About
The exhibition I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music consists of print scores, audio recordings, related ephemera, and an accompanying listening list curated by Kevin Madill, Music Librarian, the University of British Columbia. Exhibited works were selected from the music collection of UBC Library or borrowed from anonymous sources.
The exhibition talk on September 28, 2023, 4-5 pm, consists of an introduction by Kevin Madill and performances of select works from the 1991 and 1994 University of Malawi Choral Competition by U of T Soprano/Alto and Tenor/Bass chors.
The exhibition runs from September 27, 2023, to December 15, 2023, in the foyers of Music Library and Gerstein Library, University of Toronto, and at Hart House Library.
Curator
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Kevin Madill
Music Librarian
Kevin Madill is Music Librarian at the University of British Columbia. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1955 and spent his formative years living in small towns and on army bases scattered across rural Canada. He holds a Master of Library and Information Studies degree from UBC, a BMus (Honors, Theory and Composition) from Western University, as well as an MFA and a BFA from UBC. Previous positions include library administrator, library manager, and liaison/collections librarian in academic and special libraries in the United States and Canada including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Along with his role as Music Librarian at UBC, Kevin has served as Adjunct Faculty with the UBC iSchool where he taught library collection management (2017-19) and as Elected Representative of Professional Librarians on UBC Senate (2015-19). Kevin is active in the cultural realm as both writer and visual artist. He is the author of the exhibition’s accompanying article, I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS and Classical Music, published in Imaginations, a multilingual, open-access journal of international visual cultural studies. His photomurals explore the interconnectedness of modernity, personal identity, and portraiture and are held by several museums in the Pacific Northwest. A collection of his work is available for online viewing through the solo exhibition Vancouver Modern: on the limits of portraiture.
Organizers
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Janneka Guise
Director, Music Library
Janneka Guise joined the University of Toronto Music Library as Head Librarian in 2017. She has worked in academic libraries in Canada and the United States since 1999. Prior to her move to Toronto, she was Head of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library at the University of Manitoba for ten years. She holds Masters degrees in Music Theory (Western) and Library and Information Studies (Alberta), and a Graduate Professional Certificate in Library Sector Leadership (Victoria). She has published extensively and is currently co-lead editor of the open access, peer reviewed journal CAML Review. In 2015 she published Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries (Chandos) and this year she co-authored a peer-reviewed paper with U of T colleagues on music score collection assessment for the forthcoming issue of Fontes Artis Musicae. In July 2023, she will begin a one-year research leave to research and write the history of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML).
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