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OTUFM 63-A-55
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Threnody : for youth orchestra, speakers, chorus, and tape / R. Murray Schafer
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- 1966-1967 (Creation)
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1 score (45 p.)
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(1933-2021)
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R. Murray Schafer attended the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto from 1952 to 1955, where he studied with Alberto Guerrero (piano), Greta Kraus (harpsichord), John Weinzweig (composition), and Arnold Walter (musicology). He was a visiting composer at the University of Toronto in 2001.
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File contains the score for R. Murray Schafer's Threnody, written December 19-22, 1966 and revised and copied January 12-26, 1967. The score is inscribed by the composer to Feldbrill with thanks for the performance (dated November 1969). It was commissioned by the Alumnae of the Royal Conservatory of Music for the Vancouver Junior Symphony Orchestra.
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Box 2