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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.

Letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 15
File
1952-1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains three letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon concerning her performances and the conferral of an honorary degree by McGill to her.

James, Frank Cyril

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.

Alberto Erede : [autographed photograph]

Alberto Erede : [autographed photograph]

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

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

Two piano pieces

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains copies of the manuscripts for two untitled pieces by George Barati (born Gyorgy Braunstein), written at the MacDowell Colony between June 19 and June 22, 1948. The first composition is dedicated to his wife, Ruth.

Barati, George

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 11
File
[1941]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a copy of a manuscript for Alexander Brott's piano suite, which includes "Sacrilege," "Remorse," and "Conviction."

Brott, Alexander

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.

Newspaper clippings concerning concerts and Ellen Ballon's recovery from her injury

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 18
File
1942

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File also includes a sheet of caricatures drawn by Wilhelm Busch.

Newspaper clippings concerning radio schedules and advertisements

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 21
File
1955-1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File also includes a clipping about Ellen Ballon's agent, Andrew Schulhof, and a ticket for a performance at Plateau Hall in Montreal featuring Ellen Ballon performing Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto with the CBC Symphony Orchestra.

Newspaper clippings concerning radio schedules and recitals

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 22
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File also includes clippings about Ellen Ballon's collection of miniatures from the Good Housekeeping magazine.

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 a visit by Villa-Lobos, radio schedules, and concerts

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 24
File
1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

These materials were originally filed with the programs located in (Box 4, Folder 14).

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.

Newspaper clippings concerning concerts and other topics

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 27
File
1941-1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains newspaper clippings that mention Ellen Ballon. Topics range from concert reviews, her favourite recipes, lifestyle, the death of her mother (Charlotte Ballon, nee Klein), and her contributions during the Second World War. One of the articles reports on her premiere performance in Rio de Janeiro of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.

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 : 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.

McGill and its music : centennial concert : [program]

MS-5-2, Box 4, Folder 7
File
November 3, 1967

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a program for a centennial concert celebration at McGill University, featuring the McGill Symphony Orchestra and John McKay on piano.
Ellen Ballon is cited in the introduction as one of McGill's notable graduates.

United States Military Academy Band concert program

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 1
File
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two copies of the program, which featured Ellen Ballon as a guest pianist with the United States Military Academy Band, conducted by Captain Francis E. Resta.

The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra concert fliers

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 2
File
March 5, 1942

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two fliers for Ellen Ballon's concert with The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ethel Stark.

Programs and posters for concerts by Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 3
File
1942-1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a program for The Town Hall concert series in New York where Ellen Ballon performed February 13, 1943; a program from the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Izler Solomon, with whom Ballon performed March 20, 1944; and a poster advertising Ellen Ballon, by her personal representative, Andrew Schulhof.

Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 4
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a copy of the 1906 publication of Anna Magdalena's 1725 Notebook with various short piano compositions, edited by Dr. Richard Batka. The book is inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Clara Lichtenstein, her teacher at McGill Conservatorium of Music, and dated April 7, 1910 in Montreal.

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 13
File
[before 1952]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File is a manuscript with three numbered pieces by Alfred La Liberté: "Pensée Tendre" (D-flat Major), dedicated to Katherine Sneed; "Prière (Choral)" (D Major), dedicated to Marcel Dupré; and "Dance-Song" (b minor).

La Liberté, Alfred

Two compositions for the pianoforte, Op. 10

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 4
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two pieces by Sydney C. Dalton: "Yearning" (dedicated to Cecil) and "Valse Arabesque." They were published by Arthur P. Schmidt in 1906.

Dalton, Sydney C.

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

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

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

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.

Pianoscript book : an invaluable aid to teacher and student in preserving important advice and lesson notes in permanent form

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 21
File
1918

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used by Ellen Ballon while she was studying with Alberto Jonas in New York. Each page includes printed technical excercises and blank staff lines with some additions handwritten in pencil, presumably by Jonas or Ballon. The book includes a repertoire list of pieces Ballon performed in 1918-1919.

Jonàs, Alberto

School of advanced piano playing : exercises

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 22
File
1902

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used and annotated by Ellen Ballon, presumably while studying with Rafael Joseffy.

Joseffy, Rafael

School of octave-playing for the pianoforte : book three

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 23
File
1917

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used and annotated by Ellen Ballon. It is the third book in a set of three, dedicated to Rafael Joseffy. It includes studies by composers from Ludwig van Beethoven until the book's publication.

Philipp, Isidor

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.

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

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

Izler Solomon : [autographed photograph]

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

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.

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.

Virgil Thomson : [autographed photograph]

Virgil Thomson : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 9, Folder 6
File
1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains an autographed photograph of the American composer Virgil Thomson, addressed to Ellen Ballon, "my doctor and friend."