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Music Box

Music Box

Date10/18/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Music Box: That's what Sterling Beckwith of York University calls his computerised machine for producing new music. With this music box, says Beckwith, the student participates in the theory making (of music composing) and immediately tests the workability of (the) theory. Instructions typed into the machine become musical beeps.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0031551F
There's good news as usual from the O'Keefe Centre box office for Harry Belafonte
There's good news as usual from the O'Keefe Centre box office for Harry Belafonte
11/23/1976
The Boy in the Box
The Boy in the Box
2/6/1986
Is that for real, Ronnie? It's Country Music Week in Canada and, with the Canadian Country Music Association's annual convention in Metro until Saturd(...)
Is that for real, Ronnie? It's Country Music Week in Canada and, with the Canadian Country Music Association's annual convention in Metro until Saturd(...)
9/6/1988
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Wee Willie Dixon just stands up there and plays, no jokes, no funny hats, but just great music, says critic Bill Dampier. He sings in the traditional (...)
7/13/1970
Bursting with song, James Brown ran together a seamless stretch of soul music last night in Maple Leaf Gardens, crying and whispering and hollering an(...)
Bursting with song, James Brown ran together a seamless stretch of soul music last night in Maple Leaf Gardens, crying and whispering and hollering an(...)
11/15/1968
No mention: Nicholas Goldschmidt and Herman Geiger-Torel, inset, built the Toronto Faculty of Music from nothing, yet they're not named in new book on Canada's music
No mention: Nicholas Goldschmidt and Herman Geiger-Torel, inset, built the Toronto Faculty of Music from nothing, yet they're not named in new book on Canada's music
4/15/1975
Music is fun. Musician and songwriter Doug Barr seems to have discovered the Pied Piper's magical notes as 4-year-olds Adam Kirch (front) and Lori Ste(...)
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1/21/1981
Tony Bennett's giving music lessons at the Royal Alex
Tony Bennett's giving music lessons at the Royal Alex
10/23/1978
Every Songwriter should be so lucky to have Lena Horne and Tony Bennett sing his songs, says Star music critic William Littler. At O'Keefe Centre last(...)
Every Songwriter should be so lucky to have Lena Horne and Tony Bennett sing his songs, says Star music critic William Littler. At O'Keefe Centre last(...)
10/14/1974
Emerging: It's hard to put a label on Joan Armatrading, whose music is pop but has been called everything from rock, soul, folk and jazz
Emerging: It's hard to put a label on Joan Armatrading, whose music is pop but has been called everything from rock, soul, folk and jazz
3/29/1977
Electric: George Jones, says critic Peter Goddard, demonstrated at the Gardens that he is the ultimate singer of hurtin' songs and the century's signal performer of American popular music
Electric: George Jones, says critic Peter Goddard, demonstrated at the Gardens that he is the ultimate singer of hurtin' songs and the century's signal performer of American popular music
3/20/1982
Victor's back: After several years in the musical wilderness, former Stratford musical director Victor di Bello is back in the music business with his Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
Victor's back: After several years in the musical wilderness, former Stratford musical director Victor di Bello is back in the music business with his Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
11/8/1980