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Mona Bates
Mona Bates (October 31, 1889 – March 29, 1971) was a Canadian concert pianist and music instructor. Early life and education Bates was born in Burlington, Ontario to Dr. Frank De Witt Bates and Annabel (nee Grant) Bates. She began playing the piano at fives years of age. She performed in her first public recital two years later. She studied music with J. E. P. Aldous, Edward Fisher, Augustus Stephen Vogt and Viggo Kihl. Bates attended at the Toronto Conservatory of Music as a child and was the youngest student to be named a "First Honour" graduate. She began teaching at the school in 1912. Career Bates met Ernest Hutcheson in 1916 while in New York on Chautauqua. She went on to study with him and work as his assistant at the Juilliard School. During the First World War she played at soldier camps in Canada and the United States. Bates debuted in New York City at Aeolian Hall on April 9, 1920, where she was noted by the '' New York Times'' as receiving "frequent and hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Along with Milton to the north, it forms the western end of the Greater Toronto Area and is also part of the Hamilton metropolitan census area. History Before the 19th century, the area between the provincial capital of York and the township of West Flamborough was home to the Mississauga nation. In 1792, John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, named the western end of Lake Ontario "Burlington Bay" after the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The British purchased the land on which Burlington now stands from the Mississaugas in Upper Canada Treaties 3 (1792), 8 (1797), 14 (1806), and 19 (1818). Treaty 8 concerned the purchase of the Brant Tract, on Burlington Bay which the British granted to Mohawk chief Joseph Brant for his service in the American Revolutionary War. Joseph Brant and his household se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apponyi Family
The Apponyi, also Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, were a prominent and powerful Hungarian family group of the high upper nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose's members remained notable even after the kingdom's dismemberment in the successor states of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. While tracing its origins to the High Middle Ages, the family became prominent in the 18th century with its elevation to the rank of Counts of Nagy-Appony in 1739 and the acquisition of seventeen grand domains between 1760 and 1800. In the last century of the Habsburg monarchy, four of its members received the Order of the Golden Fleece, a total held in a draw among the European nobility by the houses of Esterházy, Batthyány, and Pálffy (4 each). In addition, Albert Apponyi received the Order in 1921 shortly after the end of the monarchy. In addition to this the Apponyi family sat within all Hungarian Kings and then Habsburg private courts which was reserved only for the most powerful and important members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Women Pianists
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1906, the TSO gave regular concerts at Massey Hall until 1982, and since then has performed at Roy Thomson Hall. The TSO also manages the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (TSYO). The TSO's most recent music director was Peter Oundjian, from 2004 to 2018. Sir Andrew Davis, conductor laureate of the TSO, has most recently served as the orchestra's interim artistic director. Gustavo Gimeno is music director of the TSO, since the 2020–2021 season. History The TSO was founded in 1922 as the New Symphony Orchestra, and gave its first concert at Massey Hall in April 1923 with 58 musicians. The first conductor was Luigi von Kunits, and that season there were twenty concerts, as well as a performance at a spring festival.Vyhnak, Carola. "Birth of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra". ''Toronto Star'', 14 June 2015, page A12. In the summer of 1924, the symphony performed at the Canadian Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Yanova
Naomi Yanova Adaskin, better known publicly by her stage name Naomi Yanova and also known by her maiden name Naomi Granatstein and her married names Naomi Adaskin and Naomi Godden, (May 6, 1908 – March 1, 1996) was a Canadian pianist, music educator, music editor, writer on music, and music critic. Life and career Born Naomi Granatstein in Toronto, Yanova began her professional training as a pianist at the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in her native city. After completing her studies at that school, she pursued further education; first at the Toronto College of Music (now The Royal Conservatory of Music) where she was a pupil of Healey Willan, and later the University of Toronto. She also studied under Mona Bates from 1928 through 1938 and with E. Robert Schmitz from 1941 through 1944. Yanova made her debut as a concert pianist at the age of 12 at Massey Hall. She performed under the name Naomi Yanova; taking the name Yanova from the feminine form of her mother's name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Poole
Clifford Poole (1916–2003) was a British-Canadian music teacher, composer, conductor and contributor to music."Clifford Poole" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', by Betty Nygaard King, July 16, 2007 Early life and education Poole was born in Reddish, England near Manchester. Poole's family emigrated to Canada in his early years. Poole studied piano with Mona Bates.Career Poole and Gordon Hallett performed in Toronto and Montreal in the late 1930s as the Poole-Hallett duo; the pair also performed on CBC Radio. Drafted into military service durin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Grudeff
Marian Grudeff (April 18, 1927November 4, 2006) was a Canadian concert pianist music teacher and musical theatre composer of Bulgarian origin. Early life and education Born in Toronto, Ontario,Mel Atkey. Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre'. Dundurn; 30 October 2006. . p. 116. Grudeff studied piano under Mona Bates and performed Liszt's '' Hungarian Fantasy'' with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. Career Grudeff gave her first solo recital at the Eaton Auditorium. She performed extensively in Canada and the United States in the 1940s, and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music from 1948 to 1952. In 1950 she was the musical director of the Toronto theatrical revue ''Spring Thaw''; she continued to be involved with the show during the 1950s and early 1960s, directing, writing songs for the show with Ray Jessel, and playing piano.Later stages: essays in Ontario theatre from the First World War to the 1970s'. University of Toronto Press; 1997. . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Crum (musician)
:'' For American composer George Henry Crumb, see George Crumb.'' George Francis Crum (26 October 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA – 8 September 2007 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) was the first conductor of the National Ballet of Canada and an accomplished pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger. Early life At the age of three, George Crum was brought to Canada. He attended Trinity College School in Port Hope and studied organ and piano with Edmund Cohu from the age of 12 to 16. Studies in piano also took place with Elsie Bennett and Mona Bates in Toronto. Crum made his recital debut at 16 at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. From 1943 to 1947 he later studied theory and orchestration with Barbara Pentland and Ettore Mazzole, and opera coaching and conducting with Herman Geiger-Torel and Nicholas Goldschmidt at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He also served as assistant to Goldschmidt and coach in the opera department. Conducting and career Crum's debut as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Miller Brown
Margaret Miller Brown (April 22, 1903February 15, 1970) was a Canadian classical pianist and music educator. She performed in concert for more than 20 years, touring mostly in Canada and, in 1951, Europe. Concurrently, she taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music for over four decades. She also traveled throughout Canada administering student examinations and adjudicating piano classes for various organizations. Early life and education Margaret Miller Brown was born on April 22, 1903, in Owen Sound, Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Hers was a musical family. She studied piano under Frank Welsman and Mona Bates in Toronto, and under Ernest Hutcheson in New York. Musical career Brown made her professional debut at the Toronto Conservatory of Music on March 1, 1927. She debuted in London at Aeolian Hall on June 15, 1936. On June 13, 1940, she premiered Ulric Cole's ''Divertimento'' with the Promenade Symphony Orchestra. She performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a ''Ritter'' (knight) by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt., group=n (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
