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Rachel McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams, actor (born 17 November 1978 in London, ON). Rachel McAdams is perhaps best known as a leading lady in such Hollywood romances as The Notebook (2004), The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) and The Vow (2012). After graduating with a BFA from York University in 2001, she made a meteoric rise to stardom, going from a Gemini Award-winning role in the Canadian TV series Slings & Arrows (2003) to her breakthrough Hollywood performance in the hit high school comedy Mean Girls (2004). She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2014 and received Screen Actors Guild and Oscar nominations for her supporting performance in the Oscar-winning Spotlight (2015).
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Rachel McAdams (Profile)
"THE HAMMER terrifies me," says Rachel McAdams, referring to a powerful overhead Frisbee throw and not the tool.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 18, 2005
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Rafael Masella
Rafael (Raffaele) Masella. Clarinetist, teacher, composer, b Montreal 1 Oct 1922; L MUS (McGill) 1939, premier prix clarinet (Paris Conservatory) 1948.
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Raffaele Masella
Raffaele Masella. Clarinetist, cabinet-maker, wood-carver, b Ischitella, Italy, 12 Mar 1865, naturalized Canadian 1908, d Montreal 31 Dec 1952. He was a clarinetist in 1898 in the Banda Bianca in San Severo, Italy, before coming in 1905 to Montreal, where his family joined him four years later.
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Raffi
Raffi Cavoukian, CC, OBC, singer-songwriter, guitarist (born 8 July 1948 in Cairo, Egypt). Raffi has released almost 30 albums and published over a dozen books over the course of his career, selling more than a million albums in Canada and nearly twenty million albums worldwide. “Baby Beluga,” “Apples and Bananas,” and “Shake My Sillies Out” are among Raffi's most popular children's songs. Raffi was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1983 and was promoted to Companion in 2025. He was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 2001.
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Ralls, Stephen
Stephen Ralls. Pianist, producer, vocal coach, b Hertford, England, 1 Jul 1944; MA (Merton College, Oxford) 1967, LRAM (London) 1969. Stephen Ralls studied privately with Frederick Jackson, Rex Stephens, and Geraint Jones.
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Ralph Allen
Ralph Allen, journalist, editor, novelist (b at Winnipeg 25 Aug 1913; d at Toronto 2 Dec 1966). One of the best-loved and most influential editors of his day, Allen was justly famous for his work at Maclean's (1946-60) and the Toronto Star (1964-66).
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Ralph Bowen
Ralph Bowen. Saxophonist, flutist, composer, b Guelph, Ont, 24 Dec 1961; B Mus (Rutgers) 1989. He studied with Pat LaBarbera first at the Banff Jazz Workshop in 1978, then privately in Toronto until 1983.
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Ralph Grierson
Ralph (Edwin) Grierson. Pianist, harpsichordist, keyboard synthesist, composer, b New Westminster, BC, 23 Jun 1942; B MUS (Southern California) 1966, M MUS (Southern California) 1968. His teachers 1948-62 in New Westminster, BC, and in Vancouver were Priscilla Eastman, Glenn Nelson, and Glen Geary.
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Ralph Gustafson
Ralph Gustafson, poet, professor (b at Lime Ridge, Qué 16 Aug 1909; d at North Hatley, Qué 29 May 1995). Gustafson wrote more than 20 books of poetry and edited several important anthologies of Canadian verse; he has also published 2 books of short stories.
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Ralph Horner
Ralph (Joseph) Horner. Conductor, composer, teacher, b Newport, Monmouthshire (now in Gwent, Wales), 28 Apr 1848, d Winnipeg 7 Apr 1926; B MUS (Durham) 1893, D MUS (Durham) 1898. He studied 1864-7 at the Leipzig Cons and returned ca 1868 to London, where he conducted choirs and operatic productions.
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Ramón Pelinski
Ramón Pelinski, musicologist, teacher, pianist (born 31 August 1932 in Corpus, Misiones, Argentina; died 6 July 2015). L PH (Córdoba) 1959, MA musicology (Munich) 1967, PH D musicology (Munich) 1969.
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Ramona Luengen
Choral conductor Ramona Luengen (courtesy Alex Waterhouse-Hayward).\r\nLuengen, Ramona Ramona (Maria) Luengen. Composer, choral conductor, teacher, b Vancouver 29 Dec 1960; B MUS (British Columbia) 1983, ARCT (Piano Performance) 1986, M MUS (Composition) (British Columbia) 1986, DMA (Toronto) 1996. Studying composition with Cortland Hultberg and piano with Jane Coop, Ramona Luengen completed a master's degree in 1986 before pursuing a doctorate in composition at the University of Toronto under Harry Freedman and John Hawkins 1990-1, and...
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