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Concerto for piano and orchestra : [performance guidelines]

File includes liner notes, recording timing notes, and notes for corrections to the score, all for the recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto. The liner notes were written by Ralph Gustafson, a friend of Villa-Lobos and Ellen Ballon, to whom the concerto is dedicated and who performed the concerto for its recording in 1948. The concerto was written in Rio de Janeiro in 1945. The file includes directions for transcribing Villa-Lobos' piano concerto from the records of its American premiere in Dallas, Texas with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati.

Concert programs, reviews and promotional records

File contains correspondence, posters, programs and contracts for recitals and concerts in which Stephen Pedersen performed solo, with his wife, Virginia Beaton, and with groups including Scotia Winds, Chebucto Symphony Orchestra, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony.

Concert programs

File contains programs for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra's 6th subscription concert; The Banff School Festival Ballet; Scotia Festival's Conductors in Concert; Banff School Festival Orchestra, and St. Matthew Passion, sung by The Dalhousie Chorale.

Concert parts for Paul Cram compositions

File includes concert parts for "Ambulatory"; "Lamnations"; "The Problem"; "Groucho Joe"; "Happy Talk"; "Caravan"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Somewhere in Between"; "Wave Surface"; "Volga Boat Race"; "Walk!!!"; and "Campin Out."

Concert- live at Khyber

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a concert performance at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax Nova Scotia.

Concert- final mix

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of the Upstream Ensemble performing in concert. The container label attributes the works "Immortal Coil" to Paul Cram and "Sunrise" to Jeff Reilly. It also notes "Improv #1", Naylor- "Nocturne", Bob Bauer- "Valse Triste", and Tittle- "intellectual Dancing".

Compose Yourself — Grammar School

File contains parts for Paul Cram's "Irons in the Fire," an 11-minute piece for chamber orchestra commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia and premiered by Upstream Ensemble in the fall of 1999. Parts include: guitar; tenor sax; solo electric cello; piano; accordion; alto sax; bass clarinet; drums; electric bass; violin 1; violin 2; viola; cello; contrabass; flute 1; flute 2; oboe 1; oboe 2; clarinet 1; clarinet 2; bassoon 1; bassoon 2; trumpet 1; trumpet 2; French horn 1; French horn 2; timpani; and marimba. The parts were copies for a Halifax Grammar School concert or workshop in 2012/2013.

Compact disc with six tracks

Item is one compact disc with six tracks titled:
1. Unknown
2. Foghorn sound
3. Blue Monday by New Order
4. It's Love by Jill Scott (remixed version)
5. Unknown
6. Circus by Britney Spears (remixed version)

Come unto me : [sheet music]

Item is the sheet music for a solo voice and piano composition in D Major by Molly MacDonald of the MacDonald Music Co. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She published her music under the pseudonym of "Elza Doun."

Clustrix : [score]

File contains three annotated copies of the score for Sandy Moore's composition "Clustrix" for piano, electric guitar, harp, bass clarinet, horns, and cymbal.

Moore, Sandy

Clarinet, tenor sax, bass, drum and concert parts for Paul Cram compositions

  • MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 24
  • File
  • [between 1988 and 2007]
  • Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains annotated drum, trombone and bass parts for "1963," "Revolutions" and "Under the Double Standard"; trumpet part for "Under the Double Standard"; bass part for "Zones"; Tenor and alto sax parts for "Tango Oreo"; clarinet parts for "March of the Philistines" and "Get up and Go"; Bb and concert parts for "Monk on Time"; concert parts for "On the Lam";"Telescope"; "Live it Up"; "Mandarins"; "Lonely Woman"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Round Trip"; "Heads Up"; and "In Mufti." There are also parts for various jigs and for "Public Nuance," by Gregg Simpson.

CKDU Radio fonds

  • UA-47
  • Fonds
  • 1975 -
Fonds contains sound recordings broadcast on CKDU Radio. From 1984 until February 14, 2006, CKDU Radio transmitted on 97.5 FM; on February 14, 2006, the station changed to 88.1 FM.

CKDU Radio

Circuits : [part]

Item is an original handwritten composition in both traditional musical and graphic notation.

