Choral music--British Columbia

A concerted effort : songs from St. George's Junior School concerts (1969-1970)

AAAC3119
Item
1969-1970 [date recorded]

SUMMARY: Songs from St. George's Junior School concerts, 1969-1970, featuring: St. George's Junior School Choir, piano and conducted by Mr. F. Carter, produced by G.B. Nixon.

A Kitimat Christmas 1975

AAAC2823
Item
1975 [date published]

Part of B.C. music collection

Alan MacMillan radio broadcast collection

PR-2245
Collection
[195-]

The collection consists of audio disc aircheck recordings of musical performances on radio programs broadcast by CBU (CBC Vancouver) in the early-to-mid-1950s. The programs heard include "Dixieland Jazz", "Jazz Workshop", "Leicester Square", "Nightspot", "Opportunity Knocks", and "Radio Rhythm".

MacMillan, Alan

Alert Bay Indians, 1944

AAAB3106
Item
1944-11-13 [date recorded]

Part of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation collection

RECORDED: Alert Bay (B.C.), 1944-11-13 SUMMARY: Stories by Charlie Noel: 1) "Origin of the Nimpkish Tribe"; <2mn 32s>; 2) "Ee-Shak-Amee"; <45s>; 3) "Two-Headed Snake"; <45s>; 4) Reciting of names of Indian tribes by Charlie Noel; <37s>; 5) Greetings (in native dialect) from native people of British Columbia by Charlie Noel with translation by Dick Halhed, announcer; <42s>; 6) Comments by M. S. Todd, Indian agent; <1mn 44s>; 7) Singing of anthems by choir in native dialect; <8mn>; 8) Singing of "Onward Christian Soldiers" by choir; <1mn 1s>; 9) Performance of "Colonel Bogey March" by brass band; <7mn>; 10) Singing of "O Canada" by total assembly; <1mn 16s>. Examples of different native dialects by Unidentified speakers, <3mn 20s>. Interview of Arthur Shaughnessy, totem pole carver, by Dick Halhed, announcer, <5mn 30s>. Interview of Peter Kelly, United Church Minister, by Dick Halhed, announcer, <3mn>. Sounds from native dances. <28mn>. Story by Dan Cramner, "Origin of the Nimpkish Tribe", <15mn>. Song by August Jack, <4mn>. Sound from a drum, <3mn>, about native people, Nimpkish Indian Reservation -- Alert Bay; health, tuberculosis, among native people.

Angelus Vocal Ensemble with Catherine McEwen

AAAC1764
Item
1934

Part of Will Reeder radio broadcast collection

SUMMARY: SIDE 1 & 2: Songs performed by the Angelus Vocal Ensemble with Catherine McEwen. Amateur off-air recording.;

Bach Choir

T4303:0627
Item
[1975]

Part of Don Mowatt fonds

SUMMARY: This episode is entitled "Bach Choir". No content details are available.

Beth Israel Choir

SD0232:0013
Item
[195-]

Part of Alan MacMillan radio broadcast collection

Burrard Choir : [no. 3 & 4]

AAAC2184
Item
[195-?] [date produced]

Part of CKWX Radio fonds

SUMMARY: Master.;

Burrard Male Choir

AAAC1964
Item
[194-?] [date produced]

Part of CKWX Radio fonds

SUMMARY: The Burrard Choir performs "Jolly Roger" and "Lost Chord".;

CBC week in Victoria : Amity Singers

AAAB9970
Item
1982-10-28 [date recorded]

Part of Norman Newton fonds

SUMMARY: This episode was recorded during CBC Week In Victoria, October 28, 1982, at the McPherson Playhouse. Bruce Pullen conducts the Amity Singers in a program that includes works by Dvorak, Debussy, Somers; and Rorem.;

Choir and Instrumental Group

AAAC2829
Item
[1973] [date published]

Part of B.C. music collection

SUMMARY: Sacred and secular songs.;

Choir fragments

AAAC1754
Item
[193-?]

