Sir Ernest MacMillan, conductor
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Timeline Stories
February 1936 – The TMC presented the Canadian premiere of Sir William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.
Belshazzar’s Feast Canadian Premiere
Timeline Stories
December 1932. TMC’s first performance of Handel’s Messiah. The Choir has performed Messiah every year since and has recorded it a number of times.
Messiah – let us count the times
Timeline Stories
April 1929. Memorial stained glass window to Augustus Vogt, the Choir’s founder and first conductor, is unveiled at St. Paul’s Bloor Street.
Vogt Memorial Stained Glass Window
Timeline Stories
TMC commissions composer Healey Willan. He composes An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts for the Choir.
Healey Willan – Dean of Canadian Composers
Timeline Stories
February 1910 – The Choir President receives flowery thanks from the choristers for a successful 1909-10 tour to Buffalo and Cleveland.
Chorister love expressed in illuminated calligraphy
Timeline Stories
January 1895 – The Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, under conductor Augustus Vogt, presents its first concert.
TMC’s first concert