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MUSIC DIVISION NUMERICAL LIST OF THE SIR ERNEST MACMILLAN FONDS (MUS 7) PREPARED BY MAUREEN NEVINS NOVEMBER 1992 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION................................................1 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......................................19 MUS 7/A CAREER AND OTHER ACTIVITIES/SUBJECT FILES.......................................23 MUS 7/B CORRESPONDENCE.............................171 B1 Family Correspondence......................173 B2 Correspondence Between ECM and LEM.........175 B3 Personal Correspondence....................179 B4 General Correspondence.....................182 MUS 7/C COMPOSITIONS...............................185 C1 Orchestra..................................187 C2 Choir with Orchestra.......................190 C3 Stage......................................193 C4 Chamber....................................195 C5 Brass Band with Percussion.................197 C6 Organ and Piano............................197 C7 Voice and Choir............................198 C8 Arrangements, Transcriptions...............208 C9 Sketches...................................222 C10 Other......................................223 C11 Scores from Canadian Music Centre (Toronto)..................................224 MUS 7/D WRITINGS...................................229 MUS 7/E PROGRAMMES.................................263 E1 MacMillan as Organist, Pianist, Composer...................................265 E2 MacMillan as Conductor and Guest Conductor..................................266 3 E3 Recitals, Concerts and Orders of Service at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church (Toronto)..................................267 E4 Toronto Symphony Orchestra.................268 E5 Toronto Mendelssohn Choir..................271 E6 Performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion....................................271 E7 Other Programmes...........................271 MUS 7/F SOUND RECORDINGS...........................273 MUS 7/G WRITINGS ABOUT MACMILLAN BY OTHERS.........275 G1 Scrapbooks.................................277 G2 Clippings..................................279 G3 Biographical Notes (Articles from Periodicals)...............................282 MUS 7/H SIR ERNEST MACMILLAN FINE ARTS CLUBS OF CANADA..................................283 H1 Correspondence.............................285 H2 Publications...............................290 H3 Photographs................................290 H4 Scrapbooks.................................290 H5 Clippings..................................293 H6 Other Documents............................294 MUS 7/I PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS...................295 4 MUS 7/J PERSONAL DOCUMENTS.........................311 J1 Biographies, Biographical Notes............313 J2 Report Cards, Examination Results..........313 J3 Examination Papers.........................313 J4 Preparatory Exercises for ARCO, FRCO, B. Mus. and D. Mus. Examinations...........314 J5 Varsity Essays.............................315 J6 Degrees and Diplomas.......................315 J7 Daily Journals.............................316 J8 Other Documents............................317 MUS 7/K AWARDS, HONOURS, TITLES....................319 K1 Honourary Degrees..........................321 K2 Appointments...............................322 K3 Honourary Memberships......................323 K4 Other......................................324 MUS 7/L FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS........................327 L1 Bank Accounts..............................329 L2 Income Tax Returns.........................333 L3 Household Affairs..........................334 L4 Other Documents............................334 MUS 7/M MACMILLAN'S LIBRARY........................337 MUS 7/N MEMORABILIA................................345 NAME INDEX................................................351 FILE CODE INDEX...........................................399 INTRODUCTION Biography 5 Ernest Campbell MacMillan was born on August 18, 1893 in Mimico, Ont. He studied organ with Arthur Blakeley, Alfred Hollins and Frederick Niecks, and piano but briefly with Thérèse Chaigneau. At the age of thirteen, he became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. Between 1908 and 1910, he was organist and choirmaster at Knox Presbyterian Church. In 1911, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and received his Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University. Between 1911 and 1914, MacMillan studied modern history at the University of Toronto. During 1911 and 1912 he served as organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Church in Hamilton. From 1912 to 1914, he played the organ for convocations and other university functions. While studying in Paris during the summer of 1914, MacMillan visited Bayreuth during the Wagner Festival, at which time the War broke out. He was interned at Ruhleben for the remaining war years. In 1915, he was conferred his B.A. degree in absentia from the University of Toronto. MacMillan also composed a choral-orchestral setting to Swinburne's ode England which earned him the degree of Mus.D. from Oxford University in 1918. He returned to Canada in 1919 and was appointed organist and choirmaster at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church until 1925. In 1920, MacMillan became a member of the faculty of the Canadian Academy of Music in Toronto. Between 1926 and 1942, he was Principal of the Toronto Conservatory of Music (now the Royal Conservatory of Music). He served as Dean of the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto from 1927 to 1952. 6 MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra between 1931 and 1956. In 1931 he was elected to Fellowship in the Royal College of Music, the first Canadian to receive this distinction. In 1935, MacMillan was knighted by King George V "for services to music in Canada." He was the only musician resident in the British Dominions ever to receive this honour. By the late 1930s, MacMillan gained fame as a guest conductor in the United States, appearing in such prominent series as the Hollywood Bowl concerts, and with the orchestras of Philadelphia, NBC (New York), Chicago, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. He was the first Canadian to conduct the Detroit Symphony on the "Ford Sunday Evening Hour" broadcasts in 1938. He also conducted on several occasions the BBC Symphony Orchestra and was a frequent guest with Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Between 1942 and 1957 MacMillan was conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. He toured Australia for three months in 1945, conducting some thirty concerts in all continental state capitals. He was invited to visit Brazil in 1946 as guest conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira. From 1959 to 1966, MacMillan conducted the CBC Talent Festival programmes. He was forced to stop for health reasons but, nevertheless, continued his work as commentator and adjudicator for the Festival until 1968. MacMillan was called upon to adjudicate at the principal music festivals in Canada and also at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. 7 In addition to his role as founder of the Canadian Music Council, of which he was president from 1949 to 1966, he served between 1957 and 1963 as a member of the first Canada Council. He also participated in the establishment of the Canadian Music Centre and the Jeunesses musicales du Canada. He was president of the former between 1959 and 1970 and of the latter between 1961 and 1963. MacMillan received honourary degrees from the University of British Columbia (1936), Queen's University (1941), l'Université Laval (1947), McMaster University (1949), the University of Toronto (1953), the University of Rochester (1956), Mount Allison University (1956), the University of Ottawa (1959), l'Université de Sherbrooke (1962), and the Chicago Conservatory College (1971). He was recipient of the University of Alberta National Award in Music (1952), the Richard Strauss Medal (1953), the Canada Council Medal (1964) and posthumously, the Canadian Music Council Medal (1973). He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1969. MacMillan passed away on May 6, 1973. The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and CAPAC established scholarships in his memory. His family founded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation, providing annual awards of up to $10,000 for advanced education at the graduate level, in areas not funded by other granting agencies. BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 BECKWITH, John. "MacMillan, Sir Ernest," in Contemporary Canadian Composers. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 136-40. "MacMillan, Sir Ernest," in Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. 788-91. GOOCH, Bryan N.S. "Sir Ernest MacMillan Fine Arts Club," in Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, p. 1224. WARDROP, Patricia. "Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation," in Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, p. 1224. Presentation of the Fonds Sir Ernest MacMillan's archives were acquired by the Music Division of the National Library of Canada in 1984. At that time, these archives consisted of 1 2 some 39.41 linear metres of documents encompassing the years 1884 to 1983 . They are a testimony of the many facets of MacMillan's brilliant career as conductor, organist, pianist, composer, educator, writer and administrator. Keith MacMillan produced, in 1986, a partial listing of its contents. This work was of value as it provided a guide to the original order of some of the series of documents. The final processing