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Abram Chasins : [autographed photograph]

Abram Chasins : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 12
Item
November 9, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of a manuscript composition by Alan Hovhaness, inscribed to Ellen Ballon. The composition is based on an Armenian folktale and is comprised of two movements, each of which imitates Armenian instruments (tmpoog for the first movement and the kanoon and oud in the second movement).

Hovhaness, Alan

Alberto Erede : [autographed photograph]

Alberto Erede : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
June 21, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a piano score, originally dedicated to Rudolf Firkusny, but this dedications has been crossed out with blue pencil crayon.

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
June 19-22, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

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.

Bachianas Brasilieras no. 3 : [conductor's score]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 14
Item
1938

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of an autograph version of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3, including performance notes. The score was reproduced and bound by Independent Music Publishers of New York City.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Caprice de concert pour piano, Op. 4

Caprice de concert pour piano, Op. 4

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 8
Item
1899

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of Volpe's Caprice, dedicated to his friend Ossip Gabrilovitsch, and published by Luckhardt and Belder of New York.

Volpe, Arnold

Concerto para piano e orquestra : [autograph manuscript]

Concerto para piano e orquestra : [autograph manuscript]

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 1
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the bound manuscript of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : clarinete baixo

Concerto para piano e orquestra : clarinete baixo

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the bass clarinet part for Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : [manuscript copy]

MS-5-2, Box 4, Folder 2
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a complete orchestral score of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon of New York.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : [manuscript copy]

MS-5-2, Box 4, Folder 3
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a complete orchestral score of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon of New York.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 5
File
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the second bassoonists.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the first bassoonists.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo trombone

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo trombone

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second trombone parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede. This part was used by the first trombone players.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo trombone

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo trombone

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second trombone parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede. This part was used by the second trombone players.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero, segundo, terceiro, e quarto trombone

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the first and second trombone parts and one copy of the third and fourth trombone part for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto Fa horns

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 8
File
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the third and fourth French Horn parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto Fa horns

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto Fa horns

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the third and fourth French Horn parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the fourth French horn players.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto Fa horns

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto Fa horns

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 8, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the third and fourth French Horn parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the third French horn players.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto trombone

Concerto para piano e orquestra : terceiro e quarto trombone

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the third and fourth trombone parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : tuba

Concerto para piano e orquestra : tuba

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 11
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the tuba part for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The part was copied by Fran Averede.

Csárdás no. 2

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 1
Item
1909

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of Joseffy's composition, dedicated to his friend Moriz Rosenthal, and inscribed to Ellen Ballon. File includes a copy of handwritten piano scale exercises, presumably by Joseffy for Ballon.

Joseffy, Rafael

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 28, Item 3
Item
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a composition for piano inspired by Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "The Dark Hills."

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.

Envelope from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Envelope from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 7
Item
April 18, 1912

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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.

Etude de concert, Op. 1, no. 1

Etude de concert, Op. 1, no. 1

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 7
Item
1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an autographed copy of Rafael Joseffy's edition of Paul de Schlözer's etude. It was published by G. Schirmer of New York as part of a "Studies for Concert Use for Piano Solo" series.

Joseffy, Rafael

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

Guia prático : [for piano]

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 13
File
1932

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File includes the second, third, fourth, fifth and tenth albums, dedicated to Julieta d'Almeida Strutt, Arnaldo Estrella, Magdalena Tagliaferro, Tomas Teran, and Ellen Ballon. The albums are copies of handwritten scores completed in New York and Rio between 1948 and 1949.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Harmony workbooks

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folders 1-5
File
[1906 - 1913]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains eleven harmony workbooks used by Ellen Ballon, including notes and exercises. Two books are labelled "Mr. Goldmark Harmony Book," in reference to her harmony teacher in New York, Rubin Goldmark. Another book includes an inserted repertoire list of piano compositions, composers, and times, presumably related to her piano lessons with Rafael Joseffy.

In the forest : four piano compositions, Op. 12

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1909

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains copies of each of the four compositions: "Titania's Waltz"'; "Weeping Willows"; "In the Rushes"; and "Soughing Pines." The work was dedicated to Paolo Gallico (1868–1955). Each piece bears an inscription to Ellen Ballon, Goldmark's student in 1909. The pieces were published by the Oliver Ditson Company in Boston in 1908.

Goldmark, Rubin

In the rushes, Op. 12, no. 3

In the rushes, Op. 12, no. 3

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
1908

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains the third piece in Rubin Goldmark's composition "In the Forest: Four Piano Compositions." This piece is dedicated to Paolo Gallico.

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Konzert etüde, op. 22 no. 1

Konzert etüde, op. 22 no. 1

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 11
Item
[1916-1925]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the original score inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Alberto Jonas. Ballon was one of Jonás' students in New York from c. 1916 until 1925.

Jonàs, Alberto

La paimpolaise : chanson du pêcheurs d'Islande

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 5
Item
1895

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a vocal score with the melody and lyrics for "La Paimpolaise" by the French singer-songwriter Théodore Botrel (1868-1925). The score and lyrics were handwritten by L. Coyteux Preouèl(?) in Ottawa on April 29, 1908.

Botrel, Théodore

Letter from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 15, Item 2
Item
March 23, 1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 15, Item 1
Item
October 26, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 1
Item
February 20, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 4
Item
November 29, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 8
Item
November 21, 1912

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 9
Item
December 26, 1912

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 12
Item
November 28, 1916

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
April 6, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 6
Item
January 20, 1912

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 10
Item
November 24, 1913

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
March 18, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 5
Item
November 21, 1911

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

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