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Gallery 345 fonds

  • OTUFM 67
  • Fonds
  • 2005-2019, predominant 2008-2019

Fonds consists of recordings of performances and related ephemera, including programs and posters, from events at Gallery 345 in Toronto, from its opening in 2005 to its closure in 2019.

Epstein, Edward

Opera Exchange fonds

  • OTUFM 86
  • Fonds
  • 2001-2015, 2001-2009 predominant

Fonds consists of programs, speaking notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating the Opera Exchange, an initiative co-organized by University of Toronto professors Caryl Clark and Linda Hutcheon, in conjunction with the Munk Centre for International studies (2001-2002) and the Canadian Opera Company (COC) (2003-2015).

The Opera Exchange held three symposia per year, with the aim to create a collaborative environment where students, faculty, and members of the public could discuss opera from various perspectives and disciplines, including musicology, literature, drama, history, political science, and gender studies. The program was initially named "The Humanities Initiative" and early symposia focused on works performed by the University of Toronto Opera School, Opera Atelier, and the COC.

Symposia:

  • 2002 Humanities Initiative symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto)
    • Transformations of Salome (January 19, 2002)
    • Iron Road: intersecting dreams and dialogues (March 1, 2002)
    • The many faces of Boris Godunov (April 6, 2002) [in collaboration with the Centre for Russian and East European studies)
  • 2002-2003 Humanities Initiative symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto)
    • Oedipus Rex: plagues and politics (October 5, 2002)
    • Apprenticing with a sorceress: Handel's Alcina (November 15, 2002)
    • Taptoo! (March 8, 2003)
  • 2003-2004 Opera Exchange symposia (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
    • Peter Grimes: the loner vs. the town (October 4, 2003)
    • Falstaff: the maestro takes on the bard (January 31, 2004)
    • Die Walküre: why Wagner? (April 17, 2004)
  • 2004-2005 Opera Exchange symposia (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • The Handmaid's tale: no balm in this Gilead (October 2, 2004)
    • Siegfried: the forging of a hero (January 29, 2005)
    • Tancredi: Sicilians, Saracens, singers (April 2, 2005) [in conjunction with an American Musicological Society chapter meeting at the University of Toronto]
  • 2005-2006 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music and Bader Theatre)
    • Rodelinda and Carmen: girls night out! (October 22, 2005 at Walter Hall)
    • Götterdämmerung: return of the ring (February 4, 2006 at Bader Theatre)
    • Wozzeck : opera for a modern age (April 1, 2006 at Bader Theatre)
  • 2006 Opera Exchange symposia on Wagner's Ring Cycle (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • Cycle I: putting the ring on stage (September 16, 2006)
    • Cycle II: putting the ring in context (September 13, 2006)
    • Cycle III: putting the ring on record (September 30, 2006 at Hilton Hotel)
  • 2007-2008 Opera Exchange symposia (Bader Theatre, Victoria University)
    • Who (what) is the real Don Carlos? on Verdi's Don Carlos (October 27, 2007)
    • To be or not to be: from the house of the (living dead) on Janacek's From the House of the Dead (February 9, 2008)
    • Letting down your hair with Pelléas and Mélisande (May 20, 2008)
  • 2008-2009 Telling Stories through Opera, The Opera Exchange, three symposia in conjunction with the Jackman Humanities Institute
    • Monster opera: Prokofiev's War and Peace (October 18, 2008)
    • Love and liberation: Beethoven's Fidelio (January 31, 2009)
    • "Antique fables and fairy toys": Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (May 9, 2009)
  • 2009-2010 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Stravinsky/Lepage: a magical meeting of minds (October 17, 2009)
    • Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello: staging jealousy (February 6, 2010)
    • Staging Der fliegende Holländer for our times? (May 1, 2010)
  • 2010-2011 "Voice and Spectacle," The Opera Exchange, three symposia presented by the Jackman Humanities Institute, Faculty of Music, and the Canadian Opera Company
    • Death in Venice gets a new life in Toronto (October 16, 2010)
    • Nixon in China: giving voice to our own history (February 13, 2011)
    • Ariadne auf Naxos from A-Z (May 14, 2011)
  • 2011-2012 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • A Greek family reunion: Gluck's Iphegenie en Tauride (October 1, 2011)
    • Long distant loving: Saariaho's L'amour loin/Love from afar (February 4, 2012)
    • Wilde time: Zemlinsky's A Florentine tragedy (April 22, 2012)
  • 2012-2013 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Let's lighten up! : operetta in context, on Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (October 13, 2012)
    • Wagner and adaptation: transformations and excess, on Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (January 31-Febrary 2, 2013)
    • Singing from the scaffold, on Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites (May 11, 2013
  • 2014 Opera Exchange symposium (Munk School of Global Affairs)
    • Coming home: Handel's Hercules (April 4, 2014)
  • 2014-2015 Opera Exchange symposia (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto)
    • Staging operatic comedy: Verdi's Falstaff in context (September 27, 2014)
    • Directors take the stage: debating Regietheater (January 17, 2015).

