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Hart House String Quartet in their 1935 configuration (James Levey, Milton Blackstone, Boris Hambourg and Harry Adaskin). The photograph is signed for their Manager Horace Parmalee.
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and taught there until his retirement in 1973. In 1977, he wrote the first part of his autobiography,
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with Henri Czaplinski. In 1923, he formed the Hart House String Quartet and played second violin.
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From 1946 to 1958, he was the head of the new Department of Music at the
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and in 1982, he wrote the second part to his autobiography,
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It was announced 18 December 1974 that he was awarded the
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Riga
Toronto
Vancouver
radio broadcaster
OC
Latvian
Riga
Governorate of Livonia
Russian Empire
Latvia
Toronto
Toronto Conservatory of Music
Frank Welsman
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Hamburger Konservatorium
CBC Radio
University of British Columbia
Murray Adaskin
Frances Adaskin
Order of Canada
Order of Canada
Vancouver


The Right Honourable Jules Léger
"Harry Adaskin, O.C., LL.D."
Governor General of Canada

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