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Montreal Mendelssohn Choir Collection

  • CA MDML 013
  • Collection
  • approximately 1850 to 1894

The Montreal Mendelssohn Choir Collection comprises several volumes of sheet music from the Choir’s library. The choral folios were compiled and bound into eight volumes at the time of their donation to McGill University in 1895. The estate of D. Torrance Fraser, a former Choir member, donated another four volumes of choral music in 1926 and 1927. Three volumes contain second copies of the pieces from the Choir’s library donated thirty years prior; the fourth volume donated in 1927 contains a number of pieces performed by the Choir but not found in the seven extant volumes from the Choir’s library.

Montreal Mendelssohn Choir

Montreal Mendelssohn Choir donation

The Montreal Mendelssohn Choir donated eight volumes of choral sheet music from the Choir’s library in 1895, a year after the Choir’s dissolution. There are only seven extant volumes in the collection because volume 6 has been missing since at least the 1980s.

Montreal Mendelssohn Choir

D. Torrance Fraser donation

Three volumes of choral sheet music from the Choir’s library were donated to McGill University by the Estate of D. Torrance Fraser, a former choir member, in 1926. The pieces in these three volumes are second copies of those pieces found in Series 1. In 1927, another volume of sheet music from the Choir’s library was donated to McGill University by the Estate of D. Torrance Fraser. This fourth volume (DTF2) contains many pieces not found in the other volumes.

Montreal Mendelssohn Choir

Studies and Analyses

The Studies & Analyses Series contains Schloss’s academic work from his studies at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and under Alban Berg, as well as his analyses of works by other composers. Listed items are grouped by genre: academic studies, analyses of works by other composers, studies of unknown works, transcriptions of melodies, and sketches.

Programmes, 1950s.

Includes signed programme by Charles Reiner and Henryk Szeryng; programme for the ―Grande Concert de Gala‖ of the International Refugee Organization; programmes for solo performances; listings of radio broadcasts; and programmes for collaborative performances with: François D’Albert, Hyman Bress, Alexander Brott, Lotta Brott, Ross Campbell, Leslie Chabay, Louis Charbonneau, Maureen Forrester, Arthur Garami, Rose Goldblatt, Gerrard Jarry, Guy Lachapelle, Arthur LeBlanc, Claudette LeBlanc, Carl Little, Armas Maiste, Anna Malenfant, Raffaele Masella, Janine Micheau, Ruggiero Ricci, Robert Savoie, Meyer Stolow, Henryk Szeryng, Laszlo Varga, and Zvi Zeitlin.

Correspondence 1949-1949

Includes letters from Alfred Cortot (1949), Rudolf Firkusny (1954), Irene Serkin (1957), and Rudolf Serkin (n.d.), and a letter to Sir Ernest MacMillan (1951).

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 and Scripts

The Programmes and Scripts series contains programmes of Donald Mackey and the Church of Messiah and the Renaissance Singers of Montreal in performance; as well as scripts and programming for the following series presented/performed by the Renaissance Singers: CBC broadcasts not in a series, Christian Frontiers, Sunday Chorale and Good Friday.

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