Clark, Caryl Leslie

Esprit Orchestra fonds

  • OTUFM 53
  • Fonds
  • 1983-2021

Fonds consists of the administrative records of Esprit Orchestra, from its foundation in 1983 as Esprit Contemporain, to 2021.

Records include meeting minutes and correspondence from the board of directors and associated committees; financial records, including budgets, year-end financial statements, and reports to granting agencies; performance records, including planning files from subscription and non-subscription concerts, national and international tours, and composer commissions; materials relating to the orchestra's education and outreach activities; promotional materials, including posters, photographs, programs, and reviews; records relating to recording projects, including CDs, music for films, and radio broadcasts; awards received by the orchestra and its musical director Alex Pauk; and correspondence with musicians, composers, and other associations.

Esprit Orchestra

Aldeburgh Connection fonds

  • OTUFM 43
  • Fonds
  • 1979-2018

Fonds consists of the administrative, financial, and performance records of the Aldeburgh Connection. Most of the fonds consists of materials created for, and as a result of, each concert produced by the Aldeburgh Connection, including promotional materials, scripts, annotated scores, correspondence, research notes, and reviews. The fonds also contains textual materials from the production of the Aldeburgh Connection’s recording projects, promotional events, board minutes, complete financial records, and correspondence regarding their fundraising efforts.

Aldeburgh Connection

Gary Williamson fonds

  • OTUFM 80
  • Fonds
  • 1976-2016

Fonds consists of manuscript lead sheets, parts, and scores created and used by Gary Williamson. It consists of original compositions by Williamson and his arrangements of jazz standards. Most of the arrangements are not dated.

Williamson, Gary

Toronto Wagner Society fonds

  • OTUFM 77
  • Fonds
  • 1975-2020

Fonds consists of newsletters and ephemera produced by the Toronto Wagner Society.

Toronto Wagner Society

Rob McConnell fonds

  • OTUFM 18
  • Fonds
  • 1974-2003

Fonds includes manuscript scores of compositions and arrangements written for Boss Brass recordings. All arrangements are by Rob McConnell. The fonds also includes some original compositions by McConnell. Scores are assigned dates based on the date of recording by Boss Brass, and later by the Rob McConnell Tentet.

McConnell, Rob

New Music Concerts fonds

  • OTUFM 19
  • Fonds
  • 1971-2020

Fonds consists of the administrative records of New Music Concerts (NMC), from its first concert in 1972 to 2020. Records consist of administrative and financial records, including correspondence with composers, performers, and concert venues, budgets, grant applications, and board meeting minutes; concert planning documents, including touring records; and promotion and publicity documents, including programs, brochures, posters, reviews, advertisements, and press releases. The fonds also includes select audio and video recordings of NMC concerts.

New Music Concerts

Doug Riley fonds

  • OTUFM 40
  • Fonds
  • 1966-2007

Fonds consists of records created, accumulated, and used by Doug Riley between the years 1966-2007. The majority of the records in this fonds is sheet music resulting from collaborations with other musicians, arrangements by Doug Riley, or original compositions. Although the fonds consists largely of jazz music, there is a wide variety of genres including classical music represented. Audio recordings could prove useful in the understanding of Doug Riley's performances or musical techniques.

Throughout his career Doug Riley collaborated in a variety of projects including composing music for theatre, television, awards shows, and social events. The fonds includes evidence of these projects including scripts, itineraries, storyboards, etc.

Also included in the fonds is correspondence between Doug Riley and other prominent figures in the music industry. Many set lists included in the fonds could provide insights into the performances of Doug Riley.

Riley, Doug

Claude Kenneson fonds

  • OTUFM 33
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2006

Fonds includes computer-generated scores and parts for his original works, as well as his many arrangements for violoncello ensembles of works by other composers, written 1965-2006. Many of the arrangements were done for The Yale Cellos; Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos; Shauna Rolston; The Banff Violas; Lee Armstrong and the Birmingham Cello Group. Many contain program notes.

Kenneson, Claude

Myron Schaeffer fonds

  • OTUFM 55
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1965

Fonds consists of Myron Schaeffer's notes and drafts for lectures, articles, and an unpublished book on electronic music. The fonds also contains condolence correspondence following his death, his obituary, and scores and sketches for a couple of his electronic compositions.

Schaeffer, Myron

Vic Centro fonds

  • OTUFM 85
  • Fonds
  • 1957-2004

Fonds consists of arrangements by Vic Centro, and related ephemera, including photographs, correspondence, publicity materials, and recordings. Much of the material relates to Centro's time performing and recording in Toronto with Phil Nimmons and CBC radio.

Centro, Vic

Michael Colgrass fonds

  • OTUFM 64
  • Fonds
  • 1949-2019

Fonds consists of the professional and personal records of composer Michael Colgrass. The collection includes manuscripts of his compositions; administrative and financial documents relating to commissions with orchestras, performers, and publishers; and materials generated from the performance of these compositions (including recordings, programs, reviews, and program notes). Other records relate to workshops that Colgrass led, particularly his Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) workshops and Colgrass' writings, including poetry, articles, manuscripts and notes for his books, and correspondence with friends and colleagues.

Colgrass, Michael

Lothar Klein fonds

  • OTUFM 14
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2002

Fonds includes 110 files of sketches and final copies for many of his musical works; 3 files of theoretical and critical writings; and, 1 file of programs and press notices.

Klein, Lothar

Udo Kasemets fonds

  • OTUFM 11
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2011

Fonds consists of sketches, drafts, and texts for Udo Kasemets’s compositions, including scores prior to 1960 that use conventional media, and those after 1960, which consists of multi-purpose scores, combination scores, and theatre pieces. The fonds also contains programs and press notices for performances by Udo Kasemets and of his works; correspondence with many American avant-garde musicians; and Kasemets’s projects and notes from his time teaching at the Ontario College of Art.

Kasemets, Udo

Gordon Delamont fonds

  • OTUFM 36
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1979

Fonds consists of jazz compositions, dance band arrangements, and biographical materials.

Delamont, Gordon

University of Toronto Opera Division fonds

  • OTUFM 84
  • Fonds
  • 1945-2022

Fonds consists of the records of the University of Toronto Opera Division, including promotional materials, production files, costume designs, and photographs.

University of Toronto. Opera Division

Talivaldis Kenins fonds

  • OTUFM 12
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1997

Fonds consists of manuscript scores, compositional sketches, correspondence, programs, and teaching materials, related to Kenins's career as a composer and professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

Kenins, Talivaldis

Walter Buczynski fonds

  • OTUFM 31
  • Fonds
  • 1945-2019

Fonds consists of manuscript music; radio music and children's pieces; correspondence with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canadian Music Centre (CMC), Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, performers, representatives of performing organizations, friends, colleagues, friends, colleagues, students; press notices and reviews; programs; Polish community activities; notebooks and journals.

Buczynski, Walter

John Hawkins fonds

  • OTUFM 37
  • Fonds
  • 1944-2007

Fonds consists of compositions and arrangements by John Hawkins, program notes, correspondence, teaching materials and biographical documents, sound recordings, and video recordings.

Hawkins, John

Elyakim (Peter) Taussig fonds

  • OTUFM 13
  • Fonds
  • 1944-1993

Fonds includes audio tapes, video art works, correspondence, compositions and arrangements, scrapbooks, and term papers for Taussig's graduate courses.

Taussig, Elyakim

Victor Feldbrill fonds

  • OTUFM 63
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2018

Fonds consists of records that pertain to the career of Canadian conductor Victor Feldbrill, including his conductor's scores for Canadian compositions (many of which he premiered), including his annotations and corrections, and composers' autographs. Fonds also includes audio recordings of performances that Feldbrill conducted, including many premiere performances of Canadian compositions, spanning Feldbrill's entire career conducting various orchestras in Canada and abroad.

