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Guy, Barry

  • Person
  • 1947-

Barry Guy (b. 1947) is a British composer and double bass player. From 1997 to 2006, he lived in Ireland, before moving to Switzerland with his wife, Maya Homburger, a Baroque violinist.

Guy worked for Caroe and Partners Architects in London for three years while studying the double bass and taking composition classes at Goldsmith’s College in London, England. He gave up a potential career in architecture in the late 1960s to study double bass full-time with James Edward Merritt at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Since graduating, he has performed internationally as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, performing a range of improvised, baroque, and contemporary music. Guy has collaborated with a number of other musicians and ensembles, including the City of London Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Music, London Classical Players, Maya Homburger, Paul Lytton, and Evan Parker, to name a few, and is the founder and artistic director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra (formed in the early-1970s) and the Barry Guy New Orchestra (formed in 2000).

Many of his compositions arise from commissions from ensembles and orchestras with whom he also has a performing relationship. His compositions often feature improvisational elements and/or extended techniques, and he has experimented with graphic notation in a number of his works, including "Nasca Lines," a graphic score commissioned by the Upstream Ensemble in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Although Guy began to discuss a commission with Jeff Reilly (artistic director of the Upstream Music Association, or UMA) circa 1996, his first appearance in Halifax was not until 1999, when he performed one of his works, "Octavia," with the Upstream Ensemble at the Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music. Since then, Guy has collaborated regularly with the ensemble, through performances (sometimes with Maya Homburger), workshops, and compositions. Most recently, the Upstream Ensemble performed his "Witch Gong Game" at the 2012 Open Waters Festival. The "Witch Gong Game," like "Nasca Lines," is a graphic score partially inspired by the work of Scottish artist Alan Davie.

Guy and Homburger also have a CD label, MAYA Recordings, for the production of new, improvised, and early music. He has more than 200 recordings as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, 26 of which are under the MAYA label.

Upstream Music Association

  • Corporate body
  • 1990 -
The UpStream Music Association (UMA) is a new music collective of performers and composers from the Halifax, Nova Scotia area. The association was inspired by a series of informal improvisation sessions in the spring of 1989 and became a non-profit charitable organization after its incorporation on April 4, 1990, shortly before the first performance of the Upstream Ensemble. The founding members of UMA were Steve Tittle, Bob Bauer, Tom Roach, Jeff Reilly, Steven Naylor, Sandy Moore, Paul Cram, and Don Palmer. The UMA is still an active arts organization in Halifax.

MacLennan, Electa A.E.

  • Person
  • 1907-1987

Electa MacLennan was the first director of Dalhousie School of Nursing, serving from 1949-1972. She was born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia, on March 31, 1907. Despite being kept home from school in the tenth grade to learn the art of homemaking, she skipped a grade on her return. She earned a BA from Dalhousie, where she was active in the choral, biology and dramatics clubs. After training at the Royal Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in Montreal, she earned a diploma in Teaching in Schools of Nursing from the School for Graduate Nurses at McGill University, followed by an MA in Public Health Supervision at Columbia University.

MacLennan became a staff nurse with the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) in Montreal, taught in the School of Nursing at the Vancouver General Hospital, and then returned to the VON in Montreal as a supervisor and later as National Office Supervisor for the Maritimes. She was the assistant secretary of the Canadian Nurses’ Association in 1942, and assistant director of the Faculty of the McGill School for Graduate Nurses in 1944. Hired at Dalhousie in 1949, she was responsible for launching the university's first nursing program. During her tenure, she created annual Nursing Institutes sponsored by Dalhousie and organized in-service education programs in Nova Scotia hospitals. She was appointed an associate professor in 1950 and full professor at Dalhousie in 1970.

A founding member of the Canadian Nurses Foundation, MacLennan was instrumental in ensuring that more nurses could finance their education and pursue research. She fought to increase the numbers of nursing teachers and qualified nurses in hospitals across Canada. MacLennan was president of the Canadian Conference of University Schools of Nursing from 1954 -1956; a board member of the International Congress of Nurses from 1962-1969; a Fellow of the American Public Health Association; and a member of the Royal Society of Health. In 1976 she was recognized with the Canadian Public Health Association’s Honorary Life Membership. MacLennan was also named as an Elder of the Church in Brookfield.

