Subseries 4 - Critical correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

OTUFM 10-H-4

Title

Critical correspondence

Date(s)

1952-2015 (Creation)

Level of description

Subseries

Extent and medium

3 cm of textual records

Context area

Name of creator

Beckwith, John

(1927-2022)

Repository

University of Toronto Music Library

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

John Beckwith (2015, 2018)

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Scope and content

Subseries contains unpublished and published letters-to-the editor, including submissions and responses to articles in The Beaver, Bravo, University of Toronto Bulletin, The Globe and Mail, Musicanada (Myra Grimley), Musicworks, National Geographic, Saturday Night, SoundNotes, TSO News, The Torch (University of Victoria), Toronto Star, The Varsity, and Words and Music.

Subseries also contains incoming and outgoing correspondence that John Beckwith designated as "diatribes" or "critical correspondence" with Murray Adaskin, Michael Albano (University of Toronto), Wray Armstrong (Toronto Symphony Orchestra), Bank of Nova Scotia, Elaine Calder (Canadian Opera Company), June Callwood, Care Canada, Adrienne Clarkson (CBC), COC Marketing, COC Publicity, Robertson Cochran (Globe and Mail), James Craig (University of Toronto), Gloria Dent (Guelph Spring Festival), Bronwyn Drainie, Howard Dyck (CBC), Edmonton Opera Guild, Esprit Orchestra, Michael Finlayson (University of Toronto), Fodor's Travel Publications, Jessica Fraser (Toronto Theatre Alliance), Jim Garrard (Toronto Arts Council Foundation), Wayne Gooding (Opera Canada), Michael Goodwin, Joanne Gradzinski (Guelph Spring Festival), Barbara Hall (Toronto City Hall), Dan Heap MP, Linda Hutcheon, William Kilbourn, Alison Latham (Oxford University Press), Murdo Mackinnon, Rick MacMillan (SOCAN), Lynn McDonald MP, Joanne Morrow (Canada Council), Ontario Court, Orchestras Canada, Robert Pritchard (University of Toronto), Doreen Rao (University of Toronto), John Reid (Canadian Music Centre, Calgary), Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University), Robert Rosevear, St. James Press, Rodney Sharman, Georg and Tanya Tintner, William Toye, (Oxford University Press Canada), University of Toronto Parking Office, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Hazel Walker (Toronto Musicians' Association), and Tara Wilson (University of Toronto President's Circle).

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Language of material

English

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Finding aids

Uploaded finding aid

otufm10-john-beckwith.pdf

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Publication note

Some items in this subseries were published or republished in Music Annals: Research and Critical Writings by a Canadian Composer 1973-2014 (Toronto: Institute for Music in Canada, 2022):

"On Nicholas Goldschmidt and 'Music 2000'" (unpublished letter-to-the-editor, The Globe and Mail, 5 December 1988)
"Samurai warriors? Ah, that must be Macbeth" (initially published in The Globe and Mail, 23 November 1993)