Feldbrill, Victor

Phil Nimmons fonds

  • OTUFM 30
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1997

Fonds consists primarily of manuscript scores and parts for music written, arranged, and orchestrated by Phil Nimmons. Materials also include annotated scripts for incidental music that Nimmons wrote for various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television productions. Fonds includes scores and parts for two ensembles that Nimmons led, Nimmons 'N' Nine, and its expanded version Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, as well as various other ensembles.

Nimmons, Phil

Conservatory Chamber Music Club fonds

  • OTUFM 29
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1941

Fonds consists of material relating to the meetings of Conservatory Chamber Music Club. Includes one minute book 1937-1941, including descriptions of programs and list of members.

Conservatory Chamber Music Club

John Beckwith fonds

  • OTUFM 10
  • Fonds
  • 1936-2019

Fonds consists of records created by John Beckwith during his career, predominantly relating to his compositions. Materials include sketches, drafts, final copies, texts, performance records, and related correspondence for most of his works, as well as programs, press notices, and recordings of performances.

Other materials include records relating to his activities as a radio commentator and script writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); music educator at the University of Toronto; writer of numerous lectures, articles, and books; and music critic for the Toronto Star.

Beckwith, John

Derek Holman fonds

  • OTUFM 49
  • Fonds
  • 1933-2016

Fonds consists of the compositions, recordings, and papers of Derek Holman, a former professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. The fonds contains manuscript scores and parts by Derek Holman, including original compositions, arrangements and realizations, juvenilia, and sketch materials; audio and video recordings of Holman’s compositions and performances; papers and photographs from Holman’s work with various choirs and churches (including at the University of London, University of Toronto, University of Trinity College, Bishop-Strachan, Royal School of Church Music, St. Simon’s, Concord Singers, Croydon Bach Society, Grace Church-on-the-Hill, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Company); and, Holman’s personal papers, including awards, certificates, degrees, and notebooks.

Holman, Derek

Boyd Neel fonds

  • OTUFM 27
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1982

Fonds includes catalogues of the libraries of Boyd Neel's orchestras, and catalogues of his personal scores and recordings collections. Fonds also includes recordings of performances conducted by Boyd Neel, and a photograph of Neel conducting one of his orchestras.

Neel, Boyd

Kathleen Irwin fonds

  • OTUFM 24
  • Fonds
  • [1930-1939]

Fonds consists of publicity materials for the piano duo of Kathleen Irwin and Winifred Mazzoleni and manuscript scores for voice and piano by Kathleen Irwin.

Irwin, Kathleen

Ron Collier fonds

  • OTUFM 35
  • Fonds
  • 1929-2004

Fonds consists of records created during Ron Collier's career as a performer, composer, arranger, teacher, and band leader. The fonds includes manuscripts of Collier's arrangements and original compositions; correspondence with musicians; photographs; lecture notes from his career at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario; and records from his collaborations with Duke Ellington. Fonds also contains audio and video recordings of performances and lectures.

Collier, Ron

Robert G. Manson fonds

  • OTUFM 83
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1950

Fonds consists of autograph manuscript scores and parts for compositions and arrangements for orchestra, string orchestra, string quartet, and woodwind quintet by Robert G. Manson.

Manson, Robert Graham

Arthur Hartmann fonds

  • OTUFM 21
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1937

Fonds consists of a photograph and correspondence.

Hartmann, Arthur

Eileen Law fonds

  • OTUFM 16
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1968

Fonds contains materials relating to Eileen Law's career as a contralto and teacher, including programs, reviews and publicity materials of performances, photographs, and teaching materials.

Law, Eileen

Elizabeth Benson Guy fonds

  • OTUFM 60
  • Fonds
  • 1921-2010, predominant 1947-1979

Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Elizabeth Benson Guy, including correspondence, photographs, programs, reviews, press notices, and manuscripts copied by or for Benson Guy.

Benson-Guy, Elizabeth

Eugene Kash fonds

  • OTUFM 61
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1997

Fonds consists of programs from his performances, a letter confirming his appointment to the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto, a newspaper clipping, and his annotated copy of the Canadian Music Centre sheet music for Six Miniatures after Hokusai for violin and piano by Elliot Weisgarber (1972). The fonds also includes two catalogues for his personal music library: one current to 1976, and another current to 1997.

Kash, Eugene

Emmy Heim fonds

  • OTUFM 58
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1956

Fonds consists of Emmy Heim's lecture notes for the Toronto Conservatory of Music (TCM) and Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (RCMT), correspondence, programs, posters, and a photograph. Fonds also includes manuscripts of songs written for, or copied by, Emmy Heim.

