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Louis Applebaum fonds

  • F0254
  • Fonds
  • 1931-2000

Fonds contains records include scripts, scores, correspondence and papers, reports, photographs, films, lectures, and interviews documents Applebaum's activities as a composer, conductor, and arts administrator.

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Printed material

Series contains announcements and articles concerning Applebaum's life and work, and related material, arranged by subject (dance, festivals, film, music, opera, theatre, Stratford).

Scores

Series consists of three sub-divisions: Scores for films; Scores for radio and television; Scores for theatre. Some of the scores include sketches, shooting scripts, parts, music cues, correspondence with directors and producers. The scores for films contains scores for National Film Board productions, including 'Alexis Tremblay, habitant' (1942) 'Arctic saga,' (1952), 'Athabasca,' (1967), 'Canadian profile,' (1956), 'The forest,' (1965), 'Krieghoff,' (1955), 'Paddle to the sea,' (1966), 'Royal journey,' (1951 Royal Tour), and 'Varley,' (1952). In addition, there is a good deal of NFB stock music composed by Applebaum. There are also scores for American government agencies (United States Army Reorientation Branch, United States Navy, Georgia Department of Health, Mississippi Department of Public Health). As well, there are Hollywood scores for 'Lost boundaries, '(1949), 'Story of G.I. Joe.' (1945), 'Tomorrow the world,' (1944), and scores for American productions including the Hans Richter film 'Dreams that money can buy,' (1952) with music by John Cage, Paul Bowles, and Applebaum. For radio and television there are scores for 'And then we wrote,' (1967), the CBC National News theme (1966-1967), scores for the CBC Television programmes "Camera Canada," ('Campus in the clouds,' 'Hockey,' etc), 'The discoverers,' (1972) "First performance" ('Black of the moon,' 'O'Brien,' 'Time lock,'), 'Images of Canada,' (1972), 'The journal of Susanna Moodie,' (1971), 'Mr. Piper,'[children's programme] (1961-1963), 'Peer Gynt,' (1957), "CBC playhouse," ('The ghost in the corpse,' 'The girl queen at the world's end,' 'How the Tongans came to Fiji,' 'The McAndrew family,' 'The viking and the vixen,')(1952), "Purple playhouse" ('The bells,' 'Corsican brothers,' 'Dracula,' 'Sweeney Todd,' 'Used up,') (1973), 'Scope' (1955), 'Seven days of victory' (1955), and several more. There are also scores for the Columbia Broadcasting System programme "Twentieth Century," and scores for the United Nations radio service. For CBC - Radio there are scores for "Summer stage" ('Always a librarian--never a bride,' 'Burlap bags,' 'For whom the horses run,' 'Prophecy at dawn,' 'Tidewater morning,'), "Wednesday night" ('Antigone,' 'Hamlet,' 'Juno and the paycock,' 'The playboy of the western world,' 'The shaking tent,' 'Words & music,'), and others. For theatre there are scores for Stratford productions including 'Anthony and Cleopatra' (1967, 1976), 'Coriolanus,' (1961), 'Cyrano,' (1963), 'Hamlet,' (1957, 1969) 'King Lear,' (1964) 'Much ado about nothing,' (1958, 1980, 1987) 'Twelfth night,' (1966, 1985), 'Macbeth,' (1978), 'Cymberline,' (1986), 'Mystery of Henry Moore,' (1984), 'The man who hid Anne Frank,' (1980), as well as other theatre productions in Toronto and New York.

Clippings

Series consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, arranged by year, in the first instance, and then arranged by subject (Duke Ellington, National Film Board, Stratford Festival).

Papers related to Louis Applebaum's career as composer and administrator

Series consists of newspaper clippings, some arranged chronologically, others by subject (Stratford, Canadian League of Composers), as well as printed material, correspondence, speeches, sketches, scores, drafts, catalogues and calendars of festivals. There are also programmes for performances, which are arranged by cultural activity (dance, music, theatre, etc). There are printed materials, including periodicals, arranged by title, including 'Bulletin from the Canadian Conference of the Arts,' 'Artscanada','Canadian composer,''Musicanada,' and reports of cultural institutions and agencies, and academic and government studies, including those in which Applebaum was a participant. Also included are records related to the creation of his last opera Errowhon (1996-1999).

