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Opportunity Knocks

Item number (ISN):

128974

Series title:

Opportunity Knocks

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1951-04-16

Item number (ISN):

128974

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: SPECIAL DISC COLLECTION

Accession:

1989-0181

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1951-04-16

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

host/conductor, John Adaskin; announcer, Lamont Tilden

Description:

Developing Canadian artists perform on this weekly talent show, with a winner chosen for a final competition. This program features a young and unknown Maureen Forrester, who tells John Adaskin that she has a "part-time job as a switchboard operator". The performers are: (a) singer [George Kirkman]: "It Might As Well Be Spring"; (b) contralto Maureen Forrester: "Ombra mai fu" from "Serse" by Handel; (c) Canadian Composers series: "Overture for a Puppet Show" by Maurice Blackburn, played by the Opportunity Knocks orchestra; (d) singer [André Contin]: "Rose of the World"; (e) pianist [Arthur Roberts] with his own "Concerto Moderne". Last week's winner, soprano [Françoise Houle], sings "Je T'Aime" by Evard Grieg. <30mn>

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

134654

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0181/0563
1989-0181/0564

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ALUM

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

315599

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9811-0008

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

60:37

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004100

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9811-0008

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1989-0181/0563
1989-0181/0564
1988-0526/17
1985-0092/0922

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9811-0008

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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