Tag Archives: music

Love in the Archives: a #loveheritage Valentine's Day twitter wrap-up

15 February 2012affection, airport, Arpin family, cats, children, correspondence, courtship, dogs, Elvis Presley, family, Greece, Holland, horses, Immigrants, Italy, Lennox family, letters, lost pet, love, Malton Airport, marriage, music, pet show, photographs, reunion, Scotland, Toronto Telegram, train station, Union Station, Woodbine Racetrack, World War IIAnna St.Onge

Yesterday, the archives participated in a Twitter event hosted by @AskArchivists. Using Valentine's Day as a lens in which to interpret our holdings, archives across the globe tweeted about their holdings.
For more information about the #loveheritage event, see Ask Archivists' blog here.
For our primary post for Valentine's Day, see our feature on love songs from [...]

Hitting milestone with the John Arpin Sheet Music Collection: 1000 down, 139,000 more to go!

9 February 2012News, Sheetmusicfemale composers, jazz, Kathryn L. Widmer, Maxixe, music, one step, rag, ragtime, sheet music, Spanish FluAnna St.Onge

Today was an exciting milestone for two of our student assistants working on inventorying sheet music from the John Arpin Archives. In collaboration with librarians and staff from Bibliographic Services, the 1000th piece of sheet music was entered into the cataloguing system. It won't appear for another few weeks in the online catalogue, but we [...]

John Arpin Collection Launch and Celebration

3 October 2011Family papers, Newscelebration, donor recognition, jazz, John Arpin, music, ragtime, sheet musicAnna St.Onge

This Sunday afternoon the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections participated in a celebration marking the official launch of the John Arpin Archives and Sheet Music Collection and the naming of a practice room in the Music Department in Accolade East (Room 245 to be precise) after the late composer, collector and producer John Arpin.
Dr. [...]

Special Collections Highlight : Hymnal Collection

29 August 2011Rare BooksHymnals, music, Rare Books, religious musicAnna St.Onge

Through the Internet Archive, a selection of items from our collection of early 19th and 20th Century hymnals from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections have been digitized.
A listing of the 23 digitized items can be found here: http://bit.ly/lxcZun.
A full listing of the over 100 items in this collection can be found here: http://bit.ly/js4DnY
One [...]

Mariposa: Fifty Years of Making Music Exhibit Launch

8 July 2011Archives & Special Collections, Exhibits, institutions and organizations, News, Photographsbluegrass, early jazz, exhibit, folk music, folklore, Mariposa Folk Festival, Mariposa Folk Foundation, Market Gallery, music, Orillia, St. Lawrence Market, Toronto, world musicAnna St.Onge

This weekend marks the annual return of folk music enthusiasts (not a few of them York alumni) to the town of Orillia for the Mariposa Folk Festival. To mark the fifty years that the festival has been running, York University Libraries, which holds the festival records, has curated a new exhibit of historical photographs, [...]

International Day of Dance

29 April 2011Archives & Special Collections, News, Personal papersBarbados, Brazilian Carnival Ball, Caribana, choreographers, dance, dance companies, dancers, dancing, Immigrant Club of Toronto, independence, International Dance Day, Maureen Marques Dance Group, Mon Sheong Foundation Home for the Aged, music, Orillia, Toronto Island, ZaireAnna St.Onge

In recognition of International Dance Day, here are a selection of our archival holdings from choreographers, dance companies, dance critics, dancers and organizations that have significant content related to dance.

F0172 Canadian Association for Professional Dance Organizations (CAPDO) fonds
F0199 Canadian Dance Festival fonds
F0285 Centre for Experimental Art & Communication fonds
F0198 Dance Umbrella Of Ontario fonds
F0142 Paul [...]