Waltzing: Rehearsing with Mervin Gelfand and the orchestra
"He Was Only a Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing" or "He Sure Made Montcalm Down" - Dick Howard Farley (Tax Collector), Lucille Stern (Little Red Riding Hood), Bill Hymovitch (Montcalm, prone at foreground), Al DeRosso (French Sargeant, prone at the rear of stage).
Grenadier Girls: Hughie Capra (far left), Adeline Ciment, Lala Halpin, Ruth Hersh, Marjorie Mortimer, Jean Somerville (third from right)
"Taking Ten"- a breather during rehearsals. Claire Katze (actor) (upper left), Lorna Moore (singer) (at Claire's left), Lucille Stern (lower left), Fred Kerner (at the keyboard)
Terminal Taps, from lecft to right: Peggy Butler, Jean Somerville, Helen Pearson, Dorothy Marshall, Winnie Cook, Pearl Nebach
The Johnny Reno fonds consists of two photographs of Percy Ferguson's Victory Serenadors, including Oscar Peterson, at Canadian Pacific's Rosemont Hall in Montreal in 1943.
Reno, JohnnyThe Bob Redmond fonds provides information about Robert Redmond's life and his career as lead saxophonist with many bands like the Stardusters, the Escorts, and the Johnny Holmes Orchestra. It also provides information about Redmond's experience as a musician during World War II. Furthermore, it includes materials related to the history of Jazz in general and in Montreal in particular, as well as the big-band era in Montreal. The fonds includes several unpublished novels, poems and other texts written by Bob Redmond.
The fonds contains Redmond’s notes and essays as well as correspondence, sheet music, a scrapbook, clippings, photographs, publicity materials, directories, and books and magazines from Redmond’s library. It also contains audio cassettes, CDs, videocassettes, a DVD and over 300 audio discs
Redmond, RobertThe Maury Kaye fonds consists of arrangements done by Maury Kaye in the 1950s and the 1960s, and contains 106 pieces for piano, bass, and drums. The fonds also contains five sound recordings featuring Maury Kaye playing some of his hit songs.
Kaye, MauryThe fonds provides information on jazz music and musicians in Montreal during the 1930s and 1940s.
The fonds consists of two scrapbooks Joe Bell kept during those years. It contains publicity photographs of orchestras and individual performers, clippings, menus, and cards from various night clubs and ballrooms. The fonds also includes 11 audio discs.
Bell, JoeSiobhan McKenna, the great lady of Irish theatre, as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" reads ultimate destiny on a toothbrush handle, one of a series of portraits of women in the literature of Irish authors exhibited in "Here Are Ladies".
Siobhan McKenna, the great lady of Irish theatre, as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" reads ultimate destiny on a toothbrush handle, one of a series of portraits of women in the literature of Irish authors exhibited in "Here Are Ladies".
Siobhan McKenna, great lady of Irish theatre, on stage performing in "Here Are Ladies", a series of portraits of women in the literature of Irish authors. She played to an enthusiastic audience which packed the F.C.Smith Auditorium.
Siobhan McKenna, great lady of Irish theatre, in "Here Are Ladies", a series of portraits of women in the literature of Irish authors. She played to an enthusiastic audience which packed the F.C.Smith Auditorium.
Italian theatre at Loyola College. Possible performance of Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy LA LOCANDIERA, directed by Loyola College professor Carmine Di Michele with a cast of students.
Italian theatre at Loyola College. Possible performance of Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy LA LOCANDIERA, directed by Loyola College professor Carmine Di Michele with a cast of students.
The Visit, put on by the Actors Company at Loyola College. From left to right, Grant Lowe, Gary Cosgrove and Sandra Smith.
The Visit, put on by the Actors Company at Loyola College. From left to right, Joe Diorio, David Pantel, Larry Schwartz, Sandra Smith and Doug Feggans.
The Tempest, held in Loyola College. Lynn Forest as Miranda.
The Tempest, held in Loyola College. Lynn Forest as Miranda.
The Tempest, held in Loyola College. From left to right, Maxim Mazumbar as Prospero and Lynn Forest as Miranda.
The Tempest, held in Loyola College. From left to right, Maxim Mazumbar, Lynn Forest and Alex Newell.
Rehearsal of Oliver, held in Loyola College. From left to right, Chno Levan as Bill Sykes, Maxim Mazumbar as Fagin and Carol McCormick as Nancy.
Rehearsal of Oliver, held in Loyola College. Directed by Maxim Mazumdar (holding script), the Artful Dodger (Edda Gburek) and Oliver (Heather Stanley). David Paltiel, playing one of the Fagan's boys, sits on the stage.
Rehearsal of Antigone by the Loyola Chameleon Theatre cast members Scott Phelan as Creon and John Banks at Haimon.
Rehearsal of Antigone by the Loyola Chameleon Theatre cast members John Banks (left) as Haimon and Scott Phelan as Creon.
Maxim Mazudar as Orlando in an excerpt from “As You Like It”, one of the scenes in the play “The Smallest Unit is a Pair”, held at Loyola College.
Loyola Summer Drama Institute. From left to right, Jan Muszynski and Gabriel Jancowicz rehearse a scene from Caution: Avoiding Elephants May be Dangerous to Your Health, one of two original shows members of the six week Summer Institute are presenting in Loyola's F.C. Smith Auditorium.
Audience at the Margaret Atwood poetry reading session at Loyola College.
Poet Margaret Atwood, guest speaker at the Loyola College Poetry reading series.
The fonds documents Yves Charbonneau's musical career until 1975 on the one hand, and his photographic exploitations during the 1980s on the other hand. It gives an insight into the organization of the Quatuor du Jazz libre du Québec (1967-1975), the Val-David Artistic Colony (1970), the Ferme du Petit Québec libre (1970-1973) and l'Amorce (1972-1974), while highlighting the political dimension of these jazz-related initiatives.
The fonds is divided into the following series :
F033/A – Jazz libre du Québec
F033/B – Political newspapers
F033/C - Visual arts studies
The fonds contains legal documents, press clippings, leaflets, and notes concerning the activities of free music in Petit Québec libre and in l’Amorce. The fonds also contains political newspapers collected by Yves Charbonneau during the 1970s, as well as photographs related to Charbonneau’s visual arts studies, including portraits, landscape photography, and still-lifes.