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New Recordings

The following Ottawa performers have recorded songs and piano music specifically for this site: Garth Hampson, baritone; and pianists Frances Macdonnell and Art Lawless.

Frances Macdonnell
Copyright/Source		Ottawa-born organist, composer and conductor Frances Macdonnell, BA, FRCO, first studied under organist and composer Godfrey Hewitt. She obtained her B.A. from Queen's University and later studied music in London, England. In 1980, she succeeded Dr. Hewitt as organist and choirmaster of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Ottawa, a position she held until her retirement in 2003. She toured the Western Arctic with the Cathedral Choir in 1989 and has given workshops for organists in Iqaluit. She has composed many choral works, some of which reflect the northern experience, and has made twelve recordings.
Frances Macdonnell
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Garth Hampson
Baritone Garth Hampson was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and studied at the Regina Conservatory of Music. He was a member of the entertainment group, Plus Six in Song and sang as soloist with the Savoy Society of Ottawa. After 34 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, many of them as soloist with the RCMP Band, he retired from police work. He continues to perform, however, and is equally at home singing opera, operetta, music hall, or oratorio repertoire.		Copyright/Source
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Art Lawless

A native of Kingston, Ontario, Art has been a commercial pianist involved in virtually every aspect of popular music in Ottawa since the 1960s -- dance bands, clubs, recordings, broadcasts and shows -- and has accompanied such performers as Dinah Shore, Ginette Reno, Dionne Warwick and Rich Little. He has performed in Canada, the USA, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 2003, Art contributed to locally released recordings by Scott Poll, Tom Denison and Dick Maloney. In 2004, Art is working on compositions, regular performances at Ottawa's Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, and a developing musical troupe called The Northwest Mounted.

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Art Lawless at the piano		Art Lawless at the piano

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Commercial Releases

We are pleased to include excerpts from the following commercially released compact discs. We thank the recording companies for making these selections available for use on this site.

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À la claire fontaine : music in Krieghoff's Quebec = La musique québécoise au temps de Krieghoff. -- The Beckwith Ensemble. -- Burlington, Ontario : Opening Day Recordings (ODR 9321), 2000

• John Beckwith, piano, harmonium; Lisa Lindo, soprano; Darryl Edwards, tenor; Dianne Aitken, flute, piccolo; David Greenberg, violin; Trevor Tureski, percussion

Title	Composer
Danse sauvage : Stadaconé	Gagnon, Ernest
Quadrille canadien	Dessane, Antoine
La Mère canadienne	Dessane, Antoine
Écho malin	Blain de Saint-Aubin, E. arr. Dessane
L'Alouette	Sabatier, Charles W.
La Huronne	Lavigueur, Célestin

For further information, please contact Opening Day Recordings at www.openingday.com/odr.htm.

"By a Canadian lady" : piano music, 1841-1997. -- Nepean, Ontario : Carleton Sound, (CSCD-1006), 1999

• Elaine Keillor, piano

Title	Composer
Molto felice impromptu	Hatton, Frances J.
Dialogue from 'Trois equisses canadiennes'	Harrison, Susie Frances

Diana Gilchrist sings songs of Canada. -- Nepean, Ontario : Carleton Sound (CSCD-1003), 1999

• Diana Gilchrist, soprano; Shelley Katz, piano

Title	Composer
Mädchenherz	Lucas, Clarence
L'absence	Lavallée, Calixa
When Johnny Canuck comes home	Godfrey, H.H.

Canadians at the keyboard. - Nepean, Ontario : Carleton Sound (CSCD-1008), 2000

• Elaine Keillor, piano.

Title	Composer
Magic bell polka	Strathy, George
Le Papillon	Lavallée, Calixa
Souffle parfumé	Vézina, Joseph
Tintamarre	Anger, J. Humphrey

For further information, please contact Carleton Sound at www.carleton.ca/carletonsound/.