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John Beckwith fonds

  • OTUFM 10
  • Fonds
  • 1888-2024, 1936-2022 predominant

Fonds consists of records created by John Beckwith during his career as a composer, writer, music critic, radio broadcaster, administrator, educator, and performer. Records include sketches, drafts, and manuscripts of his compositions and arrangements, as well as programs, posters, reviews, correspondence, recordings, and other materials from premieres and other performances of his works.

Fonds also includes records relating to Beckwith's work as a radio commentator and script writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); music critic for the Toronto Star; professor and dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music; and writer of numerous lectures, articles, and books.

Beckwith, John

Die vier Grobiane = I Quattro rusteghi / Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

File consists of an annotated score with a handwritten English libretto and photographs of the actors on stage with the set from a February-March 1954 Canadian Opera Company (COC) production that Herman Geiger-Torel directed with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Hans Berends, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Evelyn Gould, Joanne Ivey, Andrew MacMillan, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Patricia Rideout, Phyllis Mailing, Jon Vickers, Glenn Gardiner, Mary Morrison, James Milligan, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Alexander Gray, William Copeland, Robert Goulet, Dolores Huck.

Salome / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a 1965 performance and three photographs of the set and one of the opera singers. Annotations include a handwritten cast list from another, likely earlier, performance. The 1965 production for the Canadian Opera Company (COC) was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers (1965): Garnet Brooks, Darlene Hirst, Donald Young, Maurice Brown, David Geary, Margaret Tynes, Roxolana Roslak, Joanna Myhal, Royce Reaves, Phil Stark, Arlene Meadows, Thomas Park, Danny Tait, Ian Garratt, Wallace Williamson, Tito Dean, Oskar Raulfs, Ermanno Mauro, Abbot Anderson.

Elektra / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with production notes from the September-October 1969 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC), including stage plans and a photograph of the set. The COC production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Heinrich Bender, conductor; Lawrence Schäfer, set design; and Marie Day, costume design.

Performers: Joan Maxwell, Kathryn Newman, Leah Werman, Dodi Protero, Elsie Sawchuk, Stephanie Gerson, Astrid Varnay, Eileen Schauler, Mignon Dunn, Sonia Rohozynsky, Lorna Hearst, Paul Trépanier, Steven Henrikson, Richard Mundt, Heran Rombouts, Phil Stark.

Herman Geiger-Torel collection

  • OTUFM 05
  • Collection
  • 1934-1976

Collection consists of Herman Geiger-Torel's library of piano-vocal scores, including his markings and notes for various opera productions, including performances that he directed in Troppau, Czechoslovakia; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Montevideo, Uruguay; Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janiero; Canadian Opera Company; and the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School.

Geiger-Torel, Herman

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

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

Programs, posters, and other ephemera

Series consists of programs and posters from concerts held at Gallery 345, as well as thank you cards and notes from performers, and building plans for the gallery space and building (345 Souraren Ave., Toronto, Ontario). Series also includes a USB thumb drive (173 MB) with archived files from the Gallery 345 website, including performance announcements, program information, and performer biographies.

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

Costume and set designs

Subseries consists of sketches and photographs of set and costume designs for productions by the Opera School, including:

  • Figaro's wedding costume from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro : costume design for Andrew MacMillan, designed by Stewart Bagnani (1948 and 1951)
  • Ballet, act III from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro : costume design by Stewart Bagnani (1948 and 1951)
  • Susanna's wedding dress from Le Nozze di Figaro : costume design for Marguerite Gignac, designed by Stewart Bagnani (1948 and 1951)
  • Sparafucile from Verdi's Rigoletto : costume design for Jan Rubes, designed by Stewart Bagnani (1950)
  • Don Giovanni from Mozart's Don Giovanni : costume design for Edmund Hockridge, designed by Stewart Bagnani (1950)
  • Donna Elvira's travelling costume from Mozart's Don Giovanni : costume design for Elizabeth Benson Guy, designed by Stewart Bagnani (1950)
  • Rossini's Il Turco in Italia : [photograph of set design] (November 1968)
  • Verdi's Rigoletto : costume designs for Rigoletto by Suzanne Mess (1973)
  • Mozart's Don Giovanni : [photographs of set design] (March 1978)
  • Britten's Rape of Lucretia : [slides for projection] (December 1978)
  • Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld : costume sketch for Pluto, designed by Elsie Sawchuk [photograph] (March 1979)
  • Britten's Sir John in Love : [set designs] (March 1984)
  • Mozart's Don Giovanni : costume designs for Donna Anna, performed by Alyssa Durnie and Leannie Kaufman [2017]
  • Mozart's Marriage of Figaro : production sketches (n.d.).

Photographs

Subseries consists of photographs and contact sheets of most major Opera School productions between 1946 and 2016; headshots of performers and administrators (Kathryn Knapp, John Beckwith, Ettore Mazzoleni, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jacqui Lynn Fidlar, Tania Perrish, Eve-Rachel McLeod, Herman Geiger-Torel, Virginia Lippert, Marion Parsons, Ernesto Barbini, Ermanno Mauro, Alpar the fencing master); and photographs from various Opera School events, including the Opera Department's 25th anniversary, the commemoration of the Herman Geiger-Torel room, and Lofti Mansouri's visit. Subseries also includes photographs of MacMillan Theatre, Walter Hall, the construction of the Edward Johnson Building, opera student scholarship winners, and Helen May's lesson with Dr. Ernesto Vinci, with Emelie Rubleu at the piano (June 25, 1952).

Subseries includes photographs from the following productions:

  • Opera excerpts (December 1946)
  • The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (April 1947)
  • Orfeo and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (February 1948)
  • Rosalinda by Johann Strauss (May 1948)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1948)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1949)
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (May 1949)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (November 1950)
  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (February 1950)
  • Opera School film by the National Film Board (1951)
  • The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1952)
  • Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (February 1953)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (February 1953)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (May 1953)
  • The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1955)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1959)
  • The Marriage contract by Gioachino Rossini (April 1960)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (April 1961)
  • The Mother by Alois Hába (April 1961)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi (April 1961)
  • A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley (April 1962)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1963)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1964)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (March 1964) [opening of MacMillan Theatre]
  • Angélique by Jacques Ibert and Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (April 1964)
  • The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (February 1965)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (April 1965)
  • The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (December 1965)
  • L'Oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1966)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (February 1966)
  • The Portuguese Inn by Luigi Cherubini and The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst (March 1966)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (September 1966)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1966)
  • The Impressario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet (January 1967)
  • The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (February 1967)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (April 1967)
  • Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (November 1967)
  • Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet and There and Back by Paul Hindemith (December 1967)
  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1967)
  • The Unwilling Physician by Salvatore Allegra and Il Combattimento di Tancredi by Claudio Monteverdi (January 1968)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy (March 1968)
  • The Turk in Italy by Gioachino Rossini (November 1968)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1968)
  • Hamlet by Humphrey Searle (February 1969)
  • Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss (March 1969)
  • "A School for Opera" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and GIacomo Puccini (March 1970)
  • Iphigenie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (November 1970)
  • The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (December 1970)
  • "The Magic of Opera" by Carl Maria von Weber, Giuseppe Verdi, and Jacques Offenbach (March 1971)
  • The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (December 1971)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1972)
  • Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (January 1973)
  • L'Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli (April 1973)
  • The Prisoner's Play by John Rea (May 1973)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1974)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1974)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (April 1974)
  • The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (January 1975)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 1975)
  • The Crucible by Robert Ward (January-February 1976)
  • The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney Bennett (April 1976)
  • The Four Ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 1977)
  • Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček (March 1977)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (December 1977)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (December 1977)
  • Don Giovanni by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1978)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (November 1978)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (March 1979)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (November 1979)
  • Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1980)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1980)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1981)
  • La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach (November 1981)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1982)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1982)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel (March 1983)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1983)
  • Opera excerpts (1983)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi and Prima Donna by Arthur Benjamin (November-December 1983)
  • Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1984)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1985)
  • Mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1986)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1987)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (March 1987)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1988)
  • The Marriage Contract by Gioachino Rossini (March 1988)
  • La Caterina by Joseph Haydn (March 1989)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (March 1989)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1990)
  • "French Trilogy": L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy, Le portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet, and M. Choufleuri by Jacques Offenbach (February 1991)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1992)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (March 1993)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1993)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1994)
  • Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1995)
  • L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier [March 1997]
  • La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1997)
  • Paul Bunyan, op. 17 by Benjamin Britten (March 1998)
  • Threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht (November 1998)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1999)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 by Benjamin Britten (November 1999)
  • La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini (February 2000)
  • Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss (November 2006)
  • L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel [March 2009]
  • The Secret marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (2010)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 2011)
  • Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (November 2013)
  • The Machine Stops by Patrick McGraw, Robert Taylor and Stephen Webb, libretto by Michael Albano, based on the short story by E.M. Forster (January 2016)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss (n.d.)
  • The Four ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (n.d.)
  • Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (n.d.)
  • Orpheus (n.d.)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (n.d.)
  • Riders to the sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (n.d.)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (n.d.)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy (n.d.)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • M. Choufleri by Jacques Offenbach (n.d.)
  • Manon by Jules Massenet (n.d.)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (n.d.)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)

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

Music for films

Subseries consists of records relating to film music performed and recorded by Esprit Orchestra for Rhombus Media Inc., including correspondence, notes on recording sessions, and materials relating to premieres and gala events. Films include: Ravel (1987); For the Whales (1989); The Radical Romantic: John Weinzweig (1990); September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994); Ravel's Brain (2001); Perfect Pie (2002); Burnt Toast (2006); Silk (2007). Music by Alexina Louie and Alex Pauk.

Subseries also contains records relating to the Toothpaste interactive DVD (2001) from Bravo! New Style Arts Channel.

Photographs

Subseries consists of photographs of educational events led by Esprit Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra in concert, and promotional photographs of musicians. In addition to promotional photographs of Esprit Orchestra and Alex Pauk, the subseries includes photographs of the following musicians and composers: Robert Aitken, John Burke (2), Francis Chan, Maureen Forrester, Chan Ka Nin Barbara Hannigan, John Hess, Scott Irvine, Rosemarie Landry, Tomas Dusatko, Joseph Macerollo (2), Marie-Danielle Parent, Jon Kimura Parker (3), Christina Petrowska, John Rea (2), Frederic Rzewski, Ryan C.W. Scott (2), Harry Somers, Norman Symonds, Andrew Tees, Jean-Guy Thibodeau, Gilles Tremblay, Owen Underhill.

Posters

Subseries consists of select posters for concerts by the Esprit Orchestra:

  • World Music Days (September 23-28 1984)
  • Les Evénements du Neuf (November 9, 1985 - April 11, 1986)
  • The Esprit Orchestra presents Steve Reich (February 1, [1987])
  • [Esprit Orchestra concert with world premiere of Ecstasy by Ka Nin Chan] (March 8, [1987])
  • 100% Brand New (January 30, 1994) (autographed by composers) (2 copies)
  • The Princess of the Stars (September 12-14, 1997)
  • La ciel et la terre : musique canadienne sacrée [part of International Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam] (September 9, 1999)
  • Ravel's brain [April 4, 2001]
  • Hogtown goes Motown : a fundraiser for Esprit Orchestra (April 28, [2004])
  • Benefit screening and part for the launch of Burnt Toast (February 6, [2006])
  • Brand New and Pre-Loved (March 26, [2009])
  • Take the Dog Sled (November 15, 2009)
  • Penderecki plus! (January 29, 2010)
  • À l'aventure! (March 31, 2010)
  • Esprit Orchestra : bene fête three (May 14, 2012).

Public relations, promotion, and marketing materials

Series consists of public relations and promotional materials created to promote Esprit Orchestra and their performances, including programs, posters, concert season brochures, flyers, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, newspaper clippings of reviews, promotional photographs, posters, and other general marketing materials.

Fundraising events

Subseries consists of records relating to fundraising events for and by Esprit Orchestra. Records include correspondence, ticket sale information, promotional materials, minutes and notes from the planning committee.

Fundraising events include: Sai Woo Fundraising Banquet (1988); Black Tie Bingo (1990-1994); Orford String Quartet fundraiser (February 22, 1991); Hard Times Barn Dance (1992); An evening with Jon Kimura Parker (May 6, 1994); A private evening of music with Ofra Harnoy (May 1995); Midsummer night's garden party (June 21, 1995); An evening with Richard Margison (April 1, 1996); Bravo! fundraisers (1997-1999); Hogg's Hollow fundraiser (1999); and Hogtown goes Motown (2005).

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

Teaching, conducting, composing, and performing records

Subseries contains records from Derek Holman's career in education, conducting, composition, and performance, including his time with the Bishop Strachan School, Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Church of St. Simon the Apostle, Concord Singers, Croydon Bach Society, Croydon Parish Church, Grace Church-on-the-Hill, Royal School of Church Music, St. Thomas' Church Choir, University of London, and the University of Toronto. The subseries includes correspondence, photographs, contracts and agreements, assorted writings, lecture notes, and programs.

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

Photographs of Derek Holman, friends, and colleagues

File includes photographs of Derek Holman conducting various choirs, including the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Croydon Parish Church Choir, the Cathedral Organists' Association at Westminster Abbey, St. Simon's Church Choir and with various friends and colleagues, including Robertson Davies, and photographs of the Truro School Prefectorial Staff (including Holman, 1948), and Holman from the University of Trinity College convocation (2000) when he received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Letters.

