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Adam Miller & Co.

  • Corporate body
  • 1863-1879

Adam Miller & Co. was a publishing firm. The firm that later became W. J. Gage and Company began in Montreal in 1844 as R. & A. Miller, Booksellers and Stationers. The firm expanded to Toronto in 1860, and in 1863, it became Adam Miller & Co. William Gage was hired as a clerk and bookkeeper in 1874. After Mr. Miller died in 1875, Mr. Gage conducted the business with Mrs. Miller until her retirement in 1878. In 1879, the company changed its name to W. J. Gage & Co.

Adam Stevenson & Co.

  • Corporate body
  • active 1870s

Adam Stevenson & Co. was a Toronto publishing house active in the 1870s.

Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/n80057007
  • Person
  • 1803-1856

Parisian-born French composer Adolphe Charles Adam was the son of Alsatian composer and pianist Johann Ludwig (Jean-Louis) Adam. The latter opposed Adolphe’s musical inclinations, but young Adolphe liked to improvise and was secretive about his composing. At the age of 17 he was allowed to attend the Paris Conservatoire after he promised that his musical interests were only for his own amusement, not for a career. He studied organ and harmonium there under François Adrien Boieldieu but did not keep his promise to his father. By 1830 he had completed 28 works for the theater. To escape the political turmoil in Paris, he went to London for a couple of years. On his return in 1832, he composed more operas, the most popular of which was the 1834 comic operetta “Le Chalet,” a joint effort with his friend, librettist Eugene Scribe. His career was assured with another success, “Le postillon de Longjumeau.” After some differences with the Opéra de Paris, in 1847 he decided to open another opera house in Paris, the Théâtre National. The revolutionary political situation in 1848 meant that it was forced to close, causing him to lose both his own investment and the loans he had undertaken. After his father’s death and heavily in debt, he took a position teaching at the Conservatoire in 1849, where ballet composer Léo Delibes was among his pupils. He worked there until he died in his sleep in 1856. In the course of his prolific career he wrote 70 operas and 14 ballets, the best known of which are Giselle (1841) and Le Corsaire (1856). Although Giselle was not particularly popular at the time, after its revival by famous Russian dancer Sergei Diaghilev in 1910, it became one of the most sought-after roles for ballerinas. He also wrote the Christmas carol “O Holy Night,” known in French as “Minuit, Chrétiennes” or “Cantique de Noël.” Played on the violin by Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, on Christmas Eve in 1906, it was the first piece of music ever broadcast on radio.

Adamcyk, David

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/no2020050425
  • Person
  • 1977-

David Adamcyk graduated from McGill University with a Master's degree in music/composition. He studied under the supervision of Brian Cherney. His works have been performed around Canada, e. g., at the Banff Center for the Arts and the National Arts Center in Ottawa. His piece for solo clarinet, wind symphony and electronics, Balbuzard, was awarded a second prize at the SOCAN Young Composers competition. During 2005-06, Adamcyk was Guest Composer of the McGill Digital Composition Studios.

Adámek, Ondřej, 1979-

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/nr2004013083
  • Person
  • 1979-

Ondřej Adámek received a degree in composition from the Academy of Music in Prague in 2004 and from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 2007, where he also studied electroacoustics, orchestration, improvisation, analysis, and Indian music. He composes orchestra and ensemble pieces drawing inspiration from different musical cultures, including those of Bali, New Caledonia, and Japan, with a detailed focus on instrumental and vocal sound. He seeks out novel extended techniques for classical instruments and develops innovative systems combining video, electroacoustic sound, and instrumental ensembles. In 2002, he received a grant from the UNESCO-Aschberg programme for artists to complete an artistic residency in Nairobi with the Gàara Dance Company, with whom he created Abila. He was a finalist in bi-annual Metamorphoses Acousmatic Music Competition, Belgium, 2002 and 2004. In 2004, he also participated in the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne’s International Young Composers Forum and his Sinuous Words broadcast on Radio-Canada and Radio-Télévision during the 2004 edition of Radio Canada’s Montréal - Cité de la musique. In 2007, he received a grant from Culturesfrance and completed a residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. He completed numerous residences all over the world. He is also the founder and conductor of the vocal ensemble NESEVEN, which has toured extensively. Adámek has received many awards and prizes, including the Prix de Bourges (IMEB) in 2003, the Hungarian Radio Prize in 2004, the Brandenberg Biennale Prize in 2006, the Grand Prix of the Alexandre Tansman Competition in 2010 for Dusty Rusty Hush, and the Enescu Prize in 2011.

Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926

  • n85801217
  • Person
  • 1862-1926

Dr. John George Adami was born on January 12, 1862, in Manchester, Lancashire, England.

He was an English pathologist. In 1892, he was made Strathcona professor of pathology at McGill University, Montreal. Here, by his own original work, the organization of his laboratories, and his ability to attract and inspire students, he quickly made a name for himself and for his department. He was also the head of the pathological department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. A colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served throughout World War I as assistant director of medical services in charge of records at London and in 1919, he received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire award (C.B.E.) for his services. The same year he resigned his position at McGill University to became Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. In 1898, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. In 1912, he became president both of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Association of American Physicians. Two years later he was awarded the Fothergillian gold medal of the Medical Society of London, and in 1917, he delivered the Croonian Lectures before the Royal College of Physicians. He died on August 29, 1926, in either Ruthin Castle, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales or in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (according to different sources).

Adamo, Mark

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/no98068393
  • Person
  • 1962-

Mark Adamo is an American composer-librettist. He first attracted national attention with his uniquely celebrated début opera, Little Women, after the Alcott novel. Introduced by Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and revived there in 2000, Little Women is one of the most frequently performed American operas of the last fifteen years, with more than 135 national and international engagements in cities ranging from New York to London, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Adelaide, Perth, Mexico City, Brugges, Banff, Calgary, and Tokyo. While Adamo's principal work continues to be for the opera house, over the past five years, he has ventured not only into chamber music but also into symphonic and choral composition.

He began his education in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where, as a freshman in the Dramatic Writing Program, he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music Degree cum laude in composition in 1990 from the Catholic University of America. He and his spouse, the composer John Corigliano, divide their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Adamo, Salvatore, 1943-

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/no2001031211
  • Person
  • 1943-

Born in Sicily, the international singer and composer, Salvatore Adamo, was the son of a well-digger; the family moved to Belgium when he was three years old. As a child, one of seven children, he was stricken with meningitis and confined to bed for several years. From this inauspicious beginning, he became the best-selling Belgian musician of all time, singing mostly in French but also in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese and Turkish. His career was launched when he won the top prize in Paris of a 1960 Radio-Luxembourg competition. He was soon famous, but his father drowned in 1966 and was thus not able to witness the subsequent peak of his son’s celebrity. His albums and singles have sold over 100 million copies. For a while in the 1980s, his emotional vocal style went out of fashion but in the 1990s his career revived due to a wave of nostalgia. In 1993, he was appointed Belgium’s honorary UNICEF ambassador, a post that involved worldwide travel. In 1998, he made an album commenting upon racism and Bosnia’s civil war. In 2001, he was knighted by King Albert II of Belgium, with the noble title of “Ridder.” The following year he was named Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.

Adams, Ann

  • Person
  • active 1834-1837

Ann Adams appears to have been a Wesleyan Protestant living in Montreal, who at some point was employed sewing and may have lived in Saint Charles. She had at least two children.

Adams, Annmarie

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/nr95042042
  • Person

Educated as an architect and architectural historian at UC Berkeley, Adams is jointly appointed in McGill University’s School of Architecture and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (U Minn Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (UTP, 2000). Recent awards include the Faculty of Engineering’s Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (2016) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Media (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

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