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Joseph Howe : part 1 : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the script, score, and parts for a production on CBC "Wednesday Night" on March 21, 1956. Cues include:

  • Cruel mother title (cue 1)
  • Printing press
  • Sable Island (cue 2)
  • Cue 3
  • Spanish lady waltz (cue 4)
  • Cue 5
  • Dark eyed sailor (cue 6)
  • Cues 7-20
  • Peter Rambelay (cue 21)
  • Cues 22-25
  • As I rode out (cue 26)
  • Cues 27-30
  • Nova Scotia E T (cue 31)

Joseph Howe : part 2 : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the script, score, and parts for a production on CBC "Wednesday Night" in 1956. Cues (1-50) include "Reflections" (cue 17) and "Comrades" (cue 50). File also includes an overview of the play by script writer Joseph Schull.

The age of innocence : incidental music for radio play for orchestra

File contains the script, score with musical cues nos. 1 to 22, and parts for the first in a series of 17 hour-long CBC radio programs that were broadcast weekly starting on November 11, 1964 called "Flanders' Fields." The file includes a blind embossed pamphlet that describes the 17 programs. Script by Joseph Schull; produced by J. Frank Willis. The play was broadcast on "CBC Sunday Night" on November 11 and 15, 1964.

Laurier part II : Follow my white plume : incidental music for orchestra

File includes the script, score with musical cues 1 to 45, and parts for a CBC broadcast on "Wednesday Night" on April 27, 1960. The radio play was produced by J. Frank Willis and featured Oscar Peterson, piano; Ray Brow, bass; and Edmund Thigpeng, percussion. Arrangements and compositions by Phil Nimmons.

Big Geordie : incidental music for radio play

File contains incidental music for orchestra for a CBC broadcast on Tuesday Night on February 27, 1966 and replayed in January 7, 1967. The file includes a re-write for cue no. 1 and additional brass parts for the January 1967 version. The script is by J. Frank Willis.

Other radio and television plays

Subseries consists of scripts, scores, and parts for incidental music by Phil Nimmons for various radio and television programs.

War's aftermath : incidental music for instrumental ensemble

File contains script by Ronald Hambleton for part one "The Crusades" and part two "The Interregnum" of a radio program on CBC Trans Canada Network Broadcast. Segments were broadcast on July 23, 1948 and July 30, 1948 respectively, with producer Robert Allen. The script includes Phil Nimmons' annotations for musical cues. File also includes excerpted pages from part 3 "Post French Revolution" (broadcast August 6, 1948) and part 4 "The Napoleonic Wars" (broadcast [August 13, 1948]).

Anthology : incidental music for instrumental ensemble

File contains scripts by Ronald Hambleton for CBC broadcasts on June 1, 7, 15, 22, 29; July 6, 13; August 10, 17, 1947. The producers were John Wickham Barnes and Doug Nixon. The scripts include Phil Nimmons' annotations for musical cues.

Salute to industry : incidental music for instrumental ensemble

File contains scripts with Phil Nimmons' annotated musical cues and scores for a radio series for CBC broadcast on the Dominion Network from CJOR Vancouver. Written and produced by Dick Diespecker; narrated by Ross Mortimer and Dave Hill. The program aired weekly from October 31, 1946 to March 2, 1947.

Affectionately, Jenny : incidental music for instrumental ensemble

File contains the scripts, scores, and parts for CBC broadcast from July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952. Script by Patricia Joudry. Produced by J. Frank Willis. File includes scripts for episodes 1-6, 9-13, 15-27, and 31, and scores and parts for episodes 1-31, opening and closing themes, fill, and P.S. theme.

Dominion of destiny : incidental music for orchestra

File includes the script, score, and cue parts for a dramatic and musical cavalcade of Canada's story presented as part of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada's Canada Day program at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, August 21-22, 1953. Script by Larry McCance. File also includes manuscript scores for arrangements of Red River Valley and Agnus Dei by Bizet, as well as includes calculations of amounts due for composition charges, rehearsal dates and times, a souvenir programme, and a copy of the published score for "Pomp and Circumstance".