Heim, Emmy

Leslie Bell fonds

  • OTUFM 39
  • Fonds
  • 1906-2007

Fonds contains documents relating to Leslie R. Bell's career as a composer, arranger, choral conductor, educator, and music columnist. Materials include manuscript music (both of arrangements and original compositions); radio scripts and notes relating to his work in broadcasting as a radio commentator for CBC and CFRB, Toronto; publicity documents relating to performances by Leslie Bell and the Leslie Bell Singers; correspondence; documents relating to his work as the co-founder and first executive director of the Canadian Music Educators' Association (CMEA); and, newspaper articles, including those written by Bell and about him). The fonds also contains postmortem documents, including condolence correspondence to his wife, Leona Bell, and documents relating to the Leslie Bell Singers reunions and the Leslie Bell Scholarship.

Bell, Leslie R.

Speranza Musical Club fonds

  • OTUFM 26
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1948

Fonds includes minute/program books (1906-1912, 1912-1922, 1922-1936, 1936-1946); cash books (1914-1928,1928-1948); file including texts of skits with parody songs, printed constitutions (1916/1917 and 1920), and typescript history of 1899-1962.

Speranza Musical Club

Olive Scholey fonds

  • OTUFM 22
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1911

Fonds consists of a scrapbook with programs and press notices of Olive Scholey's performances as a contralto, at the Toronto College of Music, and in other venues in Southern Ontario.

Scholey, Olive

Frank Welsman fonds

  • OTUFM 25
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1920, 1971

Fonds consists of scrapbooks and signed photographs, predominantly relating to concerts by the Toronto Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (which became the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1908).

Welsman, Frank Squire

George Lambert fonds

  • OTUFM 08
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1971

Fonds includes memorabilia , photographs, correspondence, lecture notes, brochures and programs.

Lambert, George James

Greta Kraus fonds

  • OTUFM 59
  • Fonds
  • 1898-2006, predominant 1938-1997

Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Greta Kraus, including correspondence, photographs, programs, and some materials relating to the Kraus family.

Kraus, Greta

Carl Morey fonds

  • OTUFM 52
  • Fonds
  • 1897-2015

Collection predominantly consists of programs that Carl Morey collected from attending performances and for research purposes. Some programs include program notes written by Morey (e.g., Canadian Opera Company programs, among others), ticket stubs, newspaper clippings of reviews of the performances, and/or autographs from the performers.

Morey, Carl

Edith McConica fonds

  • OTUFM 72
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1930

Fonds consists of sheet music used by Edith McConica when she accompanied silent films in Luseland, Saskatchewan in the 1920s, as well as some pedagogical sheet music used when she was learning piano from Leora Kridler (Mrs. Milton Herrold) in her home town of Findlay, Ohio, and teaching her children piano in Luseland.

McConica, Edith

Harry and Ida Culley fonds

  • OTUFM 69
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1983, 2021-2022

Fonds consists of records pertaining to the two-piano, four-hands duo of Harry and Ida "Claudette" Culley, the "The Black and White Spotters". Records include annotated sheet music and manuscript parts copied by Harry Culley for performance; newspaper articles and press releases; posters; programs; photographs; and correspondence.

Culley, Henry Francis

Gena Branscombe fonds

  • OTUFM 17
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1981

Fonds contains music manuscripts, published copies of Branscombe's arrangements and compositions with inscriptions from the composer, photographs, and programs.

Branscombe, Gena

Alberto Guerrero fonds

  • OTUFM 07
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1990, predominant 1906-1937

Fonds consists of compositions, programs and reviews, photographs and family documents.

Guerrero, Alberto

Kathleen Parlow fonds

  • OTUFM 02
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1967, 2016, predominant 1908-1950

Fonds consists of material relating to Kathleen Parlow's personal life and her musical career, including photographs, correspondence, daybooks, sheet music, concert programs, press, and personal material.

Parlow, Kathleen

J. Churchill Arlidge fonds

  • OTUFM 34
  • Fonds
  • 1853-1913, 1997-2008

Fonds contains writings, family letters, photographs, photocopies of biographical documents, collected by Bob Arlidge, and manuscripts of Arlidge's original compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions of performed pieces.

Arlidge, Joseph Churchill