Electa MacLennan retired from Dalhousie in 1972 and died in 1987. The Electa MacLennan Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to students in Dalhousie graduate nusring programs.

Forrest, John

  • Person
  • 1842-1920
John Forrest was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1842. He was educated at the Free Church College in Halifax, the Presbyterian Seminary in Truro, and at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was the minister of St John's Presbyterian Church in Halifax and represented the Presbyterians on Dalhousie University's Board of Governors beginning in 1879. In 1881 he was appointed George Munro Professor of History and Political Economy and served as Dalhousie's third president from 1885-1911. He died in Halifax in 1920 at age 77, known by many of his former students as "Lord John." In 1919 the "new" Dalhousie College building was renamed the Forrest Building in his honour.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Graduate Studies

  • Corporate body (Dalhousie University)
  • 1949-
Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies was established in 1949 in response to pressures from science faculty members in particular; physics professor J.H.L. Johnstone was appointed as the first dean. Between 1930–1950 the university had granted over three hundred masters degrees, and in 1949 alone the new faculty registered eighty students in graduate programs. MA degrees were offered in classics, economics, English language and literature, history, mathematics, modern languages, public administration, philosophy and political science, while MSc programs included biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics and physiology. After an infusion of federal funding, graduate programs were expanded in 1956 to include a PhD program in biological sciences and in 1960 a PhD program in chemistry. In 1967 the Master of Business Administration program was created; in 1972 the psychology department began offering a PhD program; and the Master of Nursing program was established in 1975. Graduate students are represented by a separate student union, known as the Dalhousie Association for Graduate Students, and graduate residences are available on both Halifax and Truro campuses.

Macneill, Murray

  • Person
  • 1877-1951
Murray Macneill was born in Maitland, New Brunswick and brought up in St. John’s, Newfoundland and St. John, New Brunswick. He attended Pictou Academy before coming to Dalhousie University in 1892 at the age of fifteen. Macneill graduated in 1896 (the same year as James Robinson Johnston, Dalhousie's first Black graduate) and won the Sir William Young medal in mathematics. Macneill went on to do graduate work at Cornell, Harvard, and Paris. In 1907, Macneill returned to Dalhousie after being hired as a mathematics professor. In 1908, he was appointed Arts and Science registrar and in 1920 he was appointed university registrar. After a long feud with President Stanley over admission standards, Macneill was dismissed as registrar in 1936 but he continued as a professor until 1942. Macneill was an avid curler and was a member of the Halifax Curling Club and president of the Canadian Curling Association. He was the first Brier champion in 1927 and also competed in 1930, 1932, and 1936. He died in 1951 of pancreatic cancer.

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

  • Person
  • 1916-1999
Yehudi Menuhin was an American-born violinist and composer who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. Menuhin is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the twentieth century.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Science. Department of Biology

  • Corporate body (Dalhousie University)
  • 1931-
The Department of Biology was formally established in 1931 when Hugh Bell, Professor of Botany (pictured above), was appointed as its inaugural chair. However, correspondence within the Presidents Office fonds written on Department of Biology letterhead exists from 1914. The first lecturer in biology was hired in the Faculty of Medicine in 1905, and by 1907 the position was also listed in the University Calendar under the Faculty of Arts and Science. By 1911 biology was significant enough to warrant the hiring of an assistant professor, Clarence Moore, and the early 1920s James Dawson was appointed full professor. In 1932, zoologist Dixie Pelleut was hired in the Biology Department and became one of the first two women to hold professorial appointments at Dalhousie.

Cram, Paul

  • Person
  • 1952-2018
Paul Cram was a musician and composer known for his new music compositions and his collaborative approach to music performance. He was born 11 August 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia, and completed his Bachelor of Music at the University of British Columbia in 1978. He formed the Paul Cram Trio in 1982, followed by several other ensembles including the New Orchestra Workshop, System Saxophone Quartet, the Kings of Sming, the Paul Cram Quintet, and the Paul Cram Orchestra. In 1987 he co-founded Hemispheres, a new jazz/new music ensemble in Toronto, Ontario. He moved to Halifax in 1990, where he became a founding member and later artistic director of Upstream Music Ensemble (1990-2015). He died 20 March 2018.

