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Bernard Piché
(Paul) Bernard Piché. Organist, composer, teacher, b Montreal 10 Apr 1908, d Trois Rivières 4 Dec 1989; lauréat organ (AMQ) 1929. His early musical studies were with Hervé Cloutier. He became organist in 1926 at St-Nicolas Church in Ahuntsic and then moved to Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense.
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Bernard R. Laberge
Bernard R. Laberge (La Berge, LaBerge). Impresario, organist, pianist, critic, b Quebec City 11 Oct 1891, naturalized US 1940, d New York 28 Dec 1951. He studied at the Séminaire de Rimouski, NB, and at Laval University.
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Bernard Turgeon
Bernard (Joseph Roméo Vianney) Turgeon. Baritone, teacher, administrator, b Edmonton 20 Oct 1931. He began his musical training in Edmonton with his mother and continued with Jean Létourneau.
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Bernardus G. Bogisch
Bernardus G. Bogisch, 'Ben'. Bandmaster, composer, pianist, teacher, born The Hague 2 Nov 1932, died Napanee, Ont 9 Sep 2012; ARCM 1965, LTCL 1965, Associate LCM 1965.
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Bernelda Wheeler
Bernelda Winona Sakinasikwe Wheeler (née Pratt), broadcaster, journalist, author, poet, actor, social activist (born 8 April 1937 in Fort Qu’Appelle, SK; died 10 September 2005 in Saskatoon, SK). Bernelda Wheeler was an award-winning author and pioneering Indigenous broadcaster, sometimes referred to as the ‘First Lady of Native Broadcasting’. Wheeler was equally well-known as an Indigenous author of children’s literature. She was one of the hosts of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s landmark Indigenous program, Our Native Land, from 1972 to 1982. Wheeler was one of the first female Indigenous journalists in Canada.
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Bernice Morgan
Bernice Morgan, writer (b at St John's, Nfld 8 February 1935). Bernice Morgan grew up in St John's, Newfoundland, where she attended and graduated from the Newfoundland Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school.
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Bernie LaBarge
Bernie LaBarge (b Bernard Leo Labarge). Guitarist, songwriter, singer, b Ottawa 11 March 1953. LaBarge attended school in Burlington, Ont; he began to teach himself guitar at age 11, and by 1967 was playing professionally.
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Bernie Piltch
Bernie (Bernard David) Piltch. Saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, b Montreal 12 Aug 1927, d Toronto 7 Apr 1983. He took clarinet lessons from Herbert Pye at the TCM (RCMT) in the 1940s and was a composition pupil of Gordon Delamont in the 1950s.
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Bernie Senensky
Bernie (Bernard Melvyn) Senensky. Pianist, composer, b Winnipeg 31 Dec 1944. He began piano studies at 9 with Clara Pearlman and was guided in jazz at 17 by Bob Erlendson.
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Bert Niosi
Bert (Bartolo) Niosi, bandleader (b at London, Ont 10 Feb 1909; d at Mississauga, Ont 3 Aug 1987).
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Bert Niosi
Bert (Bartolo) Niosi. Bandleader, clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, b London, Ont, 10 Feb 1909, d Mississauga, Ont, 3 Aug 1987.
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Berta Lynn Seymour
Berta Lynn Seymour, née Springbett, dancer, choreographer (b at Wainwright, Alta 8 Mar 1939). One of the greatest dramatic ballerinas of the century, Seymour studied at the Rosemary Deveson School and with Nicolai Svetlanoff in Vancouver before entering the Sadler's Wells School in England (1954).
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Bertha Carey
Bertha (Roxena) (m Morrow) Carey. Contralto, teacher, b Millgrove 25 Jun 1887, d Hamilton 12 Jul 1970; honorary FRHCM 1966. She studied voice at the Hamilton Conservatory and, during the summers of 1908 and 1910, in Florence with Isidore Braggiotti.
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Bertha Crawford
Bertha (May) Crawford. Soprano, b Toronto 1886, d there 26 May 1937. After study with Edward Schuch in Toronto, Mme Nevosky in London, and Mme Corsi in Milan, Crawford made her debut in 1913 in Venice as Gilda in Rigoletto.
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Bertha Drechsler Adamson
Bertha Drechsler Adamson (b Hamilton). Violinist, teacher, conductor, b Edinburgh 25 Mar 1848, d Toronto 12 May 1924. A relative of the noted cellists Louis and Karl Drechsler she first studied music with her father, Adam Hamilton, a pianist and organist who taught at the University of Edinburgh.
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