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Klaro Mizerit
Klaro (Maria) Mizerit,. Conductor, composer, b Monfalcone, Italy, 12 Aug 1914 of Slovenian parents, naturalized Canadian 1973, d Halifax, 3 Jan 2007. Klaro Mizerit studied violin, conducting, and composition 1941-8, receiving diplomas from the academies of music of Ljubljana and Vienna.
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Klee Wyck
Klee Wyck (1941) is a memoir by Emily Carr, consisting of a collection of literary sketches. It is an evocative work that describes in vivid detail the influence that the Indigenous people and culture of the Northwest Coast had on Carr. Klee Wyck (“Laughing One”) is the name the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people gave her. The book won a Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction in 1941 and has been translated into French.
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Kornelius Neufeld
Kornelius (Herman) Neufeld. Choir conductor, educator, administrator, composer, b Nikolajewa, south Russia, 10 Dec 1892, d Winkler, Man, 14 Jan 1957. As a youth he studied voice at the Moscow Cons and with Max Pohl in Berlin and sang in Moscow's Simin Opera Chorus.
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Kosso Eloul
Eloul's characteristic monumental sculptures grace the public spaces of many Canadian cities. His gleaming rectangles of highly polished aluminum or stainless steel are balanced precariously at unusual angles, testing and probing the laws of gravity.
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Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, jazz singer and pianist (b at Nanaimo, BC, 16 Nov 1964). She went from Nanaimo to the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a teenager, and later studied piano in Los Angeles with Alan Broadbent and Jimmy Rowles and in Toronto with Don Thompson.
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Kraus, Greta
Greta Kraus. Harpsichordist, pianist, accompanist, teacher, b Vienna 3 Aug 1907, naturalized Canadian 1944, d Toronto, 30 Mar 1998. She entered the Vienna Academy of Music in 1923 and received a Music Teacher's Diploma in 1930.
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Kristi Allik
Kristi (Anne) Allik. Composer, teacher, b Toronto 6 Feb 1952; B MUS (Toronto) 1975, MFA (Princeton) 1977, DMA (Southern California) 1982. Her composition teachers included John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, and Lothar Klein in Canada, and James Hopkins, Frederick Leesman, and Milton Babbitt in the USA.
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Kristjana Gunnars
Kristjana Gunnars, poet, writer, editor, translator (b at Reykjavik, Iceland 19 Mar 1948). Kristjana Gunnars was educated at Oregon State University and, after immigrating to Canada in 1969, at the University of Regina and the University of Manitoba.
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Kryn Taconis
Kryn Taconis, photographer (b at Rotterdam, Holland 7 May 1918; d at Toronto 12 July 1979). In the 1960s and 1970s, he became one of Canada's leading photojournalists, known for his integrity and compassion. The outbreak of WWII shaped his career in still photography.
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L'actualité
L'actualité, a French-language monthly magazine published in Montréal, was founded in 1909 as Bulletin paroissial and edited until 1945 by the Jesuit Armand Proulx.
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La Bottine souriante
Founded by folklorists Mario Forest, Yves Lambert, André Marchand, Gilles Cantin and Pierre Laporte in 1976, La Bottine souriante presents a repertoire of traditional folk music collected from the regions of Québec.
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La Bottine souriante
La Bottine souriante. Vocal and instrumental folk ensemble, formed in 1976 in Joliette, Que, by the accordion and harmonica player Yves Lambert and others.
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La Cantoria
La Cantoria. Montreal choir with a nucleus of about 30 voices, founded ca 1939, and directed by Victor Brault. It performed choral works with one or two pianos as well as operas and oratorios. Its aim was to promote Canadian music and partsongs and folksongs from other countries.
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La Chapelle de Québec
La Chapelle de Québec. Professional choir, known as the Ensemble vocal Bernard Labadie 1985-91, founded in Quebec City in 1985 by Bernard Labadie; it existed informally before that year.
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La Petite Maîtrise de Montréal
La Petite Maîtrise de Montréal. Children's choir school founded in 1938 by Alfred Bernier, who was its sole director. He undertook to assemble a choir of boys of from 8 to 15, first approaching the Garnier school in the parish of the Immaculée-Conception.
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