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Schafer, R. Murray [Raymond Murray]
composer, writer, music educator
| born: 18 Jul 1933 |
Sarnia, Ontario / province, Canada |
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Ginsberg, Merle
Canadian scene
International Musician 92:13 Apr 1994
Note: wins Canada Council Prize
Helms, Siegmund
Neues Lexikon der Musikpadagogik : Personteil
Kassel: Gustav Bosse, 1994, 272 p.
Number of People : 713
Fourth String Quartet.
Note: Indian River, Ontario, Arcana, 1989. $30.00
Fifth String Quartet.
Note: Indian River, Ontario, Arcana, 1989. $30.00
The musicians by Patricia Wardrop
p. 108 In:
Curtin, Walter
Curtin call
A photographer's candid view of 25 years of music in Canada
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994, 134 p.
Felix's Girls : Nine Settings of Text by Henry Felix for SATB Quartet and/or Chorus, Unaccompanied.
Note: Bancroft, Ontario, Arcana, 1989. $4.00
The Black Theatre of Hermes Trismegistos (Patria IV)
For Actors, Singers, Instruments. (Toronto, Arcana, 1988. $50.00)
Ra (Patria 6); Religious Drama for Chorus, 2 Percussion, Qanun, Ud, Darabukkah, Violin; Tape and Electronic Sounds; Dancers, Actors. (Indian River, Ontario, Arcana, 1989. score $100.00 performer's version $30.00)
Fire : for SATB with Clacker.
Note: Toronto, Arcana, 1989. $4.00
Sun : Composition for Unaccompanied Choir.
Note: Bancroft, Ontario, Arcana, 1990. $6.00
Snowforms : for Children's Voices.
Note: Toronto, Arcana, 1990. $7.00
Gamelan : a Composition for Four Voices or for Mixed Chorus.
Note: Indiana River, Ontario, Arcana, 1990. $6.00
A Garden of Bells : Mixed, Unaccompanied Chorus.
Note: Bancroft, Ontario, Arcana, 1990. $6.00
Opera diary
Opera Canada 35:4 Summer 1994
Note: winner, 1993 Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts
The Star Princess and the Waterlilies
For Narrator, Contralto Soloist, Children's Chorus, Instruments ad lib.
Note: Bancroft, Ontario, Arcana, 1990. $6.00
Le Cri de Merlin for Solo Guitar.
Note: Toronto, Arcana, 1987. $20.00
Record review Schafer : String Quartets Nos. 1-5 (Orford String Quartet) (CMC Centre Discs, 2 CD)
Ferneyhough, Brian
Morton, Brian
Collins, Pamela
Contemporary composers
Editors Brian Morton [and] Pamela Collins
With a preface by Brian Ferneyhough
Chicago: St. James Press, 1992, 1019 p.
Achilles, E.
Music making beyond the classroom
Music Educators Journal 79:35-7 Dec 1992
port
Note: interview
Premieres
Canadian Composer: 3:26 N3 1992
The listening post Schafer : Flute Concerto; Harp Concerto; the Darkly Splendid Earth; the Lonely Traveller (Robert Aitken, flute; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor/Judy Loman, harp; the Toronto Symphony, Andrew Davis, conductor/Jacques Israelievitch, violin; the Toronto Symphony, Gunther Herbig, conductor) (CBC Records CD)
Classical Music Magazine 15:39 N5 1992
illustr.
Record review Schafer : the Crown of Ariadne; Theseus
Houdy : Quintet for Harp and String Quartet; Luedeke; the Moon in the Labyrinth (J. Leman (harp), Orford String Quartet) (CMC Centre Discs, 2 CDs)
Dawes, Frank
R. Murray Schafer
facs il mus port
Note: interview
Paynter, J.
Personalities in world music education no. 13 : R. Murray Schafer
International Journal of Music Education N18:40-44 1991
bibliog port
summary in French, German, and Spanish
Cummings, David M.
McIntire, Dennis K.
