FIGURES
1.1 Eldon Rathburn, age two, with sister ca. 1918. Eldon Rathburn’s photo collection. Private collection
1.2 Jack Weldon Humphrey, Old Musician – Professor Wm. Bowden, 1958. Oil on board (104 × 80 cm/40.9 × 31.5 in.). Location of painting unknown, photo from Mutual Art
1.3 Imperial Theatre, Saint John, NB, ca. 1915. Photogelatine Eng. Co., Ltd., postcard, 8.8 × 13.7 cm, New Brunswick Museum / Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick, ac. no. X13425
1.4 Group photo in CFBO radio studio, ca. 1930. Don Messer Fonds, Nova Scotia Archives, accession no. 1998-132/047
1.5 Don Messer and the New Brunswick Lumberjacks, 1935. Photographer: L.M. Harrison. Don Messer Fonds, Nova Scotia Archives, accession no. 1998-132, vol. 071 no. 162-63
1.6 Canadian Performing Rights Society composition prize winners. Ottawa, 2 May 1938. Photo © Yousuf Karsh, used with permission of the Karsh Estate. Reproduced from print in private collection
1.7 “Mr. Churchill, Our Hats Are Off to You.” Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson, 1941
1.8 Rathburn, Alfred Wallenstein, and Gloria Greene in L.A. Daily News, 22 March 1945
2.1 Saint John newspaper ad for To the Ladies (NFB, 1946). Saint John Evening Times-Globe, 1 February 1946
2.2 The “Mighty Five,” ca. 1952. National Film Board of Canada
2.3 The National Film Board’s first head office, ca. 1947. National Film Board of Canada
2.4 Eldon Rathburn in When All the People Play, 1948. National Film Board of Canada
2.5 Eldon Rathburn at work in his Ottawa office, 1950. Photo by G. Blouin. National Film Board of Canada
3.1 Colin Low, holding the Certificate of Merit for The Romance of Transportation in Canada (NFB, 1952). Copyright National Film Board of Canada. NFB Archives, image no. 825420
3.2a/b Sketches from McLaren’s Short and Suite (NFB, 1959)
3.2c Photo of Rathburn, London, 1957. Private collection
3.3 Opening title motif, Fish Spoilage Control, NFB, 1956
3.4 “Climbing Chilkoot Pass” in City of Gold (NFB, 1957). Edwin Tappan Adney, photographer. Courtesy of the McCord Museum, Montreal, MP-1979.111.18
3.5 Measures 1–16 from Rathburn’s main theme for It’s a Crime (NFB, 1958)
3.6 Rathburn’s ternary theme for Police (NFB, 1958)
3.7 Rathburn’s draft manuscript for Universe (NFB, 1960), mm. 1–20. LAC ERF, R12642, vol. 20, file 9, 1959
3.8 Piano reduction of Gustav Holst’s “Mars, the Bringer of War,” The Planets, 1916, mm. 6–16
3.9 “Cue 9” (comets) of Rathburn’s score for Universe (NFB, 1960)
3.10 Potterton sketch from the production file for The Railrodder (NFB, 1965). Production file, National Film Board Archives
3.11 Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (NFB, 1965). Courtesy of the NFB Archives, and with permission of Robert Borgen and Alec Lev, on behalf of the International Buster Keaton Society, Inc.
3.12 Rathburn’s principal theme from The Railrodder (NFB, 1965)
4.1 Audience view of Labyrinth pavilion, Chamber One, under construction. Photographer unknown, National Film Board of Canada
4.2 Eldon Rathburn sightseeing near Cairo, Egypt. Private collection
4.3 Eldon and Marguerite Rathburn attending a tribute concert, 2006. Photo by Jana Chytilova. Republished with the express permission of the Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
4.4 Rathburn’s title theme, The Defender (1989)
4.5 IMAX tent at Circus World. Photo source: https://photos.orlandoweekly.com/30-vintage-photos-of-shuttered-orlando-theme-park-circus-world/?slide=2&2-up-close-clown-via-floridamemory-com-2
4.6 Rathburn cameo in Transitions (1986). Courtesy of the NFB
4.7 “The Indian’s Lament” (traditional folk song) and a variation on “The Indian’s Lament,” Rathburn’s film score for Momentum (IMAX, 1992)
5.1 Rathburn in front of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (March 1945). Private collection
5.2 Schoenberg with children Nuria, Lawrence, and Ronald, 1945. Private collection
5.3 Eldon Rathburn, Louis B. Mayer, Fred Bridgeo, and Walter Pidgeon in the MGM studio commissary, Hollywood, March 1945. New Brunswick Provincial Archive, Eldon Rathburn Fond, MC3421, box 58396
5.4a Rathburn’s Schoenberg versus Gershwin (1991), mm. 1–19
5.4b George Gershwin painting Arnold Schoenberg, ca. 1934. Henry Botkin papers, 1917–1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Digital ID: 8360)
5.5 Harmony and Charles Ives, ca. 1946. Photograph by Halley Erskine. MSS 14, photo 181, The Charles Ives Papers, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University
6.1 Kaj Pindal. Caricatures of Eldon Rathburn, ca. 1980. Reproduced with permission of Kaj Pindal
6.2 CPR Locomotive No. 634, Saint John, New Brunswick. Photo by Byron Thomas, from collection of George Colby Brown, CPR foreman, Saint John
7.1 Hamming banjo players and mock conductor, Saint John River, ca. 1880s. Reproduced from a glass negative. Courtesy of the New Brunswick Provincial Archives, George T. Taylor Collection, P5/479
7.2 The “Bohee Minstrels” advertisement, ca. 1890. Image XJ110339 © Look and Learn, Peter Jackson Collection, used by permission
7.3 Sketch and caption from George DuMaurier’s English Society. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1880
7.4 George Hector, the “Whistling Banjoman.” Source: Whistling Banjoman: George Hector. Gagetown: Otnabog Editions, 1999
7.5 Mm. 9–20 (banjo solo) from Rathburn’s Concertino for Banjo and String Quartet (1999)
7.6 Jeffrey Wright-Sedam. Caricature, International Jew’s Harp Congress. Cartoon reprinted here with permission of the artist
7.7 Mm. 302–6 from the Jew’s harp part of Rathburn’s The Metamorphic Ten (1971)
7.8 Eldon Rathburn’s personal collection of unusual instruments. Photo by the author, 2015. Private collection
8.1 Black and White (1960), for piano solo (Waterloo Music, 1970), mm. 19–24
8.2 Opening theme (mm. 1–16) from “Valse Languendo” (second movement, Suite for Piano, 2004)
8.3 Beethoven’s “Canadian Canon” and mm. 1–12 from Rathburn’s string quartet, Reverie: After a Beethoven Sketch (1998)
8.4 Mm. 11–15 from Rathburn’s Test Tube (NFB stock music, 1958)
8.5 Theme from Images of Childhood (1950, rev. 1972), unison strings and flute, mm. 144–9
8.6 Mm. 1–9 from “Round One” of Bout: In Three Rounds (1971)
9.1 Rathburn receiving a “Certificate of Commendation,” Saint John City Hall, 17 October 1967, Saint John Herald Tribune. LAC ERF R12642/1.6
9.2 Nuria, Lawrence, and Ronald Schoenberg with Eldon Rathburn, 28 July 2007. Photo by Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg
9.3 Eldon Rathburn, age ninety-two, in his Saint Laurent Boulevard condominium, 2008, © Photo by Lois Siegel. Used with permission
