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Department of Music fonds

  • RG 2047
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1982

This fonds contains files regarding curriculum and courses, equipment and resources, annual reports and other administrative duties. Also included is material relating to concerts, recitals, guest artists and lecturers, and workshops sponsored by the department. A separate accession contains correspondence, memoranda, and specifications pertaining to the department's move to the Education Building (1974-1976).

University of Saskatchewan. College of Arts and Science. Department of Music

Marguerita Spencer fonds

  • MG 104
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1987, predominant 1923-1987

This fonds contains personal correspondence with family, colleagues, and publishers; prose and music compositions; material pertaining to provincial music associations, festivals, performances, and recitals; etc.

Spencer, Marguerita

C.A. and Eileen Wheaton Collection

  • MG 334
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1975

This collection is of early hymnals and sheet music, collected and used by the Wheatons.

Wheaton, Cecil Albert

Isabelle Mills fonds

  • MG 151
  • Fonds
  • 1907-2021 (inclusive) ; 1960-1990 (predominant)

The fonds includes records documenting Isabelle Mills’ career as a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, and a teacher at Brandon College. Her strong interest in and promotion of Canadian music is reflected in a broad collection of musical scores, including relatively early sheet music; correspondence relating to the Canadian Music Centre; records relating to courses taught and Canadian music concerts organized; and other material including a variety of general information about Canadian music and composers. Her role as director of the Quance Chorus at the University of Saskatchewan is documented by a fairly complete set of concert programs and a selection of audio tapes of concerts. There are also records relating to church music (including a variety of United Church of Canada hymn books); records relating to Canadian music; musical scores including piano, vocal and choral music. There is also material relating to her research and extension/community service activities, including her lecture tour to the Ukraine and the Buxtehude/Scheidt Festival and Conference; material relating to her role as Assistant Dean; and other material including personal memorabilia and administrative correspondence.

Mills, Isabelle

Bob Fink fonds

  • MG 616
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2017 (inclusive) ; 1976-2005 (predominant)

This fond contains mostly textual material, specifically copies of the books and articles Bob Fink wrote over his lifetime, mainly in regards to the evolution and origin of music and other topics related to music. The other half of the collection is copies of sheet music which he composed, mainly under the series name “Some New Old Music” as well as the opera Lysistrata. It has been published individually as well as in collections. There are also some recordings on a variety of media (CD, cassette, and reel to reel) which appear to contain recordings of Bob Fink playing his compositions.

Bob Fink kept an extensive website filled with the articles he wrote on a wide variety of topics. It also
contains links to articles he collected that were of interest to him and related to his areas of study. It
also contains MIDI’s of the music he composed. You can access the archived version of it here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/org-728/20180716205028/http://www.greenwych.ca/

Fink, Robert

Henry T. Abley

  • MG 457
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1994

The collection includes original hand-written musical scores; photocopies, mimeographs and fax copies of original scores (often with hand-written notes or annotations) composed by Abley; lyric sheets; printed scores – some on a home-printer and coil-bound. In addition to the original musical compositions, this fonds contains memorabilia and information about Henry Abley, his career, recitals and performances such as: newspaper clippings, information pamphlets, CBC radio programme information, choir contact lists, articles and scores written about/by Canadian [colleagues], concert programmes, personal and professional correspondence, church programs and newspaper clippings related to his career.

Abley, Henry T.

J.V. Hicks fonds

  • MG 194
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1999 , predominant 1985-1997

This fonds documents the literary and musical activities of John Hicks. It includes extensive incoming and outgoing correspondence with writers, publishers, editors, friends and colleagues, as well as a large quantity of unpublished poetry and prose.

Hicks, John Victor, 1907-1999

Steven Ross Smith fonds

  • MG 253
  • Fonds
  • 1968-2016

The material in this fonds documents the literary and performance career of Steven Ross Smith.

Smith, Steven Ross

Murray Adaskin fonds

  • MG 298
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2000

This fonds contains materials relating to the life and work of Murray Adaskin.

Adaskin, Murray

Jean Ruryk Shepherd Collection

  • MG 425
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1944

This collection contains the letters written by Mac Hone to Jean Ruryk from ca. 1939-1944, together with photographs primarily of the Lindner family. The letters discuss news of mutual friends from the Emma Lake Art Camp; theatre, music, ballet, movies and books; Mac’s war work (welding); etc.

Hone, John Ramsey McGregor, 1920-2007 (artist, teacher)

Bob Moyer fonds

  • MG 456
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1937]-2005 (inclusive); 1950-1996 (predominant).

This fonds contains materials primarily relating to Moyer’s musical career. It includes reel-to-reel tapes of sessions, live night club performances, dances and other concerts, studio recordings, and interviews. In addition there are numerous early vinyl recordings, posters, memorabilia, and some personal biographical materials.

Moyer, Robert Lloyd

Ernest Albert Howes fonds

  • MG 525
  • Fonds
  • 1934

Typewritten copies of E. Howe’s three radio talks on the Ontario Rural Folk Lore and the war songs, shanty songs, and farmer songs of the 1880’s and 1890’s.

Howes, Ernest Albert

David Kaplan fonds

  • MG 282
  • Fonds
  • 1744-2014

This fond documents the life and career of David Kaplan. It contains material related to his family, academic and teaching career and community involvement.

Kaplan, David Leon

Fleming Family fonds

  • MG 645
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1890s-2016 (inclusive). – 1918-1990s (predominant).

This fonds contains the original musical scores and arrangements, and related teaching material, programs, posters and recital material from multiple generations of the Fleming family, primarily those by Arthur Evelyn Fleming (1864-1922), Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 – 1976), William Arthur Fleming (1933-2016), and Robert’s son Berkeley Fleming. Georgina Gunn Fleming, Robert’s wife Margaret Pound, Robert may have been the most well-known as a composer, pianist, organist, choirmaster and teacher; but William (“Bill”), a teacher-librarian who taught in Regina throughout his career, was also an acclaimed singer and choirmaster, and studied at the University of Saskatchewan under Murray Adaskin, and Frances James Adaskin. The fonds contains musical works by others in a variety of musical genres; as well as family correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia.

T.Y. and Judith Rice Henderson Performing Arts Collection

  • MG 248
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1974]-2017

Collection consists of programs from theatre productions, but also music and dance and some special events. The collection primarily documents the performing arts in Saskatoon and area - notably Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon Gateway Players and the Saskatoon Symphony - and includes representation from a number of independent theatre companies, some no longer in operation. Internationally, there is an extensive set of programs from the United Kingdom, most extensively from London, Cambridge, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Henderson, T.Y. (Professor of Philosophy)

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