Fonds consists of manuscripts ranging from preliminary work and sketches to full scores. Includes orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and operatic music. Composer's program notes for some compositions and photonegatives of some scores are present. Compositions represented include among others Lustro (a triptych comprising Divan i Shams i Tabriz, Music for the Morning of the World and Beyond the Great Gate of Light), Son of Heldenleben, Canzoni for Prisoners, Minnelieder, Sappho, Gita, Requiems for the Party Girl (from Patria II), television opera Loving, The darkly splendid earth, The falcon's trumpet, Gitanjali and Music for a Montreal solstice. Also includes programs, brochures, pamphlets, posters, publicity, reviews, articles and other newsclippings relating to R.M. Schafer and/or his work and lectures, workshops and symposia in which he participated.
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Fonds consists of correspondence and financial records; published work; sound recordings; concert programs; newsclippings of articles about W. A. McCauley; manuscripts of music sketches, scores and instrumental parts. Compositions include incidental music for stage, radio, television and film; works for orchestra, concert band, chamber ensembles, chorus and voice; and educational pieces for piano. Shotlists and commentaries accompany some incidental music.
McCauley, WilliamFonds consists of manuscript scores, ranging from rough drafts and fragments to full scores, of instrumental, orchestral, choral and vocal works; harmony exercises; biographical material; and programs and promotional material for concerts featuring V. Archer's works. MsC 303 donated by V. Archer in 1990.
Archer, VioletFonds consists of correspondence, contracts, newsclippings and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation music programs produced by S.I. Glick; manuscripts of CBC radio scripts of music programs produced by S.I. Glick; manuscript sketches and scores of instrumental, orchestral and vocal works; sound recordings of a variety of music including compositions by S.I. Glick; conference papers; concert programs; and awards. Fonds also includes two appendices. MsC 313 consists of 15 audiocassettes which are amateur recordings of S.I. Glick rehearsing and teaching (1994-2001) the Kol Shira Choir of Beth Tikvah Synagogue. MsC 316 consists of an audiocassette recording of a tribute to S.I. Glick broadcast on CBC Radio, April 22, 2002.
Glick, Srul IrvingFonds consists of framed page of music score, concert and conference programmes, newsclippings and sound recordings.
Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-CarmenFonds consists of correspondence; newsclippings of articles and reviews; programs of concerts featuring works by R. W. Henderson; and manuscript scores of choral and instrumental music.
Henderson, Ruth WatsonCollection consists of approximately 630 playing card sets from many parts of the world. The collection reflects not only Dr. Johnston's collecting passion but also his desire that the collection provide research material complementing resources in the Eugene Strens Recreational Mathematics Collection. During his lifetime, Dr. Johnston had also speculated on the possibility of inviting designs for University of Calgary playing cards which could be used for fund raising purposes to support the music archives collection.
Johnston, RichardFonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts, ranging from notes and sketches to full scores, of orchestral, chamber and choral music as well as manuscripts of lectures and radio scripts about various Canadian composers; material about N. Beecroft and her career including items from her early education, newsclippings, articles, brochures and programmes; sound recordings of compositions by N. Beecroft, as well as of interviews, documentaries and tapes produced by Norma Beecroft Sound Inc. including master tapes for several Stratford Festival productions; videocassettes from the National Choreographic Seminar at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 1980; correspondence, financial records and other material relating to Beecroft/Maki Productions and to various music programs such as Ten Centuries Programs, Music of Today and Passage of the 20th Century, with which N. Beecroft was associated, particularly at CJRT-FM Radio, Toronto, Ontario; proposals, conferences, committees and workshops in which N. Beecroft was involved; material relating to Norma Beecroft Sound Inc.; and other miscellaneous material.
Beecroft, NormaFonds consists of manuscript and microfilmed scores of compositions by M. Surdin, including many used to accompany theatrical productions and as incidental music for various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation dramatic series; lyrics and scripts of radio, television and stage plays by numerous Canadian playwrights, such as W. O. Mitchell, Max Braithwaite and Len Peterson, for which M. Surdin composed the accompanying music; sound recordings of radio drama, motion picture themes, symphonic and other music composed by M. Surdin; correspondence; and other miscellaneous material.
Surdin, Morris