Audio recordings
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 1; 00008
- Date
- 1918-1967
- Scope and Content
- Includes 19 recordings; 1 cassette, 1 vinyl record; 17 magnetic tapes. The cassette and (signed) vinyl recording feature operatic arias and Elizabethan love songs featuring Sarah Fischer.
Autographed picture of Yehudi Menuhin, viiolonist and conductor
- Collection
- Aline Gubbay Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b & w ; 25 x 30 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1280; 3; 021069
Autograph portrait of Michal Hambourg, British pianist, record artist and teacher
- Collection
- Aline Gubbay Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b & w ; 25 x 31 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1280; 3; 0210097
Biographical materials, Ethel Stark
- Collection
- Ethel Stark Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1271; 00001
- Date
- c1972-c1980
Captions accompanying Expo '67 exhibition
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 1; 00015
- Scope and Content
- Captions accompanying exhibition of Sarah Fischer's costumes, which were dispayed in the hospitality pavilion at Expo '67, 1967.
Clippings, Ethel Stark
- Collection
- Ethel Stark Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1271; 00003
Clippings on Sarah Fischer
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 2; 00019
- Date
- 1917-1974
Commercial group portrait of Giora Feidman and his Klezmer band posing with their instruments.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.7 x 25.7 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019118
- Date
- [between 1980 and 1990]
Commercial group portrait of the Klezmer band Brave Old World members [from left] Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling, Michael Alpert, and Stuart Brotman with their instruments.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 20.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019150
- Date
- [between 1989 and 2000]
Commercial portrait of Yuli Turovsky, Artistic Director of I Musici de Montreal, and honorree at the Beth-El Youth Concert.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 17.7 x 12.6 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019176
- Date
- [between 2000 and 2010]
Concert ephemera (tickets and accounting materials)
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 1; 00010
Correspondence
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 2; 00017
- Date
- 1940-1974
Correspondence
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1017; 2; 00018
Correspondence, Ethel Stark
- Collection
- Ethel Stark Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1271; 00004
Correspondence, Jewish Music Council
- Collection
- Tressa Jacobson Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1068; 00007
- Date
- 1962-1963
Ethel Stark Collection
- Collection
- Ethel Stark Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 4 files of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1271
- Collection
- Ethel Stark Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 4 files of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1271
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Violinist, conductor, teacher, Ethel Stark was born in Montreal on August 25, 1916. She is a laureat of the Quebec Academy of Music, recipient of the Curtis diploma, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the recipient of an honourary degree (LLD) from Concordia University, Montreal. In 1934 Ethel Stark became the first Canadian woman to perform as soloist in a broadcasted program across the USA. In 1940 she founded the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, which she conducted until the late 1960s. She was also founding director of the New York women's Chamber Orchestra, the Ethel Stark Symphonietta, and the Montreal Women's Symphony Strings. She was guest conductor with symphonies in Canada and abroad including Israel and Tokyo, Japan. Ethel Stark was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1980.
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Related Material
- Photograph Collection also contains images of Ethel Stark.
- Subjects
- Stark, Ethel, 1916-
- Musicians
- Violins.
- Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail
Exhibition documentation, "Galerie West-End 1985"
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 30 photographs : col. ; 10.2 x 15.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018333
- Date
- 1985
Exterior commercial group portrait of the Bagg Street Klezmer Band, from left to right, Harle Thomas, percussion; Stephen Errinton, piano; Minda Bernstein, violin; David Mandel, accordion; Lorin Levine, saxophones and guitar; Philip Weech, trumpets; Rick Goldman (leader), clarinet; in front of the Bagg Street synagogue.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.9 x 18.8 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019168
- Date
- [between 1990 and 2000]
Exterior group snapshot, The members of Winnipeg's Finjan, a klezmer musical group, are [from left] Myron Schultz, Martin (Kinzey) Posen, Shayla Fink, Victor Schultz, Daniel Koulack and Eli Herscovitch, outside building with their instruments.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.6 x 25.2 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019113
- Date
- [between 1980 and 1990]
George M. Brewer Fonds
- Collection
- George M. Brewer Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1389
- Date
- 1928
- Scope and Content
- 1 file of textual records containing a score of sheet music.
- Collection
- George M. Brewer Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 1 file of textual records containing a score of sheet music.
- Date
- 1928
- Fonds No.
- 1389
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- George M. Brewer
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- History / Biographical
- "An organist for 35 years at the Church of Messiah in Montréal, G.M. Brewer also worked as an accompanist, recitalist (piano and organ), professor (Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal), examiner (Dominion College of Music), and composer. The knowledge he acquired on his numerous travels also made him a celebrated lecturer (exotic music, visual arts, philosophy, etc.). His compositions include choral works, pieces for piano, and melodies." - Music Archives at the National Library of Canada
Brewer was also the organist and choir director of Temple Emanu-el from 1914-1928.
- Language
- English
- Accession No.
- 18-008
- Name Access
- Brewer, George M.
- Subjects
- Temple Emanu-El -- Montreal (Quebec)
- Music.
- Musicians
- Sabbath
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail