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Other ensembles and concert series [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

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Date:

1931-1996.

Reference:

R12803-183-7-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings

Found in:

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Item ID number:

3919104

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Alexander Brott fonds

Other ensembles and concert series
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1931-1996.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.11 m of textual records.
231 photographs : 169 b&w and 38 col., 24 col. negatives.
2 audio cassettes (56 min. 47 sec.).

Language of material:

English

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This series consists of records pertaining mainly to the musical activities of Alexander Brott as conductor. In addition to gala concerts and concert series, he conducted various ensembles in Canada and around the world, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kingston Symphony Association, Montreal Young Virtuosi, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Montreal Civic Youth Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Orchestra of Radio Hilversum, Stockholm Orchestra, Kol Israel Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de México and the Symphony Orchestra of the Soviet State Radio and Television. It contains, among other items, correspondence (Désiré Defauw, Vladimir Golschmann, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Wilfrid Pelletier, Rudolph Ganz, Efrem Kurtz, Leopold Stokowski, Antal Dorati, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Bruno Walter, George Enesco, Sir Thomas Beecham, Jean Papineau-Couture, Charles Dutoit, Pierre Mercure, Ernest Bloch, Anton Kuerti, Oskar Morawetz, S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté, François D'Albert, Vlado Perlemuter, Arthur Fiedler, Maureen Forrester, Benny Goodman, Léopold Simoneau, Alexandre Lagoya, Sonia del Rio, Angel Romero, Jan Simons, Frieder Weissmann, John Newmark, Larry Adler, R. Murray Schafer, Joseph Petric, Rosalyn Tureck, Yo-Yo Ma, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Franco Gulli, Joseph Rouleau, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Donald Bell, Jon Vickers, Healey Willan, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Zara Nelsova, Otto Klemperer, José Iturbi, István Anhalt, Gary Karr, etc.); contracts; letter patents; by-laws; minutes of meetings; financial records; resumes; schedules; concert programmes; promotional material; audition results; scripts; press clippings; photographs of performances, events and various artists.

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