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Music of Eric Wild

Canadian television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6942069 ↗
Source-derived summary

Music of Eric Wild is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television in 1961.

Premise

This Winnipeg-produced series featured Eric Wild conducting a 17-person orchestra. Among the guest artists were singers Len Cariou, Ed Evanko, Florence Faiers, Evelyn Snider and Maxine Ware. Pianist Mitch Parks and violinist Marta Hidy were also guests.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Sundays at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 28 May to 25 June 1961.

See also

Music Stand

References

External links

Allan, Blaine (1996). "Music of Eric Wild". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010.

Editorial summary

“Music of Eric Wild” enters the record as canadian television program. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Music, Eric and Wild can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1996, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Music, Eric and Wild.
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“Music of Eric Wild” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Music, Eric and Wild provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6942069. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1996 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Music of Eric Wild” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.