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Autographs and letters from various composers

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27
File
1844-1921

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File includes a postcard with a black and white photograph of Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), an Italian opera composer. The postcard has various signatures on the front, including Francesco Marconi (1855-1916, operatic tenor from Rome) and four other illegible signatures. The postcard is addressed to Frau Dr. Lehnsern(?) of Berlin. File also includes the incipits of three pieces by Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), signed at dated October 3, 1844. There are also five letters written by the following composers: Jacques Offenbach (1879), Gustav Mahler (1899), Edvard Grieg (1902), Maurice Ravel (1921), and Ignacy Paderewski (n.d., 1860-1941).

Colonel Victor Cazalet : [autographed photograph]

Colonel Victor Cazalet : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 2
File
1936

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Dear old London : [sheet music]

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 32, Item 2
Item
1926

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains the sheet music for "Dear Old London" with words by D. Eardley-Wilmot and piano music by Kathleen Heron-Maxwell. The score is inscribed to Ellen Ballon and dated June, 1935. The score was published in two keys, B minor and D minor. This version is in D minor.

Heron-Maxwell, Kathleen

Elizabeth Lyon Bowes : [photograph]

Elizabeth Lyon Bowes : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 18
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II's mother, Elizabeth Lyon Bowes, at the Jubilee celebrations in 1958.

Ellen Ballon concert fliers and programs

MS-5-2, Box 4, Folder 12
File
1936-1943

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File includes a poster for Ellen Ballon's International Celebrity Subscription Concerts tour (1936) and programs for various concerts.

Ellen Ballon fonds

MS-5-2
Fonds
1725-1972, predominantly 1898-1972

Fonds contains correspondence, musical scores (piano and orchestral), photographs, a sketch, harmony notebooks, fliers, programs, newspaper clippings, academic journals, a press book, scrapbooks, and letters of composers. The musical scores include several first edition copies and autograph manuscripts. All personal correspondence is incoming correspondence; no outgoing correspondence is included in this fonds.

Ballon, Ellen

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

Keep on hopin' : [sheet music]

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 32, Item 1
Item
1915

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains the sheet music for "Keep on Hopin'" with words by Frank Stanton and piano music by Kathleen Heron-Maxwell. The score is inscribed to Ellen Ballon and dated June 18, 1935. The score was published in three keys, C Major, E-flat Major, and F-Major. This version is in E-flat Major.

Heron-Maxwell, Kathleen

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 21, Item 1
Item
August 5, 1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a letter from Princess Alice concerning a concert that Ellen Ballon gave, including pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 3
Item
June 4, 1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Mary Goldie, private secretary to Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Mary Goldie, private secretary to Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 21, Item 2
Item
September 21, 1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a letter from Mary Goldie, Princess Alice's private secretary, asking Ellen Ballon to forward an enclosed letter to Frank Cyril James in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the McGill Conservatorium.

Letters from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 21
File
1954-1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains letters concerning Ellen Ballon's performance of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the receipt of flowers. File also contains a letter to Ballon from Mary Goldie, Private Secretary to Princess Alice, concerning a letter from the latter and Lord Athlone to Dr. James (presumably Frank Cyril James) at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Conservatorium of Music.

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Letters from Sir William Stewart and Phyllis Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two short notes, one from Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder, and the other from his wife, Phyllis, thanking Ellen Ballon for lunch.

Duke-Elder, William Stewart, Sir

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Newspaper clippings

Series
1941-1965

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Series contains newspaper clippings about Ellen Ballon. Clippings include articles about a variety of subjects, including Ellen Ballon's life in general, concerts, and her hobbies.

Newspaper clippings concerning advertisements, media schedules, and recitals

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 23
File
1953

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File also includes a repertoire list for a piano performance by Ellen Ballon on BBC television.

Newspaper clippings concerning radio schedules, recordings, and performances

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 25
File
1951

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File also contains newspaper clipping relating to Ellen Ballon's agent Andrew Schulhof and music in Montreal.

Newspaper clippings concerning the Prom concert

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 26
File
1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a newspaper article on Ballon's performance at the Prom concert series in London, England, and two pages of photocopied news articles on the same performance.

Note from Phyllis Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

Note from Phyllis Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
[195-]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Duke-Elder, Phyllis

Note from Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

Note from Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
June 18, 1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 1
Item
[c. 1930 - 1939]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photo of Ellen Ballon taken by Pearl Freeman for publication in the Daily and Sunday Press newspapers in London, England.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 4
Item
[c. 1930 - 1939]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
[c. 1930 - 1939]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 3
Item
[c. 1930 - 1939]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon's hands on a keyboard

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon's hands on a keyboard

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 19, Item 2
Item
1927 - [195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Two songs with music by Kathleen Heron-Maxwell

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 32
File
1935

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two songs arranged by Kathleen Heron-Maxwell, "Dear Old London" (1926) and "Keep on Hopin'" (1915). Both scores are inscribed by the arranger.

Villa-Lobos Exhibition : [program]

MS-5-2, Box 4, Folder 8
File
1964

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the program for an exhibition creation by the Cultural Section of the Brazilian Embassy in London (February 19-March 12, 1964). The program includes lists of exhibited items donated by Ellen Ballon.