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DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:
  Prof. Robin Elliott (University of Toronto)\n\n\n \n\nTitle:\n	 \n\nPostwa
 r Musical Migration to Canada: Five Artefacts\n\n \n\nAbstract\n\n\n	Approx
 imately 100 refugee musicians from Europe migrated to Canada between 1937 
 and 1950. The majority of these migrants were Jewish musicians who had suf
 fered from persecution and life-threatening conditions in Nazi-occupied Eu
 rope during the Second World War. Up to 1947\, the obstacles to Jewish imm
 igration to Canada were among the most restrictive in the world. As a resu
 lt\, only a handful of Jewish musicians managed to find safe haven in Cana
 da between 1937 and 1947. Towards the end of his final term in office\, Pr
 ime Minister Mackenzie King finally opened the borders to displaced person
 s from refugee camps in Europe in 1947. Within the next seven years\, over
  165\,000 displaced persons immigrated to Canada\, including ca. 100 music
 ians. These men and women made transformative contributions to the musical
  life of Canada in many different areas\, including but not limited to adm
 inistration\, composition\, education\, patronage\, performance\, and scho
 larship. The last members of this generation of musicians died within the 
 past three years. This presentation will describe the efforts of an ongoin
 g research project which is seeking to document the careers of these music
 ians and their varied contributions to Canada’s musical life\, as a contin
 uation of the work begun by the former ɬÀï·¬ professor Paul He
 lmer in his book Growing with Canada: The Émigré Tradition in Canadian Mus
 ic (MQUP\, 2009). We will look at five artefacts as examples of tangible c
 ultural heritage left behind by this generation of musicians and consider 
 how these physical objects document the ongoing impact of the activities o
 f these refugees on the musical life of Canada.\n\n	Biography\n\n\n\n	\n		Born
  and raised in Kingston\, Ontario\, Robin Elliott studied music at Queen’s
  University\, the Vienna Conservatory\, and the University of Toronto\, fr
 om which he graduated in 1990 with a PhD in musicology. He moved to Dublin
  in 1996 to become a faculty member at University College Dublin. In 2002\
 , he returned to the University of Toronto as the Jean A. Chalmers Chair i
 n Canadian Music and the Director of the Institute for Music in Canada\, a
 nd he remains in those positions today.\n	\n\n\n \n
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LOCATION:C-201\, Strathcona Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\,
  555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music): Robin Elliott
URL:/music/channels/event/doctoral-colloquium-music-ro
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