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Léon Lyonnais II
Lyonnais (Bossu or Bossue, dit Lyonnais), Léon II. Amateur musician, singer, b Quebec City 12 Sep 1851, d ?. A printer by trade, he participated in musical activities in Quebec City on at least two occasions, according to 19th-century accounts.
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Léon Ringuet
Léon Ringuet (b Ringuette). Bandmaster, composer, organist, pianist, teacher, b Louiseville, near Trois-Rivières, Que, 3 Jan 1858, d St-Hyacinthe, Que, 20 Sep 1932. His early musical training took place at the Collège de St-Césaire, near Montreal, and at St-Joseph U in Memramcook, NB.
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Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke, short-story writer, novelist, playwright (b at Roanoke Rapids, NC 11 Sept 1934). He was educated at the U of NC in Chapel Hill (1955-58, 1961-62) and was drafted into the US Army infantry which he served in Alaska
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León Zuckert
Zuckert, León. Composer, violinist, violist, conductor, b Poltava, Ukraine, 4 May 1904, d Toronto 29 May 1992. He studied violin 1916-18 with Boris Brodsky at the Imperial School of Music in Poltava.
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Léonard Beaulne
Léonard Beaulne, actor and company director, drama and diction teacher (b at Ste-Scholastique 8 Aug, 1887; d at Ottawa 10 Oct 1947). Léonard Beaulne grew up in Sainte-Scholastique (Québec) where his father was a blacksmith.
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Léonard Bilodeau
Léonard (Albert Joseph) Bilodeau. Tenor, b Quebec City 11 July 1935, d Québec City, 6 May 2008. He studied singing ca 1955 with Louis Gravel and 1957-61 on scholarship with George Lambert and Irene Jessner at the RCMT.
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Leonard Byron Peterson
Leonard Byron Peterson, playwright (born at Regina, Sask 15 Mar 1917, died at Toronto 28 Feb 2008). Len Peterson grew up in Regina, spending his high school years at Scott Collegiate and then attending Regina's Luther College until 1936, in its arts program.
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Leonard Camplin
Leonard Camplin. Conductor, violinist, oboist, b London 16 Aug 1928; FTCL. He studied at the GSM and the Essen School of Music, Germany, and received private tuition in London and Berlin. After graduating from the RMSM (Kneller Hall) in 1955 he became the British Army's youngest bandmaster.
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Leonard Cohen Goes Broke
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 22, 2005. Partner content is not updated.
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Leonard Cohen (Profile)
Leonard Cohen is backstage at Hamilton Place, having just performed an epic concert for an ecstatic audience. He's still wearing the hat, and with the double-breasted suit that threatens to engulf his slight frame, the rakish fedora lends him the air of a gangster from a lost age.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 23, 2008
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Leonard Eglauch
Leonard Eglauch, (also Eglau or Ecclaugh). Piano teacher, organist, b Germany, d Montreal? ca 1886. He is mentioned first in newspapers in 1842 as a piano recitalist and accompanist in Kingston, Upper Canada (Ontario) and Quebec City and as a teacher in Montreal.
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Leonard Enns
Leonard (Jacob) Enns. Choir conductor, composer, teacher, b Winnipeg 2 Feb 1948; B CH MUS (Canadian Mennonite Bible College) 1969, B MUS (Wilfrid Laurier) 1974, M MUS (Northwestern) 1977, PH D (Northwestern) 1982.
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Leonard Heaton
Leonard Dunstan Heaton, pianist, teacher (born 1889 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England; died 15 August 1963 in Winnipeg, MB).
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Leonard Isaacs
Leonard Isaacs. Administrator, teacher, pianist, conductor, arranger, b Manchester 3 Jan 1909, naturalized Canadian 1973, d Winnipeg 6 Dec 1997; ARCM 1928, B MUS (London) 1934, FRCM 1983. His father was Edward Isaacs, the English pianist-composer and pupil of Busoni.
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Leonard Leacock
Leonard (Henry) Leacock. Pianist, teacher, composer, b London, 28 May 1904, d Calgary 3 Dec 1992; ATCM 1924, LRSM 1935. His family moved to Canada in 1908 and settled in Banff, Alta. He spent the years of World War I in Boston and took his first piano lessons there with a Mrs R. Holbrook.
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