Films

Series includes copies of films for which Applebaum provided scores including, 'Coal face Canada,' 'A man and his job,' 'Thirteen platoon,' 'This is Canada,' ‘The Story of G.I. Joe’ and other titles.

Film : Miscellaneous Scores (F-8)

  1. The Eye (Victory Loan), October 1942.- score 2. The Hand (Newsclip), October 1942.- score 3. Industrial Workers, January 1942. -National Film Board- score 4. Mask of Nippon (Inside Nazi Japan), August 1942.-National Film Board- score 5. The Mouth (Newsclip), October 1942. -producer: Sydney Newman, - score 6.Ragan No. 2, June 1942.-National Film Board- score- parts -script 7. Ragan No. 3, October 1942.-National Film Board-score

Phonographs

Series consists of audio discs of Applebaum's works, including glass discs, some with Applebaum playing the score, many for which there are also scripts in Series 1. The recordings include, 'Coal face,' 'Dollar dance,' 'Thirteen platoon,' 'Welcome soldier,' 'Juno and the paycock,' 'The rape of Lucretia,' and other titles. In addition, there are recordings that formed part of Applebaum's private collection.

Handle With Care

-National Film Board -producer: Graham McInnes -director: George L ' George -recorded at CBL, Toronto (on disc), June 25, 1943

Coal Face Canada

  • National Film Board - CBC Playhouse, October 5, 1943 - producer: Graham McInnes - director: Robert Edmunds - recorded at Double System (?), Toront

A Man and His Job

-CBC Playhouse, October 19, 1943 -National Film Board -producer: Dallas Jones -director: Allister Taylor -recorded at Double System, Toronto

Film : Dollar Dance (F-24), 1942 & I'm the Proudest Girl in the World (F-24)

Dollar Dance (See also file 862) - National Film Board - script by Norman McLaren - score - sketches - script I'm the Proudest Girl in the World - Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) film clip - script by Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne - music by Frank Shuster, Johnny Wayne and Louis Applebaum - score (see also OVERSIZED score, file 346) - sketches - script - notes - sketches: 1943

Film : Military Law (F-7)

  • National Film Board - producer: Julian Roffman - director: Ted Scythes - recorded at CBC Studio C, Toronto, November 19, 1943 - score - sketches

Photographs

Series consists for the most part of publicity stills for productions in which Applebaum was involved, at Stratford, on CBC, Hollywood, etc. The photographs are sub-divided by form of productions (drama, music, film). In addition, there are photographs (arranged by subject) of people and events, and a photographic plate for a portrait of Applebaum (1950s).

Film : Story of G. I. Joe (F-44)

  • producer: Lester Cowan - director: William A. Wellman - script by Ernie Pyle - music by Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell - score - sketches - script - notes - programmes

The Thrift Plan

  • A. Ragan for Standard Oil (ESSO) - recorded at R.C.A. Studio, New York, October 2, 1945

Film : Rackets (F-3)

  • cartoon by Jim MacKay - recorded at R. C. A., New York, August 17, 1945 - score - script - MUSICAL SEQUENCE SHEETS (ANIMATION cue sheets) - notes - sketches: Jim MacKay, 1945

Film : Three Blind Mice (F-6)

  • National Film Board - producer: George Dunning - recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, New York - score - sketches - script - notes - sketches: George Dunning, 1945

New Faces Come Back and Out of the Ruins

New Faces Come Back - H.C.A.F. Film Unit - producer: Cecil Maiden - recorded at Queensway Studio, Toronto, February 21, 1946 Out of the Ruins, 1946. (See also file 66) - UNRRA film on Greece - producer: Tom Daly - director: Nicholas Read - recorded at Fox Movietone, New York, June 4, 1946

Film : Miscellaneous Sketches (F-59)

  1. Bar Mitzvah, 1956.- includes shot list 2. Czechoslovakia (M.O.T.), n. d. 3. Dance Pimento, June 1947. - includes score (OVERSIZED: see file 330) 4. Land of the Bible (March of Time), n. d. 5. UNRRA Problem (Unemployed), June 1947 – includes score (OVERSIZED: see file 361)
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