Arnold Walter fonds
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Notes: Educator, administrator, musicologist and composer born in Czechoslovakia and established in Canada in 1937. Toronto, Ont.

Curriculum vitae and passports; certificates, diplomas and other honors; personal and professional correspondence including letters with famous personalities such as Carl Orff, Aaron Copland, Emily Carr and Marshall McLuhan; lectures, conferences, articles, scripts and other writings; manuscript compositions; files related to the International Society for Education, the Interamerican Music Council, the National Arts Centre (planning committee), "Aspects of Music in Canada" (raw material for book), "Music in a Technological Age" (sketches for proposed book), the Orff method for children (introduction in Canada), the folk music studies and files on his trips to Japan, Russia and Austria; newspaper clippings and brochures. Also includes 167 photographs, chiefly of A. Walter, artists and scenes.

No restrictions on consultation.

Finding aids: list; provisional summary description.

File code: MUS 71.