International who's who in music and musician's directory
(in the classical and light classical fields)
Twelfth edition 1990/91
Consultant editors David M. Cummings; Dennis K. McIntire
Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1991
Number of People : 8,178
Premieres
Canadian Composer: 2:26 N2 1991
Record reviews Schafer : the Five String Quartets (Orford String Quartet) (Centrediscs CD)
Music Magazine 14:36-7 N1 1991
port
Premieres
Canadian Composer: 2:26 N2 1991
Schafer, R. Murray
Patria and the theatre of confluence.
Indian River, Ont.: Arcana Editions, 1991. 228 p.
Recordings in review Britten : Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70
Schafer : Le Cri de Merlin; Tippett; the Blue Guitar. Norbert Kraft, guitar
Musical America 110:72-3 N5 1990
Note: Chandos CD
Coulter, T.
Truax, B.
The electroacoustic scene : coast-to-coast
illustr.
Miller, M.
Record review (Canadian Chamber Ensemble, C. Tilney (hpschd), C. Lavell (hn), D. Bourque (bcl); Centrediscs (CD))
Canadian composers mini biographies
Sponsored by The Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations
Green, P.
Canadian concert music in Belgium
Music Scene N367:10 May-Jun 1989
Delio, Thomas
Smith, Stuart Saunders
Words and spaces
An anthology of twentieth century musical experiments in language and sonic environments
Stuart Saunders Smith and Thomas DeLio editors and contributors
New York: University Press of America, 1989, 264 p.
Beatty, Carolyn
Robert, Veronique
Gagne, Mireille
Bouhalassa, Ned
Hand, Mark
Marois, Gilles
Auer, Simone
Repertoire des compositeurs agrees
Coordination: Carolyn Beatty, Mark Hand
Revision: Simone Auer, Ned Bouhalassa, Mireille Gagne
Traduction: Gilles Marois, Veronique Robert
Toronto: Centre de Musique Canadiene, 1989
Premieres
Music Scene N370:23 Nov-Dec 1989
Colgrass, Ulla
For the love of music : interviews with Ulla Colgrass
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988
Premieres
Music Scene N362:22 Jul-Aug 1988
Kareda, U.
In review Toronto
Opera News 52:38 Mar 12 1988
Littler, William
Roundup / Toronto Canadian Opera Company/Shaw Festival
Opera Canada 29:28-9 N1 1988
illustr.
What's the score?
Instrumentalist: 42:17 Jun 1988
Careless, J.
Murray Schafer's exercise in primaries
The Greatest Show
Performing Arts in Canada 25:35-8 N1 1988
illustr.
Note: on Earth
Ginsberg, Merle
Canadian scene
International Musician 87:11+ Nov 1988
Note: Peterborough extravaganza
Adams, Stephen
Murray Schafer's Patria
The greatest show on earth?
Journal of Canadian Studies 23/I and 2 (Spring/Summer 1988): 199-207.
Schafer, R. Murray
Patria One : the Characteristics Man.
Journal of Canadian Studies 23/1 and 2 (Spring/Summer, 1988):207-218.
Premieres
Music Scene N357:26 Sep-Oct 1987
1987-88 premieres and season highlights
Armstrong, D.
R. Murray Schafer and music of the future
Music Magazine 10:6-9 N3 1987
cover port facs ports
Bert, A.
Toronto's Guitar 87 : a report
American String Teacher 37:52-3 N4 1987
Ginsberg, Merle
Canadian scene
International Musician 86:9 Jul 1987
Note: awarded first Glenn Gould Prize
New operas and premieres
Central Opera Service Bulletin 28:3 N1-2 1987-1988
Dotted notes
Music Magazine 10:22 N2 1987
port
Note: winner of first Glenn Gould Prize
Attention composers & librettists : Winners
Central Opera Service Bulletin 27:42 N4 1987
Note: Glenn Gould Memorial Foundation Award
Schafer wins inaugural Glenn Gould Prize.
Music Scene N356:24 Jul-Aug 1987
Premieres
Music Scene N355:22 May-Jun 1987
Schafer, R. Murray
Radical radio
Ear 11-12:18-20 N5-N1 1987
ports
Premieres/Creations
Musicanada N57:16 Jun 1986
Canada music week.
