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Cottage for sale : incidental music for orchestra

File contains the scripts, score, and parts for a CBC broadcast on August 10, 1955. The script is by Len Peterson. The file also includes a letter from the Toronto Musicians Association regarding complaints.

Folio

Subseries consists of scripts, scores, and parts for plays that aired on the CBC television program "Folio." "Folio" ran from 1955 to 1959, succeeding "Scope" and preceding "Festival" as CBC's flagship program from television dramas and musical comedies.

Take to the woods : music for orchestra and chorus

File contains the script, scores, and parts for a CBC television broadcast on October 16, 1955. Script by Eric Nicol. Score includes:

  • Opening: Take to the Woods
  • Bushed
  • Are You the One?
  • When do I Start to Learn Love?
  • [Cue] 6
  • Promotion
  • Why can't I fall in Love?
  • The Better Things (That Pair)
  • Act 3
  • Who's Kidding Who?
  • Money is Nice
  • Are You the One? (Reprise)
  • Finale and Titles.

The Barris Beat

Subseries consists of scores, parts, and scripts for episodes of the Canadian variety television series "The Barris Beat," which aired on CBC TV. Musical arrangements for this show were by Phil Nimmons and Nimmons 'N' Nine served as the house band.

The logger and the lady : incidental music for orchestra and voice

File contains the script, scores, and parts for a television play for CBC "Folio" on Sunday, February 5, 1956. Script is by Ernest G. Perrault; directed by Norman Campbell. Music and additional lyrics by Frank Radcliffe and Sydney Wayne. Also titled "The Lady and the Logger." Scores include:

  • Opening (cue 1)
  • The welcome song (cue 2)
  • Cue 3
  • Speech song (cue 4)
  • Cue 5
  • The sorriest sight (cue 6)
  • Cue 7
  • Smart (cue 8)
  • Babes in the woods (cue 9)
  • Funny feeling (cue 10)
  • Mornin' teacher (cue 11)
  • Cue 12
  • Ay ban tank your're in love (cue 13)
  • Funny feeling (reprise) (cue 14)
  • Jamboree (cue 15)
  • Finale (cue 16)
  • Titles (cue 17).

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.

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)

Anne of Green Gables : incidental music for orchestra and chorus

File contains scripts, scores, and parts for a musical dramatization of the book by Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery, adapted by Donald Harron and James Costigan, with music by Norman Campbell. The drama was for CBC television broadcast on "Folio" on March 4, 1956 and rebroadcast on November 18, 1958. File includes the cast list and rehearsal schedule, and the scores and parts for the following musical numbers:

  • Humble Pie
  • Humble Pie Dance
  • Ice Cream Ballet
  • 9 and 16 Entract
  • Dance
  • Opening
  • Finale
  • Where is Matthew Going?
  • Gee, I'm Glad
  • We Clearly Requested a Boy
  • The Facts
  • Bridge 12
  • Ballet Tag
  • Ice Cream
  • Back to School no. 1
  • Back to School no. 2
  • Bridge 21
  • Wondrin'
  • Bridge 23
  • Local Pride
  • If it Hadn't Been for Me
  • Titles.

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.

This very special day : music for jazz ensemble

File contains the score and parts for a CBC broadcast on on "The Barris Beat" on October 20, 1956. File also includes the script for this episode and a page entitled "Extra lyrics for Gloria [Lambert]."

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