Archives Catalogue

Autograph by Ignacy Jan Paderewski

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27, Item 7
Item
[19--]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point museum with cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 25
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are cadets, R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with West Point Military Academy cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 26
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon with three cadets from the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

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.

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Hugh Ross : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 34
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of Hugh Ross(?), inscribed to Ellen Ballon.

Dr. Charles F. Martin : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 25
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains one signed photograph of the Dean of Medicine at McGill University, Dr. Charles F. Martin.

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

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]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 23
Item
[c. 1950 - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 23
File
[1930 - 1969]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon posing with a piano.

Karsh, Yousuf

Maxwell Cohen, Fannie Hurst, Ellen Ballon, and Morton Gould : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 14
File
[1950 - 1968]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

William Somerset Maugham : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Lotte Lehmann, Dr. Ross Flemington, and Ellen Ballon at Mount Allison University : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 13
File
1962

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of Lotte Lehmann and Ellen Ballon with Dr. Ross Flemington, president of Mount Allison University, following a concert in 1962.

Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Sir Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon sitting at a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 11
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati and Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 27
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland and Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 28
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon playing a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 12
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 29
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland.

Telegram from Isidore Ballon to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 19
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a telegram sent to Ellen Ballon concerning money.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon sitting at a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 6
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Sally Ryan : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Ellen Ballon and Heitor Villa-Lobos : [photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 5
File
[1945 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a photograph of Ellen Ballon and Heitor Villa-Lobos seated at a restaurant. The photograph is signed by Ellen Ballon and Mario Cortez(?).

Aaron Copland : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Abram Chasins : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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

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.

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 9
File
December 2, 1957

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Ellon Ballon written on December 2, 1957. The letter concerns a performance by Ellen Ballon in Montreal. Item is accompanied by the Ritz Carlton Montreal envelope in which Ballon received the letter.

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

John Bassett : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Terceiro concerto de piano e orquestra : redução para dois pianos

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 4
Item
1956

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an autograph manuscript of Heitor Villa-Lobos's reduction for two pianos of his Piano Concerto No. 3, completed in New York in 1956. The composition was commissioned by the Brazilian pianist Arnaldo Estrella.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Heitor Villa-Lobos : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

William Schuman : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Dimitri Mitropoulos : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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

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

Olin Downes : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

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.

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.