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Alouette Quartet

Item number (ISN):

226993

Series title:

Alouette Quartet

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

226993

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: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1984-0164

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Release date:

1945-07-19

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer, P.S. Atkin; narrator, Charles Miller

Description:

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One in a series of programs of French Canadian and kindred folk music with the Alouette Quartet. The quartet is comprised of Jules Jacob, Roger Filiatrault, André Trottier and Émile Lamarre, directed by Oscar O'Brien and accompanied by a string ensemble conducted by Hector Gratton.~"C'est le vent frivolent" (It is the Rollicking Wind), a song popular in the Ottawa River country, sung by the quartet.~"The Song Tune", played by the string ensemble.~"The Country Dance", by Henry Crystal, played by the ensemble.~"L'âne de Jean" (Little Johnny's Donkey), a rhythmic lament of a donkey devoured by wolves, sung by the quartet.~"Concertina", a place in three movements by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs. Gibbs, born in 1889, was Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Royal College of Music from 1920 onwards Played by the ensemble, with solo pianist Marie-Thérèse Paquin.~"Le joli tambour" (The Handsome Dummer Boy), sung by the quartet. This song was popularized at the Quebec Folksong Festival of 1927 where J. Campbell MacInnis performed an arrangement of it by English composer Graham Peel.~The quartet sings a song based on a myth of Noah's wine from the Chansonnier canadien of Guldrich Allier.

Language:

English

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1. Other side contains MUSIC FROM THE PACIFIC.~2. For reference tape see 1982-0076/0179, cut 1.

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Vault ISN:

252070

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/1846
1984-0164/1847

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Technical description:

GLASS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

956344

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

226993-1984-0164-1846.WAV
226993-1984-0164-1847.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1984-0164/1846
1984-0164/1847

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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