Violet Archer
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Violet Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist.
Portrait of Violet Archer
Violet Archer on graduation day, Yale University.
Schulich School of Music
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The Schulich School of Music is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 555, Rue Sherbrooke Ouest. The faculty was named after the benefacto
Violet Archer
…to New York in the summer of 1942 to study composition, including Hungarian folk music and variation technique, with Béla Bartók. She taught at the McGill Conservatory from 1944-47. Later in the 1940s she studied with Paul Hindemith at Yale, where she earned a B.Mus. (1948) and an M.Mus. (1949). From 1950-53, Archer…
Strathcona Music Building
The Strathcona Music Building (at left) and the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (at right)
The Strathcona Music Building (foreground) was built in 1901; a new music building (background) was opened in 2005.
McGill faculty Music department