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Maureen Forrester Fonds A donation of scores was made to the Laurier Library. Many of the scores received were catalogued for the main library collection and became the Maureen Forrester Collection. Material which was fragile, had notations, or other unique characteristics became Wilfrid Laurier University Archives & Special Collection‟s Maureen Forrester Fonds. Extent: 61 cm of textual records Date: 1894-1984 1 Personal 1.3 Correspondence 1.4 Publications, not scores, some with dedications to Maureen Forrester. 1.4.1 Fifty paintings / Sam Zacks, 1984. Inscription : To Maureen with love Ayala Z.A. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS N 5230 C22Z33 SC3769.2 1.4.2 Measures for measures : a collection of verses culled from the anecdotage of a music lover / Victor Mintz, 1984. Inscription : To Maureen Forrester, If these verses give you a chuckle or two than they will have partially redeemed a long outstanding debt. Sincerely, Victor Mintz. 1.4.3 Melos : zeitschrift fur neue musik January 1948, April 1948 2 Scores Ahlstrom, David 2.2.95 3 German songs for contralto and orchestra Poems by George Trakl. 3 copies Archer, Violet 2.1.76 April weather Poem by Amy Bissett England 2.1.1 The beggar speaks : for solo voice and piano forte Poem by Vachel Lindsay 2.1.75 Cradle song Poem by Amy Bissett England 2.1.2 First snow 2 copies 2.1.77 Forty-second psalm : for dramatic mezzo soprano and piano, 1959 3 copies 2.1.3 Four Canadian folksongs Includes correspondence from Violet Archer to Maureen Forrester, January 15, 1959 2.1.4 Green rain Includes correspondence from Violet Archer to Maureen Forrester, November 6, 1971 2.1.5 The gulls : for medium voice and piano Poem by John Gould Fletcher 2.1.6 Irradiations : no. 18 Poem by John Gould Fletcher, 3 copies 2.1.7 Storm : a song for medium voice and piano Poem by Wildah Morris 2.1.8 Train at night 2.1.9 The twenty-third psalm, 1952 Two copies Arne, T.A. 2.2.113 Come away death : sung by the clown form Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4 Ed. by Percy Young 2.2.114 Ere you can say : sung by Ariel from The Tempest IV, I Ed. by Percy Young. 2 copies Bach, E.M. 2.2.38 Uber dei finsternis kurz vor den tode Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 2.2.40 Wie? Schonster? Den mein herze liebt Arranged by Arne Dormsgaard, 1954 Bach, J. S. 2.2.48 Ausgewählte Arien für Alt 2.2.47 Komm, susser tod Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 2.2.34 Liebster herr Jesu, wo bleibst du so lange Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 2.2.39 Vergiss mein night Arranged by Aren Dorumsgaard, 1954 Bantock, Granville 2.1.48 Sappho : nine fragments for contralto, 1906 Words selected by Helen F. Bantock SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1614 B225S3 SC3767 Beaudin, Jean-Philippe 2.1.13 Corolles o fleurs Poem by Gaston Miron 2.1.14 Villanelle d‟automne, 1974 Poem by James Joyce, Ecrit sur la commission de Mr. M. Sinelnikoff Beethoven, Ludwig von 2.1.49 Der Kuss : op. 128 2.2.36 Funeral march in honor of Daniel Webster Berkeley, Lennox 2.1.50 Four poems of St. Theresa of Avila : for contralto and string orchestra Poems translated by Arthur Symons SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 2103.3 B46P6 SC3768 Bohm 2.2.37 Bringet mienen herrn aur ruh Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 2.2.44 Geh ein, mein leib, in diene kammer Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 Bonet, Narcis 2.2.105 Nit d‟abril Joan Maragall Bouchard, Victor 2.1.12 Margotton va-t-a-l‟eau Brahms, Johannes 2.1.52 Ausgewaehlte Lieder SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M 1620 B82 1889 SC3744 2.2.35 German folksongs, book 4, 1894 2.2.9 Quartette Branscombe, Gena 2.2.67 Across the blue Aegean Sea : song for low voice 2.1.53 Blow softly, maple leaves, 1945 Signed by composer : To Maureen Forrester with the appreciation and good wishes of Gena Branscombe 2.2.66 Coventry‟s choir 2.2.68 Gift at parting : song for low voice with accompaniment for piano Britten, Benjamin 2.1.43 Midnight on the great western From Winter words 2.1.44 Proud songsters From Winter words SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1627.B875 F6 1943 SC4635 2.2.125 Serenade for tenor solo, horn and strings, op. 31 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1614 B863 op.31 1944 SC4637 Title page signed by accompanist, John Newmark 2.2.127 Seven sonnets of Michelangelo : op. 22 : set to music for tenor voice and piano SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1621 B86 op.22 1943 SC4639 Cover signed by accompanist, John Newmark 2.2.123 Folk songs arrangements for voice and piano : v. 1 British Isles Cover signed by accompanist, John Newmark 2.2.128 Folk songs arrangements for voice and piano : v. 2 France; v, 3 British Isles, high voice; v. 5 British Isles SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1627.B875 F62 SC4640 Vol. 2-3 signed by accompanist, John Newmark 2.2.129 Folk song arrangements : medium voice : v. 1 British Isles; v. 2 France. V. 3 missing SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M1627.B875 F64 SC4641 Cover signed by Maureen Forrester 2.2.130 Canticle I : my beloved is mine and I am his : Cant. II. 16, op. 40 : for high voice and piano SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M2113 B75 op.40 1949 SC4642 Cover signed by accompanist, John Newmark 2.2.131 Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac : op. 51, for alto, tenor and piano SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M2019.3 B75 op.51 1953 SC4643 Cover signed by accompanist, John Newmark Brown, Mary Jo 2.1.10 Song of the mad one 2 copies 2.1.11 Warm is the wind! Dedicated to Ernst E. Schweitzer Cimara, Pietro 2.1.37 Fiocca la neve Giovanni Pascoli Cook, Gerald 2.1.15 A draught of Lewis Carroll 2.2.64 God is a God 2.2.71 Interplay : theme and several variations 2.1.40 Oh yes 2.1.16 Ruth to Naomi Text by Ben Morse 2.2.63 Wake snake John La Touche Corner 2.2.43 Ein neues andachtiges kindelwiegen Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 Cortese, Luigi 2.1.47 “Salmo VIII” : op.21, 1943 Coulthard, Jean 2.2.70 Two night songs, 1960 Includes correspondence Cruger, Johann 2.2.50 Auf, Aug, mien herz, mit freuden! Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard Daunais, Lionel 2.2.119 L„Astronome 2.2.118 La belle hirondelle 2.2.120 Chanson de Mathilda 2.2.122 Le dit du Bergerot Paul Fort 2.2.121 L‟Elephant 2.2.117 L‟Innocente Debussy, Claude 2.1.28 Voici que le printemps Words by P. Bourget Dougherty, Celius 2.2.102 The nightingale has a lyre of gold W.E. Henley 2.2.108 O by the by E.E. Cummings 2.2.97 Sonnet E.E. Cummings 2.2.101 The taxi Amy Lowell 2.2.98 Thy fingers make early flowers E.E. Cummings 2.2.99 Until and I heard E.E. Cummings 2.2.100 Whispers of heavenly death Walt Whitman 2.2.103 The winds Swinburne Duchow, Marvin 2.1.51 Three songs of the holocaust, 1977 Includes correspondence and newspaper clippings about the composer, and programme. Eckhardt-Grammette, S.C. 2.2.94 Lagrima Words by F. Eckhardt. 2 copies Franck 2.2.49 Auf, auf zu gottes lob Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 Frank, Paul 2.1.17 Des Abends 2.1.18 Sommernacht 2.1.19 Wiegentied, 1943 Freylinghausen 2.2.41 Es ist vollbracht Arranged by Arne Dorumsgaard, 1954 Gascoigne, Margaret 2.1.54 Chansons of old French Canada, 1920 Script by James Kennedy, Illustrations by Ethel Seath Gelbrun, Artur 2.1.74 Berceuses paroles de Simone Pasche, 1944 George, Stefan 2.2.104 Ruhig bewegt : nicht schleppen Erich Zweifen Gethen, Felix E. 2.2.51 Seven songs from the Greek anthology for baritone and piano Includes correspondence Goodwin, Julian 2.1.78 Carols of Wonderland : a song cycle for low voice and piano, 1972 Poems by Lewis Carroll Hahn, Reynaldo 2.1.55 Chansons grises Handel, G. F. 2.1.56 Messiah : an oratorio SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M 2003 H14M23 189-? SC3742 Hauseeger , Sigmund von 2.1.30 Drei gesange Haydn, Joseph 2.1.57 The creation : an oratorio SPECIAL COLLECTIONS M 2003 H42S46 1863? SC3765 Hoiby, Lee 2.2.112 Continual conversations with a silent man : in memoriam of Tennessee Williams Wallace Stevens 2.2.109 Contrary thesis (2) Wallace Stevens 2.2.110 Floral decorations for bananas Wallace Stevens 2.2.111 Gubbinal Wallace Stevens Hundley, Richard 2.2.65 For your delight : a romance Robert Louis Stevenson 2.2.69 Maiden snow Kenneth Patchen 2.1.26 Sweet Suffolk owl, 1981 Jacoby, Hanod 2.2.74 3 songs for contralto, viola and piano Text by R. M. Rilke Janacek, Leos 2.1.88 The diary of a lost one Joachim, Otto 2.2.73 March : contralto and piano Words by Ian Clark Keefer, Euphrosyne 2.2.1 Song cycle II : for medium voice and piano, 1970 Harold Monro Kemp, Walter 2.1.21 Meditations and commentaries on Ewing‟s “Jerusalem the Golden” for two unaccompanied choirs Composed for the bicentennial of the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia; commissioned by the University and premiered at its Bicentennial Concert, November 26, 1989, by the King’s College Choir and the St. Pauls Singers of Halifax, conducted by the composer Langsam 2.1.20 Im spatboot Letendre, Conrad 2.1.58 L‟Oeuvre l‟Orgue, t.I –t.III Tome 1 includes penned autograph: 19 novembre 1984.