About Eldon Rathburn
Eldon (Davis) Rathburn. Composer, pianist, organist, teacher, b Queenstown, NB, 21 Apr 1916, d Ottawa 30 Aug 2008; L MUS (McGill) 1937. After early piano studies with Eric Rollinson in Saint John, NB, where he also played with Don Messer and His Islanders, Eldon Rathburn won a Canadian Performing Rights Society scholarship for his compositions Silhouette (1936) and To a Wandering Cloud (1938). At the Toronto Conservatory of Music 1938-9 he studied composition with Healey Willan, organ with Charles Peaker, and piano with Reginald Godden.
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Short and Suite (1959)
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2 Pieces: Summer Nocturne
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Canon
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Canadian Brass Rag
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2 Pieces for Celesta and String Quartet: No. 1. Summer Nocturne
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Mail Early for Christmas (1959)
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Morning on the Lièvre (1961), Pt. 1
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Manger (1961)
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The Ride (1963)
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Morning on the Lièvre (1961), Pt. 2
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Morning on the Lièvre (1961), Pt. 3
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Sky (1963)
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Canon (1964)
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Ottawa Suite: II. National Arts Centre
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Fanfare
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Schoenberg versus Gershwin
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Ottawa Suite: V. Byward Market
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Birth
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Andante
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Ottawa Suite: IV. Winterlude
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Ottawa Suite: VI. Palladium
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Ottawa Suite: X. Boom City
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The Enduring Wilderness (1963) Pt. 2
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City Faces
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Tranquility
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Concertino for Banjo and String Quartet: II. Lento
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Junction
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The Enduring Wilderness (1963) Pt. 1
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The Enduring Wilderness (1963) Pt. 3
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Subway Thoughts
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The Rockies
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Confident Youth
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City Faces (BasementRug.com remix)
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The Minotaur
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The Wind in my Hand
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04 Canon
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2 Pieces for Celesta and String Quartet: No. 1, Summer Nocturne
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Harbour Nocturne
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A Farewell to Lou
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Ottawa Suite: III. The Senate Sleeps
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Ottawa Suite: VIII. National Gallery of Canada
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A Farewell to Lou for Clarinet and String Quartet
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Fanfare, for Brass Quintet
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2 Pieces: The Cats on Parliament Hill
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Ottawa Suite: IX. Amalgamation
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Ottawa Suite: XI. Parliament Hill
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Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
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Celebration
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Three Calliope Pieces: I. The St. Lawrence Tubular Bridge Mazurka Polka
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Thresherman's Reunion
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