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Gordana Lazarevich
Gordana Lazarevich. Musicologist, pianist, administrator, b Belgrade 28 Feb 1939, naturalized Canadian 1957; Artist and Licentiate Diploma (Toronto) 1960, B SC (Juilliard) 1962, post-graduate diploma (Juilliard) 1962, M SC (Juilliard) 1964, PH D (Columbia) 1970.
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Gordie Brandt
Gordie (Gordon Edward) Brandt. Guitarist, b Regina 20 Jun 1924, d Saskatoon 31 Jul 1983. Raised in Saskatoon, Brandt began playing guitar at 12.
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Gordon Allan Sinclair
Gordon Allan Sinclair, journalist, author, radio commentator, television panelist (b at Toronto 3 June 1900; d there 17 May 1984). He began a long and often controversial career when he joined the Toronto Star in 1922 after a modest education and various dead-end jobs.
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Gordon A. Smith
Gordon Appelbe Smith, CM, OBC, painter, printmaker, teacher, philanthropist (born 18 June 1919 in East Brighton, England; died 18 January 2020 in West Vancouver, BC). Gordon Smith was a key figure in Vancouver’s art scene during the latter half of the 20th century. He was best known for his monumental, modernist abstractions of the West Coast landscape, and for his long and influential career as a teacher and philanthropist. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada for making “a major contribution to the development of the fine arts in Canada.” He also received the Order of British Columbia, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
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Gordon Day
Gordon (Hugh) Day. Flutist, b Toronto 16 Oct 1914, d near Millbrook, Ont, 19 Jun 1962. After playing clarinet and saxophone with a country music band, Billy Hole and the Livewires, in Toronto, he led his own dance band, the Rhythm Knights, and in 1935 joined Horace Lapp's orchestra.
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Gordon Delamont
Gordon Arthur Delamont, teacher, author, composer, trumpeter (born 27 October 1918 in Moose Jaw, SK; died 16 January 1981 in Toronto, ON). Gordon Delamont was a leading music educator and theorist, and a guiding figure in Canada in the third-stream movement — a synthesis of classical music and jazz.
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Gordon Delamont
Gordon (Arthur) Delamont. Teacher, author, composer, trumpeter, b Moose Jaw, Sask, 27 Oct 1918, d Toronto 16 Jan 1981. Raised in Vancouver, he studied trumpet with his father, Arthur Delamont, and was soloist with the boys' band.
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Gordon Fleming
Gordon (Charles James) Fleming. Organist, pianist, composer, arranger, b Goderich, Ont, 27 May 1903, d Windsor, Ont, 30 Apr 1959. Much of his early life was spent in Galt (renamed Cambridge), Ont.
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Gordon Greene
Gordon (Kay) Greene. Musicologist, teacher, b Cardston, Alta, 27 Dec 1927; Associate in music (WBM) 1953, BA (Alberta) 1954, B ED (Alberta) 1954, MA philosophy (Alberta) 1962, PH D musicology (Indiana) 1971.
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Gordon Hallett
Gordon (Arnold) Hallett. Pianist, teacher, b Nanton, near Calgary, 28 Nov 1905, d Toronto, 10 Feb 1993; LTCM 1925. He took lessons as a child in Nanton with Leola Alexander, a former Paul Wells pupil, and at age 16 won the Alberta Piano Competition.
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Gordon Hancock
Gordon Hancock. Administrator, pianist, organist-choirmaster, teacher, b Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, 20 Mar 1912, d Regina 22 Jan 1978; ATCM 1930, LTCL 1947, FTCL 1947. His family moved to Canada in 1913.
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Gordon Hilker
John Gordon Hilker, impresario, producer, administrator (born 19 September 1913 in Vancouver, BC; died 4 April 1991)
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Gordon Jeffery
Gordon (Dumaresq) Jeffery. Lawyer, organist, conductor, b London, Ont, 15 Jul 1919, d there 4 Aug 1986; ATCM organ 1942, FRCO 1957, FTCL 1957, honorary FRCCO 1973. While studying law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Jeffery took lessons from Charles Peaker and Healey Willan.
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Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman, writer (born at Montréal, 23 Oct 1963). Raised in Montréal until 1970 when his family moved to Thornhill, Ont, Gordon Korman moved to the United States to attend New York University and received a BA in Dramatic and Visual Writing with a minor in Motion Picture and Television in 1985.
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Gordon Kushner
Gordon Kushner (b George Gershon Kushnir). Pianist, conductor, teacher, b Winnipeg 25 May 1916; d Toronto 8 Sep 2007; LRSM 1938, hon fellowship (RCM) 1991.
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