CHNS solitude , John Arab & Sheila Piercey - February 18, 1962

Item is a reel-to-reel recording of John Arab (baritone) and Sheila Piercey (soprano) singing at CHNS Solitude radio broadcast on February 18, 1962. Handwritten notes on the reel box read:
featuring Ray Calder at Hammond Organ
1. Serenade - Ray
2. John : The World Is Mine Tonight
3. Ray : Romance
4. Sheila : "Getting to Know You" from the King and I (#165 on tape)
5. Ray : Persuaisan Waltz
C.O.C. The Capital Theatre, Le Boheme February 19, 1962

Chipper : [score]

Item is a copy of a handwritten piece called "Chipper," by Don Palmer. The piece is for solo alto recorder with harp, flute, clarinet, Flugal horn, and bass clarinet. The piece is in C Major and has a 3/4 time signature.

Palmer, Don

Chichester Psalms

File contains a program, flyer, and two posters for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers. The file also includes newspaper clippings of reviews of the concert.

Chateau Lake Louise

Item is a reel-to-reel recording of a recital by Sheila Piercey (soprano) and John Linn (music director) at Chateau Lake Louise. Handwritten notes inside of the box lid read: Chateau Lake Louise
"Laughing song"
"Songs my mother taught me"
"My fair lady"
"The poplar tree"

Mozart - "Alleluia" - Sheila Piercey
Puccini - "O mio Babbino Caro" - Sheila Piercey
"When Love is Kind" A.L - Sheila Piercey

Schumann - John Linn (played) 7 pieces (from Kinderszenen "Scenes from Childhood")
George Gershwin - John Linn
Ritual fire dance - John Linn
Malagueñ (a song by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona) - John Linn

Mendelssohn - "On Wings of Song"
"Still as the Night"
"Songs My Mother Taught Me"
"The Whispering Poplar"
"As I Went a Roaming" - By May H. Brahe

Chanties by various authors

File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.

Chant du ménestrel, op. 71

Item is a copy of "Minstrel's Song" by Alexandre Glazunov for cello and piano, dedicated to Mr. A. Wierzbilowicz, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Celtic mass for the sea

File contains a program for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers, performed as part of the Centre Bras d'Or 10th Annual Festival of the Arts, presented by the University College of Cape Breton. The performance featured Scott MacMillan's "Celtic Mass for the Sea".

Cello parts from the PCO "Campin Out" tour

File contains cello parts for the Paul Cram Orchestra's second Canadian tour in September 2001 in support of the band’s debut CD on the Victo Label, “Campin Out.” The group played Halifax, Ottawa (National Library of Canada), Guelph (Guelph Jazz Festival), Vancouver (Western Front), and Montreal (Sala Rossa). Works included are: "Trouble in Paradise"; "Kafka's Chair"; "Eye of the Storm"; "High Ground"; "Have a Heart"; "Tip of the Iceberg"; various works from "B flat Restaurant"; "March of the Philistines"; various works from "Thunder"; "Urban Desperado"; "Campin' Out"; "Life of Crime"; "Taiwanese Bootleg"; "Zebra Zone"; and "Immortal Coil."

Celebrating the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

Item is a poster for Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Artistic director Woody Woods. Musical director Leslie B. Dunner.

CD rom- demo

  • MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 10
  • Item
  • [between 1985 and 2000]
  • Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a performance by the Upstream Ensemble.

CBX : [part]

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram.

CBC radio recording of valentine's concert, February 14, 1982 (side B)

Item is a concert recording of Sheila Piercey and Elvira Gonnella performing the duet 'I Will Choose the Handsome Dark One' from Cosi fan tutte for the concert titled "Valentine Serenade" in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre on February 14, 1982, that aired on CBC Radio. The recording is on side B of audio cassette.

CBC radio recording of valentine's concert, February 14, 1982 (side A)

Item is a concert recording of Sheila Piercey and Elvira Gonnella performing the duet 'I Will Choose the Handsome Dark One' from Cosi fan tutte for the concert titled "Valentine Serenade" in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre on February 14, 1982, that aired on CBC Radio. The recording is on side A of audio cassette.

CBC radio recording of valentine's concert, February 14, 1982

File is an audio cassette tape with concert recordings of Sheila Piercey and Elvira Gonnella performing the duet 'I Will Choose the Handsome Dark One' from Cosi fan tutte for the concert titled "Valentine Serenade" in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre on February 14, 1982, that aired on CBC Radio.

CBC radio recording of "Le Rossignol" and few thoughts (side B)

Item is an audio recording of CBC radio regarding the opera "Le Rossignol/The Nightingale" that Sheila Piercey (title role) performed in 1957, followed by a recording on April 8, 1994, of Sheila talking about the early days of her music career as well as her personal life. The recording is on side B of audio cassette.
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