Church of St. Simon the Apostle

File contains programs, a photograph of the boys' choir, correspondence, lists of choir members, posters, reviews, and lists of church service music for St. Simon's. File also includes an autograph book from the end of his tenure as the organist-choirmaster at the church.

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.

University of Trinity College

File contains correspondence and a program from the University of Trinity College convocation (2000), when Derek Holman received an honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters.

Order of Canada

File includes congratulatory correspondence, photographs and programs from the event, newspaper clippings, and the certificate.

Personal and professional papers

Series consists of records relating to Derek Holman's education and career as an educator, composer, conductor, and organist. The series includes awards, certificates, degrees, photographs, programs, posters, reviews of performances, notebooks, correspondence, lecture notes, and assorted writings by Derek Holman.

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

Memorabilia

Series consists of autographed photographs for Dr. Ernesto Vinci of Licia Albanese and Risë Stevens, Alexander Gray, Edward Johnson (with unidentified students), and Wilfrid Pelletier.

Opera stagings

Series consists of glass plate slides of stage designs and settings for particular productions of operas and other stage productions, including: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven; Wozzeck by Alban Berg; Giunio Bruto by Domenico Cimarosa; Pélleas and Mélisande by Claude Debussy; Orfeo ed Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck; unidentified oratorios and operas by George Frideric Handel; Ballet du roi and Isis by Jean-Baptiste Lully; Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Salome by Richard Strauss; Aida, Don Carlos, La forza del destino, and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi; and Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung, and Parsifal* by Richard Wagner.

Stage designers represented in this collection include: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, R.E. Jones, Adolphe Appia, Ludwig Sievert, Panos Aravantinos, Norman Bel Geddes, Salvador Dali, Caspar Neher, Giorgio de Chirico, and Rolf Gérard.

Opera houses and theatres

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various opera houses and theatres in Europe, including: Theater an der Wien; Esterhazy; Teatro Communale, Florence; La Scala, Milan; Teatro San Carlo, Naples; Old Dresden State Theatre; State Opera House, Dresden; Bayreuth [Festspielhaus]; Opera Comique, Paris; Findling House, Chelse; Civic Opera House, Chicago; Metropolitan Opera House; and, Bloomington [Theatre, Indiana].

Instruments

Series consists of glass lantern slides showing images of various instruments. Slides include images of instruments as included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, and Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, as well as reproductions of paintings and other artistic renderings of instruments. Instruments include the theorbo, lute, harp, viola da gamba, viola d'amore, German flute, lyre, guitar, unfretted and fretted clavichords, spinnet, Silberman pianoforte, gravicembalo, and oliphants.

Notation and manuscripts

Series consists of examples of notations, particularly neumes and mensural notation. Examples are mostly taken from images included in the book Handbuch der Notationskunde by Johannes Wolf. Wolf was one of Arnold Walter's teachers when he studied musicology at the University of Berlin. Series also includes reproductions of manuscripts included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, and World history of the dance by Curt Sachs; sequences from St. Gallen; illustrated pages from the Codex Manesse, Sachsenspiegel, Psautier de Lothaire, and Las Cantigas de Santa María; and a plate interpreting animal symbols.

Cathedrals

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various cathedrals, churches, basilicas, abbeys, and monasteries.

Most locations are in France: Albi Cathedral; Amiens Cathedral; Arles Cathedral; Bayeux Cathedral; Beauvais Cathedral; Bourges Cathedral; Carcassonne Cathedral; Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims; Caudebec Cathedral; Cluny Abbey; Coutances Cathedral; Dol Cathedral; Elne Cathedral; Évreux Cathedral; La Trinité, Caen; Le Mans Cathedral; Notre Dame, Chartres; Notre Dame, Paris; Quimper Cathedral; Rodez Cathedral; Rouen Cathedral; Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges; Sainte-Chapelle, Paris; Saint-Étienne, Caen; Saint-Eustache, Paris; Saint-Maclou, Rouen; and Saint-Ouen, Rouen.

Other locations include Rome (Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls; Basilica of Saint Clement; Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo); Prague (Kostel sv. Josefa na Malé Straně; Kostel sv. Václava; Kostel svatého Ignáce; Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné; Kostel svatého Salvátora; Kostel svatého Víta); Leipzig (St. Thomas' Church); Québec (Laval Cathedral); Catalonia, Spain (Monastery of Sant Cugat); and England (Exeter Cathedral; Westminster Abbey).

Series also contains miscellaneous related slides, including examples of Early Christian cathedrals and basilicas and exemplars of French Gothic architecture. Some slides were reproduced from A History of Architecture by Banister Fletcher and Sir Banister Fletcher (published by George Philip & Son, London).

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.

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