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    Iwan Edwards

    Iwan Edwards. Choral conductor, orchestral conductor (born 5 October 1937 in Wales; died 4 March 2022 in Lachine, QC). B MUS (University College of Wales) 1961. Listening to the London Symphony Orchestra and directing choirs in his youth inspired Iwan Edwards to pursue a career in music. He completed an undergraduate degree in violin at the University of Wales in 1961 and was subsequently offered a scholarship in orchestral conducting at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music (London). He declined the scholarship, dedicating himself instead to professional teaching and directing.

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    J.-Alexandre Gilbert

    (Joseph) J.-Alexandre Gilbert. Violinist, teacher, b Quebec City 8 Sep 1867, d there 5 Jan 1950; honorary D MUS (Laval) 1922. Gilbert began his musical studies at the Collège de Lévis and with A.E.

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    J. Churchill Arlidge

    J. (Joseph) Churchill Arlidge. Flutist, organist, teacher, composer, b Stratford-on-Avon, Eng, 17 Mar 1849, d Toronto 22 Jan 1913.

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    J.-G. Yon

    Yon, J.-G. (Joseph-Georges). Publisher, music dealer, b Montreal 25 Jan 1857, d there 11 May 1945.

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    Jean-Josaphat Gagnier

    J.-J. (Jean-Josaphat) Gagnier. Conductor, composer, clarinetist, bassoonist, pianist, administrator, teacher, b Montreal 2 Dec 1885, d there 16 Sep 1949; D MUS (Montreal) 1934.

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    J.-J. Goulet

    J.-J. (Joseph-Jean) Goulet. Violinist, conductor, bandmaster, teacher, b Liège 22 Feb 1870, naturalized Canadian 1938, d Montreal 8 Jul 1951; premier prix solfège, theory, harmony (Liège Conservatoire) 1884, premier prix violin, chamber music (Liège Conservatoire) 1889.

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    J. O. LaMadeleine

    J. (Joseph) O. (Ovila) LaMadeleine. Violoneux, b Valleyfield, Que, 1 May 1880, d Montreal 28 Jan 1973. He took up the violin at 10 - he played the instrument left-handed - and was an accomplished fiddler when he moved in 1919 to Montreal.

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    J. Russell Harper

    J. Russell Harper, art historian (b at Caledonia, Ont 13 Apr 1914; d at Cornwall, Ont 17 Nov 1983).

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    J.-Ulric Voyer

    Joseph Joachim Ulric Voyer, opera composer, playwright, music teacher, organist and court clerk (born 5 July 1892 in Québec City, Québec; died 8 January 1935 in Québec City).

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    Jacinthe Couture

    (Marie Jeanne Henriette) Jacinthe Couture. Pianist, teacher, b St-Gédéon, near Chicoutimi, Que, 4 Nov 1950; M MUS piano (Laval) 1971. Jacinthe Couture studied piano 1967-71 at Laval University with Anna-Marie Globenski and Robert Weisz.

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    Jack Arthur

    Jack Arthur. Producer, conductor, arranger, violinist, b Glasgow 10 Jun 1889, d Toronto 30 Mar 1971. He was a child prodigy of the violin and toured at 7 with his mother (the opera singer Jean Gifford) in the company of the Scottish tenor Harry Lauder.

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    Jack Barkin

    Jack (Jacob) Barkin. Tenor, b Uman, Ukraine, 23 Apr 1914, naturalized Canadian ca 1930, d Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 15 Jan 1996. He studied voice with his father, Abraham, and subsequently at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and in Philadelphia.

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    Jack Behrens

    Jack Behrens. Teacher, composer, b Lancaster, Pa, 25 Mar 1935; B SC (Juilliard) 1958, M SC (Juilliard) 1959, PH D (Harvard) 1973. His composition teachers were William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin at the Juilliard School and Leon Kirchner and Roger Sessions at Harvard U.

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    Jack Carson

    Jack Carson, born John Elmer Carson, actor (b at Carman, Man 27 Oct 1910; d at Encino, Ca 2 Jan 1963). Jack Carson's family moved across the border to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when he was a child.

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    Jack Chambers

    Trained in Spain and naturally a traditionalist, Jack Chambers is an acknowledged master of what he termed “perceptual realism” and one of the most critically and financially successful artists of his generation. In addition, his experimental films are regarded as among the most important films of their genre.

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