A celebration of the international year of Canadian music : 3-11 November 1986
Kingston, Ontario: Department of Music, Queen's University, 1986, 43 p.
New operas and premieres
Central Opera Service Bulletin 27:7 N2 1986
Premieres
Music Scene N352:26 Nov-Dec 1986
New operas and premieres
Central Opera Service Bulletin 27:7 N2 1986
Premieres
Music Scene N347:21 Jan-Feb 1986
Les faits sonores de l'environnement chez Robert Murray Schafer.
Revue Musicale, la N394-395-396-397:151-3 1986
What's happening
Music Magazine 9:10 N1 1986
Schafer, R. Murray
Serge Garant, a pioneer
Canadian University Music Review/revue de Musique des Universites Canadiennes N7:9 1986
Wilson, P.N.
Verordnete Harmonie : Musik und Musikphilosophie im Zeichen des "New Age"
Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik N9:8 Sep 1986
Premieres
Music Scene N352:26 Nov-Dec 1986
Schafer, R. Murray
Jonah and the Maynooth Community Choir
Journal of Church Music 28:4-8+ Jun 1986
Premieres
Music Scene N348:21 Mar-Apr 1986
Premieres/Creations
Musicanada N57:16 Jun 1986
In concert
Music Scene N346:26 Nov-Dec 1985
port
Schafer, R. Murray
Concert spaces : a less orthodox view
Musicanada N55:5 Nov 1985
also in French
Composers
Musicanada N53:13 Jan 1985
also in French
Premieres/Creations
Musicanada N55:16 Nov 1985
Premieres
Music Scene N341:25 Jan-Feb 1985
Schafer, R. Murray
Jonah and the Maynooth Community Choir
Bulletin of the Council For Research in Music Education: N84:104-18 Fall 1985
illustr.
Heunis, G.J.
Musiekbeluistering : 'n vergelyking tussen twee benaderings
South African Music Teacher, The/suid-Afrikaanse Musiekonderwyser, Die N107:16-17+ 1985
Premieres
Music Scene N343:25 May-Jun 1985
port p26
Porter, Andrew
Musical events
New Yorker: 60:136 May 14 1984
Strutt, M.
Canadian music for guitar
Classical Guitar 2:62-3 May-Jun 1984
Composers
Musicanada N52:16 Sep 1984
also in French
Journees Mondiales de la Musique; Toronto 23 au 28 septembre; Societe Internationale pour la Musique Contemporaine.
Lake, L.
Growth and tradition : composition in Ontario
Musicanada N52:7 Sep 1984
biog
also in French
Garebian, K.
The dusk to dawn journey of RA; dangerous moments in the theatrical underworld
Performing Arts in Canada 20:22-3 N2 1983
illustr.
Adams, Stephen
R. Murray Schafer.
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press 1983. X, 240 S.
Mit Notenbeisp., Werkeverz. u. Diskogr.
(Series: Canadian Composers; 4)
Toronto Comus Music Theatre
Opera Canada 24:31-2 N3 1983
illustr.
Composium annual index of contemporary compoitions
Directory of new music 1982/83 edition
Los Angeles: Crystal Record, 1983
Number of People : 1,324
Mercer, Ruby
People are talking about ...
Opera Canada 24:10 N2 1983
Adams, Stephen
Murray Schafer.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. x, 240 p.
Kaptainis, Arthur
Ontario Science Centre : Schafer Ra [sic]
High Fidelity/musical America Edition 33:ma22 Oct 1983
Music theatre and choirs
Musicanada N50:12 Oct 1983
also in French
Premieres
Music Scene N334:21 Nov-Dec 1983
Ford, Clifford
Canada's music : an historical survey
Agincourt, Ontario: GLC Publishers Limited, 1982, 278 p.
Swartz, S.
Report from Buffalo
The North American New Music Festival 1983
Perspectives of New Music 21:397+ N1-2 1982-1983
Premieres
Music Scene N323:17 Jan-Feb 1982
Shand, Patricia Martin
Musiques canadienne : oeuvres choisies a l'intention des professeurs
Toronto: Centre de Musique Canadienne, 1982
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