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    Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

    Her concert career peaked in 1929 with performances in America, where she was championed by Leopold Stokowski.

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    Sophie Clément

    Sophie Clément, actress, playwright, director, teacher (born 18 September 1943 in Montreal, QC). A key figure on the Quebec theatre scene, Clément played more than 80 characters, in addition to writing (Le Génie amoureux, written with Marcel Lebœuf, Masque du public Loto-Québec 1998) and directing, as well as sharing her love of literature through teaching, notably at CEGEP Lionel-Groulx (1972–97).

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    Sophie Rolland

    Sophie Rolland. Cellist, b Montreal 18 Jul 1961; premier prix cello (CMM) 1981, Diplôme d'études supérieures (Quebec Department of Education) 1981. She began her musical studies in piano at age five at the École Vincent-d'Indy.

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    Sorel Etrog

    Sorel Etrog, CM, artist, writer, philosopher (born 29 August 1933 in Laşi, Romania; died 26 February 2014 in Toronto, Ontario). For more than half a century, Sorel Etrog was one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary sculptors. 

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    Public Figures in Canadian Music

    Certain dignitaries, explorers, and political and religious leaders have contributed to Canada's musical history through their own musical talents, as patrons of the arts or passively as dedicatees of Canadian compositions.

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    Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson, novelist, short-story writer, columnist (b at New York, NY 24 Nov 1948). An award-winning SCIENCE FICTION writer, Spider Robinson was educated at the State University of New York and moved to Canada in 1973.

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    Spirit of the West

    Spirit of the West is a Celtic folk-rock group, founded in Vancouver in 1983. The original trio featured John Mann (b Winnipeg), Geoffrey Kelly (b Dumfries, Scotland) and J. Knutson. Subsequent personnel changes brought in Hugh MacMillan, Linda McRae and the group's first drummer, Vince Ditrich.

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    Spirit of the West

    Spirit of the West. Folk (later folk-rock) group. It was formed in 1983 in Vancouver by Geoffrey Kelly (flute, whistle, bodhran) and Jay Knutson (guitar, bouzouki) with John Mann (guitar, vocals). Knutson left in 1987; Hugh McMillan (bass, mandolin) was a member 1986-8 and returned in 1989.

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    Spitfire Band

    Spitfire Band. Toronto dance band, formed in 1981 as a studio orchestra by the singer Jackie Rae, with the trumpeter Mickey Erbe as music director and arranger and the trombonist Laurie Bower as vocal arranger.

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    Spring Hurlbut

    Spring Hurlbut, artist (b at Toronto, Ont 11 April 1952) studied art at the ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN from 1971 to 1973 and at the NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN from 1973 to 1975. For many years, Hurlbut was concerned with exploring conjunctions between art and architecture.

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    Srul Irving Glick

    One of Canada's most prolific composers, Glick wrote in all media, including chamber music, oratorio, vocal and choral works, integrating the Jewish religious musical idiom into his compositions. His works are noted for their lyricism and emotional appeal.

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    Srul Irving Glick

    Srul Irving (b Israel) Glick. Composer, radio producer, conductor, teacher, b Toronto 8 Sep 1934, d Toronto 17 Apr 2002; B MUS (Toronto) 1955, M MUS (Toronto), honorary FRCCO (1993).

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    St Clair Balfour

    St. Clair Balfour, OC, DSC, publisher (born 30 April 1910 in Hamilton, ON; died 9 May 2002 in Toronto, ON). 

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    St David's Welsh Male Voice Choir

    St David's Welsh Male Voice Choir. Latest in a linked succession of choirs in Edmonton. The first, the Orpheus Male Voice Choir, was organized in 1908 by a group of men who had emigrated from Europe.

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    St George B. Crozier

    St George B. (Baron le Poer) Crozier. Teacher, conductor, composer, b Dover, England, 13 May 1814, d Belleville Ont, 21 Nov 1892. The few isolated known facts of Crozier's life suggest that he was a musician of more than ordinary merit.

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