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University of Toronto Music Library MacMillan, Ernest, Sir
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Memorabilia

Series consists of a copy of Emmy Heim's obituary by Ronald Hambleton in the Globe and Mail (October 13, 1954); the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto Monthly Bulletin (November 1954) with an obituary written by Sir Ernest MacMillan; and a copy of the publicity photo used by Heim for many of her programs.

Musicians

Series consists of glass lantern slides of paintings, busts, caricatures, cartoons, and manuscript renderings of musicians, including: Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philip Emmanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, Notker Balbulus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Countess Therese Brunswick, Frederic Chopin, Arcangelo Corelli, Karl Czerny, Louis Claude Daquin, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Andrey Razumovsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Heinrich Schutz, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, and Mathilde Wesendonck. Series also includes slides of locations of significance to some composers (e.g., house in Eisenach where J.S. Bach was born); and reproductions of manuscripts by some of the composers.

Publicity photographs of other artists

File contains photographs of the following: Frances Alda; Louis Bachner; Sophie Braslau; Wishart Campbell (signed); Galli-Curci; Emmy Heim (signed); Ernest MacMillan (4: 1 signed; 1 with choir and orchestra, rehearsing St. Matthew Passion, Convocation Hall, 1931); Giovanni Martinelli; James W. McEnery (signed) ; Earle Moss (signed) ; Philarmonic Choir of Salt Lake City, Utah, with H. Frederick Davis, Dorothy Maynor and George Schick ; Lily Pons (2); Schumann-Heink ; Donna Small (signed) ; Reginald Stewart and the Bach Choir in Yorkminster Church, Toronto; Jenny Taggart (signed); Toronto Opera Guild, Lohengrin, Massey Hall 1939; Unidentified Toronto church choir.

Photographs and posters

File includes a photograph of Carl Morey at the Orford String Quartet Summer School at Oakville, Ontario (1973); with Michael Tippett and Meirion Bowen in his office at the Faculty of Music (January 1987); and at the ribbon cutting at the University of Toronto Music Library [1992]. File also includes an autographed photograph from Michael Tippett to Morey [1987] and a souvenir album of photographs from the plaque unveiling ceremony held by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to commemorate Sir Ernest MacMillan (August 18, 1989). Morey attended the unveiling at Massey Hall and is photographed; also photographed were the Brass Quartet of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra; Prof. Thomas H.B. Symons, Chairman, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada; John P. Lawson, President, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall; William Littler; David MacDonald, M.P. Rosedale; Dr. E.S. Mackay, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church; Ross MacMillan, John B. Lawson, Keith MacMillan, Jean MacMillan, and Staff Sergeant Robert Robertson. The album includes a souvenir program from the event.

File also includes a poster for a public lecture by Carl Morey at the Huntington College Social Centre, Laurentian University, "New Music in Canada: the last twenty years" (January 26, 1981).

Photographs of Canadian musicians

File contains photographs of Canadian musicians, many of which are signed, and most of which are not dated: John Beckwith (photo by Robert Lansdale); S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté with string quartet including Peggie Sampson and Victor Feldbrill; Herman Geiger-Torel; Irene Jessner; Greta Kraus; Sir Ernest MacMillan (2 photographs); Lois Marshall (2 photographs); Oskar Morawetz; Charles Peaker; Redferne Hollinshead; Hart House String Quartet (left to right, Milton Blackstone, Geza de Kresz, Boris Hambourg, Harry Adaskin; dedicated "To Lou Taube, 1937").