Melbourne

Also appears as "Melbourne Records" Now defunct Canadian label. Founded in 1962 by Rodeo Records Ltd., it had originally issued Australian folk, country and pop music as an American subsidiary of Australian [l52893]. In 1965 it began to evolve into a modern classical music label, and was acquired by BMI Canada Ltd. in 1973, who sold it to Waterloo Music Co. Ltd in 1977. In its final years the New Music Series featured Canadian composers, including Harry Somers' The Fool, R. Murray Schafer's Loving and Threnody, and electroacoustic music by Jean Piché, Barry Truax, as performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Orford String Quartet, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the York Winds, Antonin Kubálek, piano duo Leslie Kinton and James Anagnoson, Robert Bauer, Davis Joachim, William Kuinka, Christopher Weait, and David Zafer. Its final production, Piché's Heliograms, was released in 1982. Its catalogue was sold to the Canadian Music Centre in 1986.