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OTUFM 57-2-A-SC034-18
Item
July 5, 1907

Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929 (soprano). Robert der Teufel : Gnadenaire. Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 (composer). International Record Collector's Club (IRCC) ; Odeon: IRCC 3068. Matrix [xxB-3148]. Recorded in Berlin, Germany.

Robert Arnold Russel Papers

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00190C
Manuscript Collection
[185-]-2011 (predominately: 1949-2011)

Contains the personal and professional records of Robert Arnold Russel. This includes photographs of Russel and his family, information regarding his early life including schooling and university, family tree information and identifying documents such as baptism records and passports. The collection contains a comprehensive collection of Russel’s diaries and daytimers spanning from 1949 to his death in 2011. Professional records include materials pertaining to his early career in theatre, film and broadcasting, during the course of which he resided in France, England and Montreal. His career as an information professional and futurist is recorded extensively including his penning of the term “intersex” and “cybersex” in 1967 and his interview with Marshall McLuhan in 1962. As a futurist, Russel’s operated several businesses, most specifically, Orba Information (also called Orbafilm and Orba Inc), which operated between 1967 and 1993, which is archived in great detail, a smaller amount of information on later businesses including Rapid Response Inc., Toronto, Institute for Research on Public Policy and The Consortium for National Development is also available. Collection also contains drafts, proposals, budgets and storyboards surrounding Russel’s personal creative writing, including The Spark, a proposed television program and I am Haida, a proposed CD-ROM and game on Haida culture, and novels – The Petrans and Clone.

Contains series:
Series 1: Personal Papers
Series 2: Theatre
Series 3: Career as a futurist and information professional
Series 4: Writing
Series 5: Audio and video cassettes

Russel, Robert Arnold

Robert Allan Spencer fonds

UTA 1797
Fonds
1919-2020

This fonds documents the administrative and teaching duties of Robert Spencer, as a Professor Emeritus of History and a specialist in European history, especially German history in the 19th and 20th centuries. They also document his education and his participation in World War II; his extensive international research, publications and speaking engagements; as well as his involvement with professional associations and organizations such as the University of Toronto Contingent, Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), the International Studies Programme and the Graduate Centre for International Studies, Altantik-Brücke, and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). Included is personal correspondence, correspondence with international organizations, government departments, embassies and consulates; lecture notes; manuscripts and addresses.

Also present are two sous-fonds. The first is the personal papers of his wife, Ruth Margaret Church Spencer, who served with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRENS) during World War II as a base librarian and afterwards as the first professional librarian at Canada House in London. The second consists of files compiled by Ralph Flenley, a specialist in German history and sometime chair of the Department of History: examination questions, student mark books, and drafts of an unpublished manuscript on Anglo-German relations.

This fonds consists of five accessions, described below:

B1972-0020

Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, notes, reports, and press clippings documenting the activities of the Faculty of Arts and Science Constituency of the President's Council of the University of Toronto, as assembled by Professor Robert Spencer while a member of the Council. In addition to Council minutes and related material, there are files on several presidential advisory committees, the Advisory Planning Committee of the Board of Govemors, the University's Master Plan, the School of Hygiene, tenure (Haist Committee), and the Council's Sub-committee on Resource Planning. Included is material documenting the participation of professors C. B. Macpherson and J. B. Conacher.

B1977-0010

Correspondence, memoranda, briefs, minutes, posters, architectural plans, maps, and press clippings documenting Spencer's role in various University administrative bodies including: the Board of Governors Property Committee, 1969 – 1972; the Program Committee of the Commission on University Government, 1969 – 1970; the President's Council, 1969 – 1970; the Committee on Accommodations and Facilities, 1969 – 1972; the Capital Planning Committee, 1971; the Sigmund Samuel Renovation Committee, 1972; Faculty of Arts and Science Library Committee 1967 – 1969; and the Library Council Executive Committee 1965 – 1969. Also includes records of committees relating to stack access issue to the new Robarts Library (the Heyworth Committee), 1971 – 1972, and to the use of the Sigmund Samuel Library 1970 – 1972.

