Finding Aid
Victor Di Bello fonds. -- [1948?]-[198-]; predominant 1955-1965 -- .3 m of textual records -- 1 photograph.
Series 1 - Scrapbooks, correspondence and clippings
F. 1 Scrapbook, 1955 - 1963.
Clippings concern the early career of Victor Di Bello and productions of the Pro Arte orchestra.
F. 2 Photograph of Victor Di Bello at the piano,
East York Collegiate, [1948?].
F. 3 Correspondence concerning conductor's course with Herbert von Karajan, 1955,
3 letters, brochure, 3 flyers and clipping a magazine article (in German).
F. 4 Women's Committee of the Pro Arte Orchestra Society - membership list, undated.
F. 5 Clippings, 1957 - 1965 (most found inserted in scrapbook in F. 1)
F. 6 Programmes and flyers for Pro Arte performances, 1953-1965, 12 items.
F. 7 Posters for Pro Arte performances, 1955 - 1961, 3 items.
F. 8 Flyers and programmes for Pro Arte performances, 1957-1963, 9 items.
F. 9 Telegrams of congratulation and good wishes, 1958-1959, 5 items. Also death notice for Otto Stache, 1958.
F. 10 Letters of support for Di Bello in the 1962 Dimitri Mitropolous Competition for Conductors (photocopies); letters written by Walter Susskind, Ettore Mazzoleni and Glenn Gould, 3 items.
F. 11 Contract between Pro Arte Orchestra Society and Gwenlynn Little, dated 3 May 1963, 1p.
F. 12 Scrapbook, 1960 - 1966. Clippings concern music at Stratford Festival.
F. 13 Clippings concerning Stratford Festival, 1962-1965, found inserted in scrapbook in F. 10.
F. 14 Clipping of article by Di Bello; "Blending Steel, Symphony", Globe and Mail, May 13 1961.
F. 15 Brochures and clippings relating to Toscanini, Walter Susskind and Sir Ernest MacMillan, 1957-1980, 3 items. Also draft of a letter by Di Bello to "Caro Maestro" (Susskind?), 6 February 1980.
F. 16 Tickets - 2 to Pro Arte performance, 1957 and 1 to a lecture by Di Bello "Something's Rocking in Stratford", 1969.
F. 17 Humourous articles (photocopies), 2 items.
F. 18 Articles about music in Hamilton, 1984 and undated, clipping and photocopy, 2 items.
Series 2 - Music Scores
F. 19 Sonata for String Orchestra by Samuel Dolin, Original manuscript, signed and dated January 1962; dedicated to Victor Di Bello and the Pro Arte Orchestra,
66p.
F. 20 Sonata for String Orchestra by Samuel Dolin, reproduced copy and shipping order slip, February 1962.
F. 21 Chorale Symphony by Paul Pedersen, Original manuscript, undated, 54p.
F. 22 Seven Songs for Soprano and String Quartet by Adolph Weiss, Piano-vocal score, reproduced copy, undated (but not earlier than 1957), 19p.
F. 23 Symphony No. 2, Beethoven, Op. 36, Second clarinet part, printed music, undated, 8p.
F.24 Symphony No. 2, Beethoven, Op. 36, Second violin part, printed music, undated, 12p.