Ellis, Lisle

  • Person
  • 1951-
Lisle Ellis is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer, known for his improvisational style and use of electronics. Born in Campbell River, British Columbia, he played electric bass as a teenager before entering the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Creative Music Studio in New York City (1975-1979). He lived in Toronto, Ontario from 1982 to 1983, and Montreal, Quebec from 1983 to 1992. He formed the performance and composition collective Vancouver's New Orchestra Workshop. In 1992, he moved to the Uited States where he spent time in San Francisco, San Diego, and New York City. He has performed and recorded with a number of artists.

Reilly, Jeff

  • Person
Jeff Reilly is a bass clarinetist, composer, conductor, and radio music producer for CBC. He has performed with numerous choirs, orchestras, and chamber groups around the world, and was a co-artistic director of the Upstream Music Association from 1990 to 2000. He also performs regularly with Peter Togni (organ) and Christoph Both (cello) in their trio, Sanctuary; with the jazz drummer Jerry Granelli; and with the Halifax-based ensemble, subText.

Rothman, Bernard

  • Person
Little is known about Bernard Rothman. He gave and signed a copy of his composition, "Sun Shower," to the Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon.

Dalton, Sydney C.

  • Person
Sydney Dalton was an American composer, teacher, and music critic. He introduced the Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon to Rafael Joseffy, who became Ballon's teacher in New York.

Medtner, Nikolay

  • Person
  • 1880-1951
Nikolay Medtner was born on January 5, 1880 in Moscow. He studied piano with his mother until the age of 10 when he entered the Moscow Conservatory. After graduating from the conservatory in 1900, he quickly turned to composition and many of his pieces were performed by his friend and fellow pianist/ composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff. He moved to London, England in 1936, where he remained until his death in 1951.

Troupenas

  • Corporate body
  • 1825-1850
Troupenas was a publishing house founded in Paris by Eugène-Théodore Troupenas (1799-1850) in 1825, when he acquired the publishers Veuve Nicolo & Isouard. Six months after his death in April 1850, his catalogue was taken over by Brandus.

Hovhaness, Alan

  • Person
  • 1911-2000
Alan Hovhaness was an American twentieth-century composer. He was highly regarded and performed during his lifetime, with over 500 compositions to his name.

Botrel, Théodore

  • Person
  • 1868-1925
Botrel was a French singer-songwriter from Brittany, most widely known for his song "La Paimpolaise."

Kunstwart-Verlag

  • Corporate body
  • 1884-
German publisher founded in Munich by Georg D.W. Callwey.

Somerset Maugham, William

  • Person
  • 1874-1965
William Somerset Maugham was raised by his uncle after he was orphaned at the age of 10. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1897 from St. Thomas' medical school in London, England, but soon left medicine to pursue his writing. He wrote novels, plays, and short stories. He died in Nice on December 16, 1965.

Lehmann, Charlotte

  • Person
  • 1888-1976
Lotte Lehmann was an acclaimed German soprano known for her operatic roles, performances of lieder, and over 500 recordings.

Ferber, Edna

  • Person
  • 1885-1968
Edna Ferber was an American writer of novels and plays. In 1924, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "So Big." She is perhaps best known for her book "Show Boat" (1926), which was made into a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern. She died on April 16, 1968.

Duke-Elder, William Stewart, Sir

  • Person
  • 1898-1978
Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder was a Scottish ophthalmologist and author of several books on the subject.

Backhaus, Wilhelm

  • Person
  • 1884-1969
Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and teacher, particularly known for his performances of music by Ludwig van Beethoven and German Romantic composers. Born in Leipzig, he began piano lessons with his mother at age 4. From 1891 to 1899, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, before studying with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt. In 1905, he won the Anton Rubinstein Competition. Throughout his life, he toured Europe and the United States regularly and held various teaching positions, including at the Curtis Institute of Music. He moved to Lugano, Switzerland in 1930 and died shortly before a concert in Villach, Austria.

Boosey & Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1760-1930
Boosey & Company was founded in the 1760s by John Boosey as a music lending library in London, England. In 1892 they expanded in New York, and in 1930, they merged with the publishing house Hawkes & Son (founded in 1865) to form Boosey & Hawkes.