B2010-0024

Personal records of Robert Spencer, Professor Emeritus of History and a specialist in European history (19th and 20th centuries) that document his administrative and teaching duties at the University of Toronto, his research, writings and editing, and addresses, and his involvement with professional associations and organizations such as the COTC (University of Toronto), and the U of T International Studies Programmes, Atlantik-Bruecke, the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), the federal government, and German diplomatic bodies and institutions.

B2013-0005

Further personal records of Robert Spencer, Professor Emeritus of History, documenting his education, his military service during World War II; his post-war studies at Trinity College and the University of Oxford; his administrative duties at the University of Toronto, his editorial work, his extensive travels as a researcher and speaker, and his writings, including the history of U of T Contingent, Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) project.

Also present are two sous-fonds. The first is the personal papers of his wife, Ruth Margaret Church Spencer who served with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRENS) during World War II as a base librarian and afterwards as the first professional librarian at Canada House in London. Includes correspondence, certificates, addresses, diaries, photographs, reports, maps, interviews, and memorabilia. The second consists of files compiled by Ralph Flenley, Professor Emeritus of History: examination questions, student mark books, and drafts of an unpublished manuscript on Anglo-German relations.

The arrangement of this accession closely follows the file listing provided by Professor Spencer, with some rearrangement and addition of information, as deemed necessary.

B2022-0014

This accession includes a Challenge Coin created for Robert Spencer’s 100th birthday and a note that describes its iconography.

Spencer, Robert Allan

Robert Aitken, flute ; Melvin Berman, oboe ; Anton Kuerti, piano ; Victor Martin, violin

OTUFM 51-CS71/72-SAS-TP 1972 08
File
February 27, 1972

Part of Music Library collection of faculty events

File consists of the program and recording from the event.
Performers: Robert Aitken, flute ; Melvin Berman, oboe ; Victor Martin, violin ; Anton Kuerti, piano ; with orchestra.

Program:

Concerto for flute and strings in G major / J.J. Quantz
Concerto for violin, oboe, strings and continuo in D minor / Bach.

Robert Aitken : Lunenburg : Shadows VII : preliminary mix

OTUFM 67-C-002
File
[2017]

Part of Gallery 345 fonds

File consists of an unpublished recording of Robert Aitken's piece Lunenburg (Shadows VII) for voice, flute, and string quartet, composed in 2017.

Robert A. Rosevear (oral history) [audio]

UTA 5001-B1976-0013-1
Item
2 Jun. 1976

Part of Library Oral History Programme collection

Rob McDonald, guitar

OTUFM 51-CS13/14-TNS-DR 2014 49
File
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Part of Music Library collection of faculty events

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Rob MacDonald, guitar

Program:

Scratche (2013) / Jimmie LeBlanc
Percussion Studes I + II (1990) / Arthur Kampela
Foxfire eins <natriumpentothal> (1993) / Helmut Oehring
Dreaded Sea Voyage (2013) / Andrew Staniland.

Rob MacDonald, guitar

OTUFM 51-CS17/18-TNS-DR 2018 13
File
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Part of Music Library collection of faculty events

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Rob MacDonald, guitar

Program:

K.A.L.T. (2016) : für Solo-Gitarre/Stimme. I ; II ; III : Fragment 1 ; IV ; V ; VI : Fragment 2 ; VII ; VIII : Wellen lag Augen.

Rob MacDonald and Tracy Anne Smith : ChromaDuo : Hidden waters

OTUFM 67-C-116
File
[2010]

Part of Gallery 345 fonds

File consists of a recording by the ChromaDuo (Rob MacDonald and Tracy Anne Smith, guitars).

Tracks:

The raw and the cooked = Le cru et le cuit (11:32) ; Still the sea (10:27) / Stephen Goss
Adagio and fugue (10:14) ; Three pieces for two guitars (13:11) / Christopher William Pierce
Niterói (7:20) ; Comme des grands (10:40) / Roland Dyens.

Rob MacDonald and the Madawaska String Quartet : Images

OTUFM 67-C-117
File
2009

Part of Gallery 345 fonds

File consists of a recording by Rob MacDonald, guitar and the Madawaska String Quartet (Rebecca van der Post, Sarah Fraser Raff, violins ; Anna Redekop, viola ; Amber Ghent, cello) with Peter Pavlovsky, double bass.

Tracks: