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    BMG Music Canada Inc / Musique BMG du Canada Inc.

    BMG Music Canada Inc / Musique BMG du Canada Inc. (successively, 1929-86, RCA Victor Co, Ltd, RCA Inc, RCA Limited/Limitée). Record company which began as the Victor Talking Machine Co in Camden, NJ, in 1901.

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    Boîtes à chansons

    Boîtes à chansons. Name given to the intimate rooms which sprang up in the mid-1950s outside the normal entertainment circuits and in which most young Quebec chansonniers made their start.

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    Book Review: Shakey (Neil Young Biography)

    This was supposed to come from the horse's mouth. It was all lined up, a rare interview with old crazy horse himself.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 13, 2002

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    Boot Records Ltd.

    Boot Records Ltd. Country-music label formed in 1971 in Toronto by Stompin' Tom Connors and his manager Jury Krytiuk.

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    Border Scottish Choir of Windsor

    Border Scottish Choir of Windsor. A mixed-voice choir of 130, founded in 1924 by H.

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    Bornoff School of Music and Associated Arts

    Bornoff School of Music and Associated Arts. Founded in Winnipeg by George Bornoff. It opened on Bannatyne Ave on 1 Sep 1937, offering instruction in violin, piano, clarinet, voice, theory, sculpture, fine arts, and public speaking.

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    Boss Brass

    Boss Brass. Toronto jazz orchestra (big band) led by Rob McConnell. It was formed in 1968 as a 16-piece band composed of the city's leading studio musicians to record arrangements of pop songs of the day for CTL.

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    Both Sides Now

    'Both Sides Now.' Song, sometimes known as 'Clouds,' by Joni Mitchell. Written ca 1968, it was recorded in 1968 by the US folksinger Judy Collins and by the US pop group Harpers Bizarre.

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    Brandon University Trio

    Brandon University Trio (formerly Halifax Trio). One of Canada's longest-lived chamber ensembles.

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    Brass

    Besides fulfilling traditional military and ceremonial functions, brass instruments have accompanied services in churches, played a pioneer role in the development of ensemble playing, participated in orchestral performances, and simply displayed their own gleaming brand of virtuosity.

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    Brébeuf

    Brébeuf, B29. Healey Willan's setting, for two narrators, choir, and orchestra, of E.J. Pratt's poem 'Brébeuf and His Brethren' (Toronto 1940), which tells the story of the 17th-century missionary (1593-1649) among the Hurons.

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    British Columbia Association of Community Music Schools

    British Columbia Association of Community Music Schools. Organized in 1987 to promote the establishment of and provide support for independent, non-profit conservatories and music schools.

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    British Columbia Association of Performing Arts Festivals

    British Columbia Association of Performing Arts Festivals (British Columbia Music Festival Association 1964-82). Provincial umbrella organization founded in 1964 (after informal discussions held as early as 1961) at a meeting of representatives of urban competition festivals.

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    British Columbia Choral Federation

    British Columbia Choral Federation (BCCF). Founded in 1978 as a service organization for those interested in choral music in British Columbia. The membership is drawn from choirs, individual singers, conductors, audience members, music institutions, and corporations.

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    British Columbia Music Educators' Association

    British Columbia Music Educators' Association (BCMEA). Organization founded in 1957 with Sherwood Robson as president.

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