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Unidentified group of people including Ellen Ballon

Unidentified group of people including Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 10
File
[195-? - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of a group of people congregated in someone's home in front of a piano. "Helmut Blume" is inscribed on the reverse side of the photograph in pencil. Helmut Blume taught piano at McGill University from 1946 and became dean of the Faculty of Music in 1964.

Alberto Jonás : [autographed photograph]

Alberto Jonás : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 4
File
1920

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of Alberto Jonás, addressed to his "wonderfully talented pupil," Ellen Ballon.

Heitor Villa Lobos and Arminda Villa Lobos in New York

Heitor Villa Lobos and Arminda Villa Lobos in New York

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 21
File
May 12, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains photograph of Arminda and Heitor Villa Lobos, signed by Villa Lobos with dialogue between the two people pictured written in French.

Chaim Weizmann : [photograph]

Chaim Weizmann : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 31
File
[192-?] - [1952]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one photograph of Chaim Weizmann, the founder of the State of Israel.

Martin Jones : [autographed photograph]

Martin Jones : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 33
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of Martin Jones, inscribed to Ellen Ballon.

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 3
File
1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Leonard Bernstein : [autographed photograph]

Leonard Bernstein : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1934

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Jacob Epstein : [autographed photograph]

Jacob Epstein : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 9
File
[194-? - 195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of the American-British sculptor Jacob Epstein standing beside one of his sculptures.

Ernest Ansermet : [autographed photograph]

Ernest Ansermet : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1949

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

John Finley : [autographed photograph]

John Finley : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 17
File
[1954]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Ellen Ballon as a child : [photographs]

Ellen Ballon as a child : [photographs]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 19
File
1899 - 1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Major John White Hughes Bassett to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Major John White Hughes Bassett to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1953

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a citation of a poem by Robbie Burns, signed by John Bassett, the president and managing director of the Montreal Gazette.

Bassett, John White Hughes

Letter from Lotte Lehmann to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Lotte Lehmann to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a brief thank-you note for flowers received.

Lehmann, Charlotte

Letter from Walter de Mouilpied Scriver to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Walter de Mouilpied Scriver to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 7
File
September 30, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a letter from Walter de Mouilpied to Ellen Ballon, written on September 30, 1952. The letter thanks Ballon for a performance she gave at an honorary dinner. Item is accompanied by the stamped envelope in which Ballon received the letter. The postage stamp has been removed from the envelope.

Scriver, Walter de Mouilpied

Concerto for piano and orchestra : [performance guidelines]

Concerto for piano and orchestra : [performance guidelines]

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 3
File
[1948]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File includes liner notes, recording timing notes, and notes for corrections to the score, all for the recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto. The liner notes were written by Ralph Gustafson, a friend of Villa-Lobos and Ellen Ballon, to whom the concerto is dedicated and who performed the concerto for its recording in 1948. The concerto was written in Rio de Janeiro in 1945. The file includes directions for transcribing Villa-Lobos' piano concerto from the records of its American premiere in Dallas, Texas with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati.

Charles Harris : [autographed photograph]

Charles Harris : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 14
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Josef Hofmann : [autographed photograph]

Josef Hofmann : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 15
File
1915-1916

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Ellen Ballon sitting at an ornate piano in London, England

Ellen Ballon sitting at an ornate piano in London, England

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 18
File
1930

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Rafael Joseffy and family : [autographed photograph]

Rafael Joseffy and family : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 29
File
1907

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the Hungarian pianist Rafael Joseffy and his family.

Richard Nevill : [autographed photograph]

Richard Nevill : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 30
File
1927

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of Richard Nevill of Tunbridge Wells, signed May 1927.

Harold Bauer : [autographed photograph]

Harold Bauer : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 32
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the English pianist Harold Bauer.

Norman Dello Joio : [autographed photograph]

Norman Dello Joio : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 35
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the American composer, Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), inscribed to Ellen Ballon.

Antal Dorati : [autographed photograph]

Antal Dorati : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 4
File
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of Antal Dorati, the conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, in commemoration of the United States' premiere of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.

Ernest MacMillan : [autographed photograph]

Ernest MacMillan : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1953

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of Sir Ernest MacMillan, the conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in commemoration of a performance with Ellen Ballon of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.

Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 8
File
[195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Aaron Copland : [autographed photograph]

Aaron Copland : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 10
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

John Bassett : [autographed photograph]

John Bassett : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1956

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Olin Downes : [autographed photograph]

Olin Downes : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 6
File
1957

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

William Somerset Maugham : [autographed photograph]

William Somerset Maugham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 7
File
[1940 - 1965]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Sir Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

Sir Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 8
File
[195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Heitor Villa-Lobos : [autographed photograph]

Heitor Villa-Lobos : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

William Schuman : [autographed photograph]

William Schuman : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 13
File
1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Douglas Clarke, Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James, and unknown man : [photograph]

Douglas Clarke, Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James, and unknown man : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 15
File
[1954]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of Douglas Clarke (Dean of the Faculty of Music at McGill University from 1930 to 1955), Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James (Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University from 1939 until 1962), and an unknown man, standing in front of three microphones for radio stations: CKVL, CFCF, and CKAC. The photograph may have been taken at one of the concerts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the McGill Conservatorium.

Ellen Ballon : [photograph]

Ellen Ballon : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 20
File
[193-? - 195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of Ellen Ballon at a grand piano.

Abram Chasins : [autographed photograph]

Abram Chasins : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 3
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Anton Rubenstein : [autographed photograph]

Anton Rubenstein : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 4
File
1873

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed postcard photograph of Arthur Rubinstein with some handwritten music on the back, signed during his American tour in New York on May 18, 1873.

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 6
File
[1940 - 1972]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

The McGill News : Ellen Ballon and Pauline Donalda receiving honorary doctorates from McGill Univ...

The McGill News : Ellen Ballon and Pauline Donalda receiving honorary doctorates from McGill University

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 7
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a framed reproduction of the front cover of The McGill News (Winter 1954), featuring Ellen Ballon and the Canadian operatic soprano Pauline Donalda receiving their honorary doctorates. The photograph is in black and white but the banner for the magazine is in colour.

Group photograph including Dr. David Thomson, Samuel Bronfman, Mrs. Bronfman, Sir Ernest MacMilla...

Group photograph including Dr. David Thomson, Samuel Bronfman, Mrs. Bronfman, Sir Ernest MacMillan, and Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 8
File
[1950 - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Rubin Goldmark : [autographed photograph]

Rubin Goldmark : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 9
File
1907

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Sir William C. MacDonald : [autographed photograph]

Sir William C. MacDonald : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 11
File
[1900-1917]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Camillien Houde, Pauline Donaldson, Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James, and two unidentified people ...

Camillien Houde, Pauline Donaldson, Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James, and two unidentified people at a press conference : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 15
File
[1950 - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of a press conference, presumably at McGill University, with microphones from CKAC and CKVL radio stations.

Ellen Ballon and Alicia Mahorn : [photograph]

Ellen Ballon and Alicia Mahorn : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 16
File
[1950 - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of The Three Bares sculpture at McGill University

Photograph of The Three Bares sculpture at McGill University

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 17
File
[1931]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of "The Three Bares" sculpture (also known as the "Friendship Fountain"), which was given to McGill University by its creator, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, as a show of goodwill between the United States and Canada. Ellen Ballon met Whitney while in New York and reportedly suggested the donation of the sculpture. It was presented to the university in 1931 by New York Times editor John Finley in 1931.

Trois mazourkas pour le piano

Trois mazourkas pour le piano

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 9
File
[1847]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a first edition copy of Chopin's Mazurkas, Op. 63, published by Breitkopf and Hartel. The compositions were dedicated to the Countess Laura Czosnowska.

Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek

Newspaper article on Sir Jacob Epstein's bust of Ellen Ballon

Newspaper article on Sir Jacob Epstein's bust of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 20
File
1965

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the article.

Raoul Pugno : [autographed photograph]

Raoul Pugno : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 6
File
January 16, 1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of the French pianist Raoul Pugno (1852-1915), addressed to Ellen Ballon. The photograph was taken by an indecipherable studio in New York.

Arthur Rubenstein in New York : [autographed photograph]

Arthur Rubenstein in New York : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 3
File
July 15, 1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of a young Arthur Rubenstein with a German inscription signed by Rubenstein below.

Murial Dundas : [autographed photograph]

Murial Dundas : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 3
File
April 25, 1925

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of Muriel Dundas, personalized to Ellen Ballon. The photograph was taken at the Ira J. Hill Studio in New York.

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