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Jazz

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of concerts by the Faculty of Music's jazz ensembles.

Opera division

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of performances by students in the University of Toronto Opera Division at the Faculty of Music.

Student recitals

Subseries consists of programs from student recitals at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1989-1990). Volume also includes programs from the Thursday Noon Series, masterclasses, and other special events, lectures, seminars, workshops, and programs held at the Faculty of Music.

Thursday at Noon series

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of concerts in the Thursday at Noon series. This series features faculty artists as well as guests, and usually feature small ensemble chamber music and vocal or instrumental recitals. These events take place in the Walter Hall at the Faculty of Music on Thursday afternoons.

Jazz

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of concerts by the Faculty of Music's jazz ensembles.

Thursday at Noon series

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of concerts in the Thursday at Noon series. This series features faculty artists as well as guests, and usually feature small ensemble chamber music and vocal or instrumental recitals. These events take place in the Walter Hall at the Faculty of Music on Thursday afternoons.

Thursday at Noon series

Subseries consists of programs and recordings of concerts in the Thursday at Noon series. This series features faculty artists as well as guests, and usually feature small ensemble chamber music and vocal or instrumental recitals. These events take place in the Walter Hall at the Faculty of Music on Thursday afternoons.

Student recitals

Subseries consists of programs from student recitals at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music during the 1971-1972 academic year. Volume also includes programs from select faculty ensemble and guest artist recitals.

Thursday series

Subseries consists of programs and recordings from the Thursday Evening Series. This series features faculty artists as well as guests, and usually feature small ensemble chamber music and vocal or instrumental recitals.

Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

Subseries contains recordings of Victor Feldbrill conducting the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO). Feldbrill wsa the music conductor and principal conductor of HPO from 1990 to 1996.

Financial ledgers

Subseries consists of the financial ledgers and bankers records for New Music Concerts, showing the organization's expenses and revenue from administrative and operational activities, as well as payments to composers, performers, and venues.

M.P.

Subseries consists of memorabilia from Graham's tenure as a member of Parliament, primarily correspondence and electoral campaign documents.

D.N.D.

Subseries consists primarily of personal and political correspondence to and from friends and colleagues during Graham's tenure as Minister of National Defence.

Agendas

Subseries consists of agendas used by Graham and his staff to organize his schedule during his time as a member of Parliament.

Issues

Subseries consists of files covering various issues, events, and undertakings which arose during Graham's tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Thursday series

Subseries consists of a program from a concert in the Thursday Afternoon Series. This series features faculty artists as well as guests, and usually feature small ensemble chamber music and vocal or instrumental recitals.

Music by other composers

Subseries consists of music written by other composers and either collected by Derek Holman for reference purposes, or sent to Holman as a gift and/or for his feedback.

Awards and certificates

Subseries consists of certificates and related documents, including photographs and correspondence, for awards and degrees that Derek Holman received, including his Doctor of Music from the University of London, honorary Doctor of Sacred Letters from the University of Trinity College, Order of Canada, and Canadian citizenship.

Board meeting minutes

Subseries consists of meeting minutes, agendas, and related correspondence, budgets, and reports from and to the Board of Directors for New Music Concerts, including reports from the artistic director Robert Aitken.

Files (Miscellaneous)

Subseries consists of several files on subjects and issues Graham encountered while Minister of National Defence. The files are arranged alphabetically and primarily contain memoranda and briefing and policy documents.

Board of directors

Subseries consists of meeting agendas, minutes, reports from various other committees, and correspondence from the Board of Directors of Esprit Orchestra (initially named Esprit Contemporain). Subseries also includes drafts of of the Directors' Manual and By-Laws.

Executive committee

Subseries consists of meeting agendas and minutes for the Executive Committee of Esprit Orchestra. The Executive Committee was made up of the President, Past President, 2 Vice Presidents, Corporate Secretary, and Treasurer. The Committee was established (along with committees for Finance, Management and Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Marketing and Communications, Volunteer, Program, Education, and Nominating) in an amendment to Esprit Orchestra's By-Laws (1989).

Other significant financial documents

Subseries consists of other significant financial documents and correspondence, including Esprit Orchestra's registration as a charitable organization, effective September 13, 1985, under the name "The Esprit Contemporain Orchestra/L'Orchestre Esprit Contemporain."

Repertoire of the Esprit Orchestra

Subseries consists of materials relating to the selection of repertoire for Esprit Orchestra, including correspondence, and music rental materials. Subseries also includes a summary list of Esprit repertoire (current to November 2006), which lists repertoire by composers and includes each composer's nationality, work's duration, number of repeat performance by Esprit, and whether the performance was a world premiere, Esprit commission, Canadian premiere, and/or North American premiere. Subseries also includes a list of repertoire performed by Esprit at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (1986-2009), listed by concert, and statistical information (1982-1998) regarding Esprit's repertoire.

Rehearsal schedules

Subseries consists of rehearsal schedules for Esprit Orchestra and guest artists, including rehearsal times and places, and dress rehearsals.

National and international tours

Subseries consists of records relating Esprit Orchestra's tours, including contracts with venues, correspondence, planning notes, promotional materials, reports to granting agencies, budgets, travel and concert schedules.

Tours include:
[2] Alex Pauk's participation in the International Music Festival, Moscow, May 15-24, 1984 (performance of his Legend of Raven).
[2] Potential tours to Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 1984) and Sofia, Bulagria (November 1984) following Alex Pauk's visit to Cuba
[3] Proposed tour in Europe (summer 1986) [unrealized]
[5] Performances with the Societe de Musique Contemporaine du Quebec for the Calgary Winter Olympics Art Festival and the subsequent tour (February 14-21, 1988; Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa)
[8] Exploring a potential Pacific Rim tour (1990-1991) [unrealized]
[9] Exploring a potential tour of Asia (1991-1992) [unrealized]
[11] Paris concert (October 1993)
[11] Kansas City, Mid-America Arts Alliance (MAAA) (March 1994)
[14] Winnipeg New Music Festival (October 1996)
[15] Western Canada tour (June 15-2, 1998)
[17] European tour (September 1999)
[19] Alex Pauk and Alexina Louie in delegation for the Governor General's State Visit to Germany (October 2001)
[22] Montreal Nouvelles Musiques (MNM) 2005 International Festival (March 2005)
[26] European Tour (April 2009)
[30] Montreal tour [Esprit Orchestra's bene fête tour, May 23, 2013]
[32] China tour (May-June, 2015).

Composer commission records

Subseries consists of records, including correspondence with composers and reports to and correspondence with granting agencies, for works commissioned by Esprit Orchestra. Esprit received commissioning support from Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Laidlaw Foundation.

Commissioned composers include: David Adamcyk, Robert Aitken, Istvan Anhalt, Sergio Barroso, Bob Becker, John Beckwith, Norma Beecroft, Allan Gordon Bell, Roger Bergs, Rose Bolton, Walter Boudreau, Brian Cherney, Brian Current, Omar Daniel, Paul Dolden, Tomas Dusatko, José Evangelista, Harry Freedman, Paul Frehner, Scott Good, Denis Gougeon, Chris Paul Harman, Vincent Ho, Peter Paul Koprowski, Harry Kucharzyk, Larry Lake, Michael Longtin, Alexina Louie, Raymond Luedeke, Andrew P. MacDonald, Bruce Mather, Maxine McKinley, Phil Nimmons, John Oswald, Alex Pauk, Yannick Plamondon, John Rea, André Ristic, James Rolfe, Erik Ross, Jeffrey Ryan, R. Murray Schafer, Ana Sokolovic, Harry Somers, Barry Truax, Owen Underhill, and John Wyre.

Creative sparks

Subseries consists of records, including correspondence, notes, rough stage plans, and rehearsal schedules, for the Esprit Orchestra educational programme "Creative Sparks". Creative Sparks provides hands-on performance and composition opportunities for students, who are mentored by composers. Their compositions are showcased in Esprit's New Wave Composers Festival each year.

Other educational events and activities

Subseries consists of records, including correspondence, notes, rough stage plans, and rehearsal schedules, for other educational events and activities led by Esprit Orchestra. Includes records pertaining to the Community Arts and Education Partnership, the New Music Coalition, and the New Music Collaborative.

Other recordings

Subseries consists of correspondence, contracts, notes, budgets, and other materials relating to other audio and audio-visual recordings and projects involving Esprit Orchestra:

  • CMC Centrediscs project (1984)
  • draft liner notes for Harry Somers' Chura-Churum [1985]
  • proposal for a CBC television production of Cortege by R. Murray Schafer (1988)
  • Alex Pauk's appearance on CJRT radio with Tom Fulton (November 11, 1993)
  • The Adjuster : music for the films of Atom Egoyan (rerecorded film orchestrations by Mychael Danna, recorded by Esprit Orchestra) (Varèse, 1996)
  • Ecstasy : a multimedia/video event based on Esprit's opening concert, October 2000
  • CD proposal from composer José Evangelista, which would include performances of his Cancionero and O Bali by Esprit Orchestra (August 2002).

Program notes for Colgrass' compositions

Subseries consists of program notes for Michael Colgrass' compositions, written by Colgrass, and script notes that Colgrass used to introduce compositions from the stage. Subseries includes program and/or script notes for the following compositions: Arctic Dreams, As Quiet As, Auras, Concertino for timpani, Déjà vu, Delta, A Flute in the Kingdom of Drums and Bells, Folklines, Hammer and bow, Memento, New People, Night of the Raccoon, The Schubert Birds, Snow Walker, Strangers, Te Tuma Te Papa, Urban Requiem, Variations for Four Drums and Viola, Wild Riot of the Shaman's Dreams, and Winds of Nagual.

Broadsides and posters

Subseries consists of 121 broadsides and posters that were designed, hand-set, and hand-printed by Dreadnaught Press. In addition to producing chapbooks (see Subseries 1), the Dreadnaught broadsides were a core part of the Press' publishing focus and demonstrate a range of letterpress techniques. The collective produced these materials for poems, images, ideas, and passages that personally resonated with its members. These prints are distinguished by the notation 'Dreadnaught Broadside', which appears somewhere on the page.

Over 90 different poems, passages, and quotations are featured in the subseries, and the majority of prints are single copies. The subseries also includes the 52 Pickup 76 poetry collection, which brought together 52 poems from 52 emerging poets (see File 1).

Dreadnaught Press

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