Remick Warren, Elinor

  • Person
  • 1900-1991
Elinor Remick Warren was a twentieth-century American neo-Romanticist composer. Born on February 23, 1900 to a Los Angeles businessman and amateur pianist, she studied music from an early age. She studied harmony with Gertrude Ross and piano with Kathryn Cocke, and published her first composition, "A Song of June," with G. Schirmer while still in high school. After graduation, she moved to New York where she studied with Frank LaForge and Dr. Clarence Dickinson, and quickly became known as a composer, piano accompanist, and piano soloist. She performed until the 1940s, when she retired to concentrate on composition. Her works range from piano solos to orchestral compositions and choral works. She spent most of her working life in Los Angeles.

Arthur P. Schmidt

  • Corporate body
  • 1876-1960
The Arthur P. Schmidt publishing house was established by the man of the same name, shortly after his arrival in Boston from Germany in 1876. It began in conjunction with a music store, which Schmidt sold in 1889. He was known for his publications of American composers, and was the first American publisher to publish an American Symphony, Symphony No. 2 by George Whitefield Chadwick (1888). The company was acquired by Summy-Birchard in 1960.

Bell, Hugh Philip

  • Person
  • 1889-1957
Hugh Philip Bell was a noted botanist and former head of Dalhousie University biology department. He was born on 22 February 1889 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Charles Bell and Isabella Jane Ray. He was educated in Halifax schools and attended Dalhousie University, where he studied botany and played an active part in college activities. After graduation he taught at Morris Street School in Halifax and at the Lunenburg Academy. During World War One Bell served as a captain with the RCRs in France, where he was wounded severely. On returning from the war he received his PhD degree from the University of Toronto before being appointed at Dalhousie, where he remained until his retirement in 1954. Bell was an associate of the Nova Scotia Research Foundation and published over fifty scientific papers on the development of Nova Scotia plants. At the time of his death on 25 October 1957, he was working as a botanist for the Research Council of Nova Scotia.

Betts, Donald

  • Person
  • 1929-2012
Donald Drysdale Betts was born in Montreal in 1929 to Wallace and Mary (Drysdale), and later moved to Halifax. He studied at the University of King's College, earning his Baccalaureate-first class honours and receiving the Dalhousie-King's University Medal in Physics in 1950, and his M.Sc. in 1952 from Dalhousie University. After this, he attended McGill University to complete his Ph.D.in theoretical mathematics (1955). Betts moved to Edmonton and served a year as a Post Doctoral Fellow before being appointed as a faculty member in the physics department at the University of Alberta, where he became a full professor over the following 24 years (1955-1980). During this time, he was appointed Director of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta (1972-78), as well as several executive roles within the Canadian Association of Physics (CAP), including president (1969-70). In 1980, Betts returned to Dalhousie as Dean of Arts and Science (1980-88), Dean of Science (1988-1990) and Provost of the College of Arts and Science (1988-89). He continued as a Professor of Physics until his retirement in 1994, when he was was awarded the honourary position of Professor Emeritus in physics. Betts also served as chair and later as a member of the Selection Committee for the Rutherford Medal in Physics for the Royal Society of Canada (1986-87, 1998-2002); as the editor of the Canadian Journal of Physics from March 1992 to March 1997; and on the executive of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science (NSIS) (1996-2002), including a term as President (1999-2001). Donald Betts died in Halifax on October 23, 2012.

Philipp, Isidor

  • Person
  • 1863-1958
Isidor Philipp was a French pianist, composer, and teacher.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Architecture and Planning

  • Corporate body (Dalhousie University)
  • 1997-

The Faculty of Architecture was established on 1 April 1997 with the merger of the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) and Dalhousie University. It was the outgrowth of the first school of architecture in Atlantic Canada, which opened at the Nova Scotia Technical College in 1961, sharing a building on Spring Garden Road with the Nova Scotia Museum of Science. During the 1960s the professional architecture program began, consisting of two years of engineering at one of seven Maritime universities, followed by four years at the School of Architecture, leading to a BArch degree. In 1969 the engineering prerequisite was changed to two years in any university subject.

In 1970 the School of Architecture took over the entire building and initiated the trimester system and co-op work term program. In 1973 the architecture portion of the professional program included a two-year pre-professional degree (later called Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies) and a two-year professional BArch degree. The BArch program was validated by the Commonwealth Association of Architects and a one-year, post-professional Master of Architecture program was offered. In 1976 the NSTC Faculty of Architecture was established, with the School of Architecture continuing as a constituent part of the Faculty. The main floor of the building was renovated, including the addition of a mezzanine for faculty offices. The Master of Urban and Rural Planning program was first offered in 1977. In 1978 the Department of Urban and Rural Planning was established within the Faculty of Architecture, becoming the School of Planning in 2001.

In the early 1980s, after the Nova Scotia Technical College had become the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the building's studio level was renovated and mezzanines were added. In the mid-1980s the professional program was transformed, leading to a two-year MArch (first professional) degree with a thesis component. The school began to participate in overseas activities with the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD) and external adjuncts and examiners were appointed. In the late 1980s the Faculty opened a publishing department, Tuns Press, to produce architecture and planning publications. An arrangement with Apple Canada introduced an initial fleet of computers for student use. In 1989 a one-year, non-professional Master of Environmental Design Studies degree was offered.

In 1993, following an international design competition, the first phase of a new addition designed by Brian MacKay-Lyons was built in the rear courtyard of the existing building. In a second phase in 2002, upper floors for studios were added inside the addition. In 1994 the School's professional architecture program became the first in Canada to receive full accreditation from the Canadian Architectural Certification Board. Full accreditation was granted again in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2015. In 1997, a decision by the Nova Scotia government to amalgamate universities led the three faculties of the Technical University of Nova Scotia (Architecture, Engineering, and Computer Science) to become part of Dalhousie University. In 2001 the Faculty of Architecture was renamed the Faculty of Architecture and Planning.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Computer Science

  • Corporate body (Dalhousie University)
  • 1997-
The Faculty of Computer Science was established on 1 April 1997 with the merger of the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) and Dalhousie University. Prior to 1997, computer science was taught through Dalhousie's Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. The Faculty was housed on the 15th and 16th floors of the Maritime Centre until the purpose-built Computer Science facility opened on Dalhousie's Studley campus in 1999. The building was designed by Brian MacKay-Lyons and was featured in Canadian Architect in March 2000, but renamed unnamed until June 2008 when it was designated as the Goldberg Computer Science Building in honour of the Goldberg family. The Goldberg Building is equipped with an auditorium, seminar rooms, study carrels, offices, nine "playgrounds” —large spaces for group or individual research—and an ICT Sandbox for research and development.

de Burger, Ronald

  • Person
Ron de Burger was a highly respected leader in environmental public health in Canada, and Dean of the Faculty of Health from 1988-1992. He died on August 5, 2016.

Maclean, Guy

  • Person
  • 1939-
Guy MacLean was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Dalhousie University, where he received a BA in 1951 and a MA in history in 1953. He was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar for Oxford in 1953, earning an honours BA and a MA, and received a PhD from Duke University in 1958. MacLean taught history at Dalhousie University beginning in 1957, and was Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from 1966–1969, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science from 1969–1975, and Vice-President Academic and Research from 1974-1980. He later became Mount Allison University’s 9th president from July 1980-1986, and was Ombudsman for Nova Scotia from 1989-1994.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Dentistry

  • Corporate body (Dalhousie University)
  • 1908 -

The Faculty of Dentistry is the only dental school east of Montreal and educates over three-quarters of dentists practising in Atlantic Canada. Dalhousie created the faculty in 1908 in affiliation with the recently established Maritime Dental College for the purpose of examining candidates and conferring the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dalhousie also provided lecture and clinical facilities in what is now known as the Forrest Building; in 1912 Dalhousie also assumed responsibility for instruction, and the four students who graduated that year did so as the first class in the Faculty of Dentistry. Teaching continued to be carried out by part-time dental practitioners; with the exception of a brief period in the late forties, until 1953 there was only one full-time faculty member, J. Stanley Bagnall, who himself had graduated from Dalhousie in 1921.

The introduction of government grants as well as private donations and gifts from the Kellogg Foundation enabled the dental school to expand dramatically throughout the 1950s, including the number of full-time faculty, the creation of a school of dental hygiene, and the building of the current Dentistry Building at the corner of Robie Street and University Avenue. By 1967 there were 15 full-time academic staff and 31 part-time faculty members, supported by 20 administrative and technical personnel.

In 1969 the faculty, which, since its beginnings, had operated as a single administrative department, established four departments: Oral Biology; Oral Medicine and Surgery; Restorative Dentistry; and Paediatric and Community Dentistry, with independent department heads or chairs. Today the faculty comprises the School of Dental Hygiene and the departments of Dental Clinical Sciences, Applied Oral Sciences and Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, each made up of its own internal divisions.

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