Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Victoria Symphony Society fonds
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Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
CA UVICARCH AR234
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Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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1941-1984, predominant 1953-1974 (Creation)
- Creator
- Victoria Symphony Society
Physical description area
Physical description
2.9 m of textual records
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Archival description area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The Victoria Symphony was founded in 1941 as a community orchestra comprised of 32 members taken from the Royal Canadian Navy. The ensemble had its first performance 18 May 1942 at the Empress Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom under the direction of Melvin Knudsen. In 1943 the group moved to the Royal Theatre and performed three or four concerts per season. On 12 May 1948 the Victoria Symphony Society was incorporated.
By the mid-1970s the orchestra was fully professional. Directors have included Melvin Knudsen (1941-1948), Hans Gruber (1948-1964), Otto Werner Mueller (1964-1967), Laszlo Gati (1967-1978), Paul Freeman (1979-1988), Peter McCoppin (1989-1999), Kees Bakels (1999-2001), Timothy Vernon (2001-2003), Tania Miller (2003-2017), and Christian Kluxen (2017-).
Custodial history
Scope and content
Fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, fund raising records, financial records, conductors files, guest artists files, legal agreements, arrangements for tours, scrapbooks of clippings, and programmes.
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Finding aids
File list available.
Associated materials
Accruals
Accession 1984-058; 1995-021
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Victoria Symphony Society (Subject)
- Victoria Symphony Orchestra (Subject)
Genre access points
- correspondence
- minutes (administrative records)
- financial records
- scrapbooks
- clippings (information artifacts)
- programs (documents)
- constitutions
- legal documents
- budgets
- financial statements
- newsletters
- posters
- lists (document genres)
- proposals
- photographs
- slides (photographs)
- brochures
- newspaper clippings
Control area
Description record identifier
victoria-symphony-society-fonds
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Rules or conventions
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2013-02-05
Language of description
- English
Script of description
Sources
Digital object metadata
Filename
Victoria_Symphony_Society_AR234_FIND.pdf
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Text
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application/pdf