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Marvin Duchow Music Library Charles Reiner Collection
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Charles Reiner Collection

  • CA MDML 001
  • Collection
  • 1924?-2006, predominant 1950-1989

The Charles Reiner Collection consists of correspondence, newspaper reviews and clippings, performance programmes, personal documents including legal material, photographs, writings, published and unpublished music by Reiner and other composers, audio and visual recordings of Reiner and other performers, books, and awards. Of particular interest is correspondence from Rudolf Serkin, Alfred Cortot, and Kurt Waldheim; legal documents from both before and after Reiner’s immigration to Canada; and the extensive collection of programmes and newspaper clippings that document Reiner’s extensive performance career.

Reiner, Charles

Programmes, 1960–64.

Includes invitations and programme for a recital by Henryk Szeryng and Charles Reiner at the Hall of the Americas (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.); programme for a recital by Henryk Szeryng and Charles Reiner at Tanglewood; programme for performance as soloist with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra; programmes for solo performances; listings of radio broadcasts; and programmes for collaborative performances with: Helen Boatwright, Colette Boky, Hyman Bress, Jules Bruyere, Mario Duschene, Maureen Forrester, Arthur Garami, Ann Golden, Sara Hayden, Antonio Janigro, Walter Joachim, Eugene Kash, Philip Maero, Kerstin Meyer, Jean Morin, Joan Patenaude, Guy Plamondon, Svetlana Rajewsky, Heinz Rehfuss, Elinor Ross, Joseph Rouleau, Mary Simmons, Teresa Stratas, Henryk Szeryng, Robert Verebes, Richard Verreau, and the Canadian Piano Quartet.

Programmes, 1970–74.

Includes programmes for performance by Henryk Szeryng and Charles Reiner at the United Nations Concert in honour of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; leaflets and programmes for recitals by Micheline René and Charles Reiner as well as Hyman Bress and Charles Reiner at Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center); programme for recital by Igor Oistrakh and Charles Reiner at Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center); and programmes for collaborative performances with: Otto Armin, Jean Baxtresser, Denis Brott, Lawrence Combs, Edward Culbreath, Michael Edwards, Gaelyne Gabora, Arthur Garami, Dale Hunter, Donelda Hunter, Antonio Janigro, Jacques Lareau, Laurien Laufman, René Masino, Abel Nagytothy-Toth, Igor Oistrakh, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Micheline René, Margarita Schack, Jan Simons, Henryk Szeryng, Gyorgy Terebesi, Robert Verebes, Christine Walevska, the Arthur Garami Chamber Players, the Classical Quartet of Montreal, and Musica Camerata Montreal.

Programmes, Year Unknown.

Includes programmes for solo performances and for collaborative performances with: Janice Baty, Edward Culbreath, Lt. Gérald Gagnier, Arthur Garami, Talmon Herz, Sheng Chin Hsu, Dale Hunter, Donelda Hunter, Bernard Jurgeon, Frank van Koten, Rafael Masella, Bernard Michelin, Igor Oistrakh, Joan Patenaude, Victor Sawa, Henryk Szeryng, Jacques Verdon, Robert Verebes, Richard Verreau, the Canadian Piano Quartet, and the Montreal String Trio.

Trip to Shanghai.

Includes materials related to Reiner’s 1985 trip to teach and perform in Shanghai, at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Includes correspondence, clippings from publications, programmes, autobiographical writings, newspapers, visa application, and travel documents.

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