Community Activities

2001 to present

Fund-raiser, Trustee, Maureen Forrester Trust.  Instrumental in establishment and administration of trust for long term care of Canadian National Treasure, Maureen Forrester.

1995 to present

Fund-raiser, Sunnybrook Hospital breast cancer centre

1990 to present

Fund-raiser, The Shaw Festival

1982 to present

Fund-raiser, The Variety Club of Toronto

1974 - 1976

Collected and sent over 100 musical instruments to N.W.T. to Sister Cecile Gagnon for the use of mentally challenged children.  Selected and sent recordings of all instruments, copyright-cleared sheet music, and copier to support instrumental education.

1955 to present

Co-founder Rare Book Room, University of Toronto Music Library, Stephen Leslie Sniderman Memorial Fund

1945 to present

Artist’s Advocate to advance public awareness of and venues for various musicians, artists, and writers from concert halls to galleries to publishers to radio to theatre.

Community Investment

Crest Theatre
Factory Theatre
Soulpepper Theatre
Stratford Festival of Canada
Tarragon
Theatre Passe Muraille
Roy Thompson Hall
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Sunnybrook and Women’s Foundation – Fellowship Society, Founding Member

Over a ten-year period, donated 14-record sets of the Beethoven Sonatas to The Canadian Music Competitions  for any student of the piano.

Donated thousands of classical records to the Faculty of Music, York University.