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Preface and Acknowledgements It was in October 2011 that we first had the idea to honour Helmut Kallmann ’s contributions to Canadian music research by assembling a collection of his writings. After his death from kidney failure at the age of eightynine on 12 February 2012, the book assumed the added significance of serving as a memorial to his life’s work. We have chosen seventeen of his writings for this collection—five of them are published here for the first time and twelve were previously published, though many of these appeared in sources that are not easily accessible at present. Almost all deal with some aspect of Canadian music; included are reviews, autobiographical reflections, research articles, a reception history, and reminiscences of several major Canadian music publications and projects with which Kallmann was involved. Helmut Kallmann’s daughter, Liora Salter, kindly gave us free and full access to his personal archive—some fifty boxes of books and periodicals, and four filing cabinets full of his writings. We thank her for her support of this venture, including permission to publish these writings and reproduce the illustrations. Shelley Zhang, a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Music program at the University of Toronto, was an efficient, diligent, and astute research assistant who typed and formatted all of the articles. Dawn Keer graciously loaned copies of photos from her University of Alberta thesis, an invaluable study of Kallmann’s career. At Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Richard Green and Florence Hayes provided background information on the work of the department which Kallmann initiated. Kathleen McMorrow contributed her knowledge and experience in making the index. At Wilfrid Laurier University Press, we thank the director, Brian Henderson , for his swift acceptance of our proposal for this book, and the acquisitions editor, Ryan Chynces, for seeing it through to completion. x Preface and Acknowledgements James Leahy was the expert copy editor of the book, and we are grateful to him for the care and attention that he devoted to this task. We also wish to thank the four anonymous external reviewers, whose comments were thoughtful, detailed, and well informed; the book has benefited greatly from the insights of these careful readers. We feel especially fortunate to have received financial assistance from a number of sources towards the preparation and publication of this book. The (US) Music Library Association chose it as the 2013 recipient of the Carol June Bradley Award; the Sonja and Michael Koerner Foundation and the Institute for Canadian Music, University of Toronto, provided further generous funding. We view these gestures of support as symbolic of the enduring value of Kallmann’s life and work. —J.B., R.E. ...

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