, for the Mozart Bicentennial.
File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Pierre Hetu and Gary Kulesha, in MacMillan Theatre.
File consists of a program and recording of a lecture-demonstration preview of "Gary Kulesha's Shaman Songs," with conductor Doreen Rao, in Walter Hall.
File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Victoria College Chapel and Walter Hall.
Program:
Nukapianquak / adapted by Stephen Hatfield
Two Innuit songs / Sid Robinovitch
Shaman songs / Gary Kulesha
Regina coeli, KV 267 / W.A. Mozart
The garden of Seraglio / Wilhelm Stenhammar
Who can sail? / arr. Agnestig
Domaredansen / arr. Hallberg
Shout the glad tidings / Ned Rorem
Gloria / Thomas Weelkes
Gloria / Imant Raminsh
Gloria / Dominick Argento
Songs of South Africa / Traditional (Kathy Armstrong, guest artist).
File consists of a program and a recording of a concert by the Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, with guest artist Robert Aitken, flute in Walter Hall.
Program:
Gloria / Dominick Argento Laudamus te / Antonio Vivaldi
Quoniam - Cum sancto spiritu / Imant Raminsh
The fluteplayer / John Burge (Canadian premiere)
Liebeslieder waltzes, op. 52 / Johannes Brahms
Spirit of the dead / Larysa Kuzmenko
At the river ; Simple gifts ; The promise of living / Aaron Copland
Precious Lord, take may hand / Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Arnold Seirei.
File consists of a program and a recording of a preview concert in Walter Hall of Gloria by Ruth Watson Henderson and Gloria by Imant Raminsh, with the Faculty of Music choirs, conducted by Doreen Rao.
File consists of a program and a recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University Symphony Chorus, University Women's Chorus (directed by Ann Cooper Gay), Chamber Singers, and members of the University of Toronto Orchestra, Brass Quintet, and Percussion, conducted by Doreen Rao.
Program:
Gloria / Ruth Watson Henderson (world premiere)
Songs of the great land / David Bowser (world premiere)
File consists of a recording of a Christmas holiday concert in MacMillan Theatre by the Symphony Chorus, Women's Chorus, and Brass Ensemble, conducted by Doreen Rao and James Pinhorn.
Item is a photograph taken following a concert by the MacMillan Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao with special guests Elmer Iseler, Derek Holman, and James Maben.
File consists of a program from a concert by the MacMillan Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, with guests Elmer Iseler, Derek Holman, and James Maben, in MacMillan Theatre.
File consists of a program and recording of a production of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, as performed by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dwight Bennett; the University Symphony Chorus and MacMillan Singers, directed by Doreen Rao; the University Women's Chorus and Lord Roberts Jr. Public School Chorus, directed by James Pinhorn; and the York Region Children's Chorus, directed by Cathy Cassel, with Gary Brown, baritone; Erika Tanner, soprano; Dean Kustra, countertenor. The performance took place in MacMillan Theatre.
File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, MacMillan Singers, Victoria Scholars, and Women's Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.
Program:
Love divine / John Burge (world premiere)
Alto rhapsody, op. 53 / Johannes Brahms (Patricia Kern, mezzo soprano)
Slavonic dances in C major, op. 72, no. 7 / Antonin Dvorak
Candide. Overture / Leonard Bernstein (Lorna MacDonald, soprano)
Glitter and be gay / Bernstein (Lorna MacDonald, soprano)
A Midsummer night's dream, op. 61 / Felix Mendelssohn (Teri Dunn, soprano ; Chirstine Stelmacovich, mezzo soprano).
File consists of a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the University of Toronto Symphony Chorus, the MacMillan Singers, and the University Women's Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao.
Program:
Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams
Night music / Derek Holman
A song to David / Holman
Abdelazer. Rondeau / Henry Purcell
The young person's guide to the orchestra, op. 34 : variations and a fugue on a theme of Purcell / Benjamin Britten
File consists of a program for an event that took place in MacMillan Theatre.
Performers: 1996 Ontario Youth Choir ; Elmer Iseler, conductor ; Canadian Children's Opera Chorus ; John Tuttle, director ; Lloyd Bradshaw Alumni Choir ; David Fallis, coordinator ; University of Toronto MacMillan Singers ; Doreen Rao, director ; University of Toronto Symphony Chorus ; Lori Dolloff, Steven Cottrell, directors.
Program:
Psalm 150 / Benjamin Britten
Welcome lovely Spring. O lovely dove ; Welcome sweet pleasure / James H. Laster
Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Turtle dove / Vaughan Williams
Frostiana. Choose something like a star / Randall Thompson
The Tender land. The Promise of living / Aaron Copland
Rise up my love ; I beheld her ; Behold the tabernacle / Healey Willan
Alleluia / Randall Thompson
The Pirates of Penzance. When the foeman bares his steel / Gilbert and Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore. Act II, Finale / Gilbert and Sullivan
O clap your hands / Vaughan Williams
Nobody knows the trouble / Spiritual, arr. John Barron
Ride the chariot / Spiritual, arr. W.H. Smith
Requiem. Requiem aeternam I ; In Remembrance ; Requiem aeternam II ; In paradisum / Eleanor Daley
Requiem. In paradisum / Gabriel Faure
A German requiem. In paradisum / Johannes Brahms
A Christmas cantata. Laudate Dominum / Arthur Honegger.
File consists of a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University of Toronto Choirs and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao and Dwight Bennett.
Program:
Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony Orchestra ; Dwight Bennett, conductor)
Rodelinda. Art thou troubled? / Georg Friedrich Handel
Cantique de Jean Racine / Gabriel Faure (North York Festival Singers ; University Women's Chorus ; James Pinhorn, cosnductor)
Prayer I ; Rosa Mystica ; God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Turtle dove / Ralph Vaughan Williams
O clap your hands / Vaughan Williams
O music / David Brunner (Meran Currie-Roberts, cello)
Alleluia / Randall Thompson
Keep your lamps / arr. Andre Thomas
Nobody knows / arr. John Barron (John Barron, conductor)
The storm is passing over / arr. Barbara Baker (Stephen Hatfield, piano)
Tenebrae factae sunt / Ramona Leungen
Fruhlingslied / Rainer Maria Rilke (Markus Howard, conductor)
Alleluia, Amen / Imant Raminsh *A Song to David. III Exaltabo Te / Derek Holman (Shannon Hill, mezzo soprano ; Nick Zekulin, baritone) [Canadian premiere]
Elibama ; Jabula Jesu / Stephen Hatfield (Kathy Armstrong , percussion) [Canadian premiere].
File consists of a program and recording of a lecture-demonstration on Leonard Bernstein's Mass by Doreen Rao with the University of Toronto Choirs in Walter Hall.