Part of Will Reeder radio broadcast collection

SUMMARY: SIDE 1 & 2: Fragments of choir performance(s), including "Love's Old Sweet Song". No date or broadcast information. Amateur off-air recording.;

Choral music -- unidentified

AAAC3043
Item
[19--] [date recorded]

Part of Lorraine Straw fonds

SUMMARY: x;

Christ is risen - part 1 ; Conclusion

AAAC3103
Item
1951-03 [date recorded]

Part of B.C. music collection

SUMMARY: Performance of a choral work composed by Tom F. Beresford. Two copies.

Christmas carol sing

AAAC1659
Item
[1964?] [date published]

Part of B.C. music collection

Christmas with the Newcombe Glee Club

SD0262
Item
[ca. 1973]

Part of B.C. music collection

The item consists of a published phonodisc (record album). It contains recordings of Christmas carols, sung by the Newcombe Glee Club around 1973.

CKCD Sacred Choir

AAAC1732
Item
1934

Part of Will Reeder radio broadcast collection

SUMMARY: CKCD Sacred Choir program with Pat Higginbothem announcing; Bill Hassell announcing dog food commercials; Old Time Orchestra. Amateur off-air recording.;

CKXR . . . presents the Shuswap Singers

AAAC1202
Item

Part of B.C. music collection

Comfort ye my people, every valley - Messiah (Handel) ; O thou that tellest (chorus) ; Recitatives, glory to God - Messiah (Handel)

AAAC3300
Item
[19--] [date recorded]

Part of Charles Findlater fonds

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Comfort ye my people, every valley - Messiah (Handel). SIDE 2: O thou that tellest (chorus) ; Recitatives, glory to God - Messiah (Handel).;

Commonwealth friends Belfast - 1957 ; Tell me what master hand

AAAB7641
Item
[19--] [date recorded]

Part of Charles Findlater fonds

SUMMARY: A label on the original box contains a photo and the words "Commonwealth Friends, Belfast - 1957". It does not seem that this is a concert recording, not that it was recorded in Belfast. It is of high quality, but there are several "drop-outs" on this particular tape. Duplicates of parts of this tape can be found on T4347:0004 - 4347:0006.

Cym Rhondda ; Bless this house ; Where the bee sucks ; Come again sweet love ; The gardener

AAAC3303
Item
[19--] [date recorded]

Part of Charles Findlater fonds

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Cym Rhondda ; Bless this house. SIDE 2: Where the bee sucks ; Come again sweet love ; The gardener.;

Doran Blaghorne interview

T4382:0007 track 2
Item
[19--]

Part of British Columbia Council of the Girl Guides of Canada fonds

RECORDED: [location unknown], [19--] SUMMARY: Choral renditions of songs "Little Liza Jane" and "This is the Cariboo", followed by a reading by Miss Blaghorne about guiding in the 1950s onward, and an afterword by Mrs. Bessie May.

Doukhobor Choir

AAAB8801
Item
1977-03-12 [date recorded]

Part of Jurgen Hesse fonds

SUMMARY: This tape is presumably the unedited recording of a Doukhobor Choir that is heard in the completed program for the "Spectrum" series. See T4230:0238 - 0240.;

Elgar Choir at RCAF base Zweibrucken

AAAB7637
Item
1961

Part of Charles Findlater fonds

SUMMARY: A complete program, recorded at 3(F) Wing RCAF Skyway Theatre in Zweibrucken, Germany, and broadcast live.;

Erwin and Leona Koslowski interview

AAAB4471
Item
[1983-07?] [date recorded]

Part of German Canadians in British Columbia collection

CALL NUMBER: T3880:0009 track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Edelweiss Club, German-Canadian Culltural Society, Victoria RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1983-07?] SUMMARY: Mr. Koslowski, former president of the Harmonie Choir of the Edelweiss Club.;

CALL NUMBER: T3880:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Edelweiss Club, German-Canadian Culltural Society, Victoria RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1983-07?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Koslowski (continued); conductors of Harmonie; merging of the Harmonie with the Edelweiss Club in 1970-71; programs and operettas; language problems; other groups in BC; musical backgroun;d of the Koslowski family. TRACK 2: The Rheingold Choir of 1954; connections of the Harmonie Choir with the Vancouver Alpen Club; north Pacific; singing federation; statutes; remembering the beginnin;g of Harmonie; North Pacific Singing Federation; song festivals and programs; children's choir; Centennial Singing Festival in 1967.;

Evensong for All Saint's Day, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver