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1966-1992 (Création/Production)
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- Wallis, Gordon
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Gordon C. Wallis was born in Dodsland, Saskatchewan on July 7, 1917. Wallis earned an A.T.C.M. Associate - Special Diploma (Piano) in 1934 from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto and from 1935 to 1938 gave piano lessons to students in several towns in Saskatchewan. Wallis served overseas with the Canadian army during World War II obtaining an honorable discharge in 1945. In 1946 he joined the piano faculty of the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in Toronto where he taught until 1951.
Wallis was organist and choirleader at St. Clair Baptist Church in Toronto, Royal York Road United Church, Knox Presbyterian Church in Oakville and at the High Park Avenue United Church in Toronto from 1948 to 1961 while from 1952 to 1965 he also taught lessons privately. From 1960 to 1962 Wallis was Supervisor of Music for Markham (Ontario) Public Schools and
Wallis worked in Toronto as organist and choirlaeader, accompanist, and taught privately. In August 1966 he became Assistant Director of the Regina Conservatory (of Music) at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, forerunner to the University of Regina. Wallis was heavily involved with the Saskatchewan music scene and several scholarships have been established in his name.
In addition to teaching piano, opera was also very important to Wallis and the Gordon Wallis Opera Resource Centre is located at Darke Hall. This resource centre includes his extensive personal collection of material related to opera and includes recordings and operatic scores, libretti, documents, books, periodicals and programmes from major opera houses all over the world.
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his open collection is comprised of approximately 32 centimetres of material and ranges from 1966 to 1992, it is comprised of Dorothy Bee’s obituary and musical programmes collected by Gordon Wallis from such Canadian venues as: Achill & Georgetown Choral Societies, The American Film Theatre Banff Centre, Campbell Collegiate, Campion High School, Canada – USSR Cultural Exchange, Canadian Bible College Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations, Canadian Mosaic Cathedral Music, CBC National Music Festival,
CBC Radio, CBC Regina, Centre de Culture, Chamber Music Concert, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Contemporary Dancers, Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Co-opera’s 4th Annual Rites of Spring, Deer Park United Church,Eglinton United Church, Elizabethan Singers of Regina, English Suitcase Theatre, First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Gallery on the Roof, Globe Theatre, Government House, The Gyro Club of Regina, Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Festival, Holland Festival, Holy Rosary Cathedral, Jeunesses Musicales, The Kinsmen Concert Series, Knox-Metropolitan United Church, Leader-Post Christmas Carols, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Les Grand Ballets Canadiens, Liederabend, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Manitoba Opera Association, Masses of Haydn & Shubert, Mendel Art Gallery, Music Teachers’ Associations, National Ballet of Canada, Northwestern University School of Music, O’Keefe Centre for Performing Arts, Oberlin Opera Theater, Opera Saskatchewan, The Overture Concert Association, The Place, Prairie Opera, Queen Elizabeth ll Music Building, Radio Orchestra of Canada, Regina Ballroom Hotel Saskatchewan, Regina Bell Ringers, Regina Centre of the Arts, Regina Chamber Singers, Regina Chinese Singers Concert, Regina Little Theatre, Regina Lyric Light Opera, Regina Male Voice Choir, Regina Music Club, Regina Music Festival, Regina Performing Arts Centre, Regina Philharmonic Chorus, Regina Public Library, Regina Summer Stage, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Regina Symphony Women’s Association, The Rotary Club of Penticton, Rotary Players Program, Royal Canadian College of Organists, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Sandy Bar, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, Saskatchewan Festival of the Arts, Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Scene Festival Canada, School of Music Gallard’, Society for the Advancement of Music, South Saskatchewan Opera Guild, Spirit in the Landscape, St. Andrew’s Sanctuary Choir, St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Mary’s Anglican Church, St. Matthew’s, St. Paul’s Church, Stars of China National Dancers, Stars of the Bolshoi, Theatre Canada Festival, Theatre Saskatchewan, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Trinity Lutheran Church, United National Children’s Fund, University of Alberta, University of Regina Campion College, University of Regina College of Fine Arts, University of Regina Collegium Musicum, University of Regina Concert Choir, University of Regina Conservatory of Music, University of Regina Department Music, University of Regina Department of Drama, University of Regina Department of Music, University of Regina Department of Theatre, University of Regina Fine Arts, University of Regina Luther College, University of Regina Opera Workshop, University of Regina School of Journalism, University of Regina Theatre Department, University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, Drama Department, University of Toronto, University of Women’ Musical Club, Wesley United Church, Western Board of Music, Young Artists Inter-Provincial Competition, Youth & Music Canada, Zion United Church.
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December 2015 (Creation)
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