Dr. Dogbody's leg : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the scripts, scores, and parts for CBC broadcasts on February 5, 12, 19, 26; March 4, 11, 18, 25; (9th installment not dated); April 22, 29, 1952. The script is by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, adapted by Joseph Schull. File includes scores and parts for the opening theme and episodes 1 thru 11.

Open house : music for jazz ensemble

File includes the outlines for the television show "Open House" and musical cues for the show, which aired on CBC television on April 12, 19, 26, 1956. File includes scores and parts for the following:

  • Blues
  • Standard
  • Open house
  • The man I love
  • Mountain Greenery
  • Manhattan
  • The three B's
  • One step forward
  • Cricket on the heart
  • Possum dust
  • All too soon
  • Reflections
  • Medley
  • What is this thing called love?
  • Body and soul
  • Blooming Bud
  • Blue moon
  • A pretty girl is like a melody.

Day in, day out : music for jazz ensemble

File contains the script, parts, and scores for a CBC broadcast of "Front and Centre" on July 10, 1963 (show number two) at the Kraft Music Hall with host Gordie Tapp. The script was written by Chris Beard. Musical numbers include:

  • Day in, day out : opening
  • Children go where I send you
  • Medley 1 : Let me sing and I'm happy
  • Medley 2 : The Spaniard that blighted my life
  • Medley 3 : Sonny boy
  • Medley 4, 5 : April Showers ; Rock-a-bye your baby
  • Closing titles

Rich Little show : music for jazz ensemble

File contains the scores and scripts for a CBC television broadcast on September 8, 1965. The file includes:

  • [Cue 1] : Opening theme
  • [Cue 2] : People
  • [Cue 3] : My three sons
  • [Cue 4] : Style
  • [Cue 6] : Sports playoff
  • [Cue 7] : Telephone playoff
  • [Cues 9 and 10] : Ferguson
  • [Cue 11] : Ferguson playoff
  • [Cue 13] : Burns
  • [Cue 14] : Guess who I saw
  • [Cue 15] : Medley of True love ; Well, did you evah? ; Who wants to be a millionaire?
  • [Cue 16] : Cartoon overture
  • [Cue 17] : Travel
  • [Cue 18] : Cartoon playoff
  • [Cue 19] : Thanks for the memory
  • [Cue 20] : Closing theme.

The blues : music for jazz ensemble

File includes a score and parts for an episode "The Blues Ain't," which aired on "Spectrum '65" on May 9 and 12, 1965. The episode was recorded April 1, 1965.

Bye and bye : music for jazz ensemble

File includes a score and parts for an episode "The Blues Ain't," which aired on "Spectrum '65" on May 9 and 12, 1965. The episode was recorded April 1, 1965.

Sussex Drive : incidental music for radio play for Phil Nimmons quartet

File contains incidental music for the Phil Nimmons Quartet for CBC radio play broadcast from April 5, 1979 to June 29, 1979, and from January 30, 1980 to March 27, 1980. The play includes the following musical numbers:

  • Sussex Drive theme
  • Seat ot power/nobility
  • Julie theme
  • Mac/Ham theme
  • Politic A
  • Politic B
  • Politic C
  • Cues : Suprise ; Transitions ; Bridges
  • Sussex Drive cues (second session, December 1979).

File also includes contracts from the American Federation of Musicians for recording sessions of "Sussex Drive"; "Voice tracks" by Bill Howell, a collection of 12 poems by various authors; and 14 scripts for the following instalments of the radio play:

  1. Program notes
  2. Track and field
  3. The Deepest far
  4. Centre ice
  5. Stud with everything wild
  6. The one and only
  7. Water over the dam
  8. Shining light
  9. National gallery
  10. Cat and mouse
  11. Topiary
  12. Roses by other names
  13. Various evils
  14. The whole damn environment
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