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Mother's flag : [sheet music]

Mother's flag : [sheet music]

File contains the sheet music for a song by Paul Heinrich with words by Dr. Charles H. Baltzer (published in 1910). The front cover is autographed by Baltzer and a note on the last page indicates that it was sent from Baltzer of Middleton, Nova Scotia. The file also includes 7 poems by Baltzer (not set to music): "Charity," "Apostrophe to the Sun," "The Tree," "To Next Summer,""A Bachelor's Lament,""Frost Ere Roses," and "Greed." Some of the poems are from newspaper clippings and others indicate that they were published in the Halifax Chronicle and the Halifax Herald.
MPBN radio recording of "Vanessa" and concert for nanny Mack and Agnes (side A)

MPBN radio recording of "Vanessa" and concert for nanny Mack and Agnes (side A)

Item is an audio recording by Sheila Piercey in 1981. The first part of the recording is an MPBN radio recording of "Vanessa," an American opera produced by Samuel Barber, aired on September 21, 1981. The second part of the recording (13:22) is Sheila Piercey's practice session with mum and nanny. Handwritten notes on the label inserted in the cassette case read: "concert for Nanny Mack and Agnes, mum playing piano, “Alleluia" Mozart, O mio babbino/Jewel Song. Nanny died five months later." The recording is on side A of audio cassette.

Muraille de Cayne : tenor saxophone

File contains two copies of the tenor saxophone part of a composition entitled "Muraille de Cayne." "Robert Leriche" is handwritten at the bottom of one of the parts, potentially indicating him as the composer.

Musique royale presents the Nova Scotia Mass Choir

Item is a poster for the Musique Royale concert series featuring the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Temple Baptist Church in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Nasca lines

Subseries contains the conductor’s score, instrumental, and vocal parts used for the premiere performance of Nasca Lines by Barry Guy. Nasca Lines is a one-hour, seven-part work that was commissioned by the Upstream Ensemble and premiered in collaboration with the Symphony Nova Scotia on June 3, 2001 at the Scotia Festival with conductor and composer, Barry Guy.

The composition is named after and inspired by the geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru, which include outlines of animals and various geometric shapes. Graphical representations of a selection of these geoglyphs are used in the graphic notation of this score, particularly in parts 3 and 7.

Nasca Lines is an atonal work that uses a combination of composed material, based on tone rows and pitch class sets, and guided improvisation. There are twenty instrumental parts and one vocal part.

Nasca lines

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of the work "Nasca Lines" performed by the Upsream Orchestra with Janice Jackson at the Scotia Festival of Music by CBC radio.

Nature of the beast / Paul Cram

Item is Paul Cram's score in 7 parts for clarinet, trumpet, alto, tenor, trombone, baritone, bassoon, cello, timpani, guitar, piano, bass and drums.

Neither fire nor place : [score]

Item is the first seven measures of the score for Fred Frith's composition "Neither Fire nor Place" for flute, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, piano, percussion, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Frith, Fred

Nocturne : [score]

Item is a copy of Naylor's composition for flute, saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, vibraphone, electric guitar, piano, and percussion. The composition is dedicated to Earle Hagen

Naylor, Steve

Nova Scotia Mass Choir

Item is a poster for a Nova Scotia Mass Choir concert at the Festival Theatre in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The concert was a part of the Acadia Performing Arts Series and featured guest soloist, Linda Carvery.

Nova Scotia Mass Choir gospel in the round

Item is a poster promoting a concert by the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Saint George's Round Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 11, 2000. The event celebrated two hundred years of the church.

Noye's fludde, a medieval pageant

Item is a poster of Benjamin Britten's production, "Noye's Fludde, A Medieval Pageant," in support of Saint George's YouthNet at Saint George's Round Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Directed by Jeremy Webb. Musical director Garth MacPhee. The production featured Jeremiah Sparks, Deborah Allen, and others.

NSAC

  • MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 33
  • Item
  • December 6, 2000 - February 1, 2001

    • Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a recording of a performance by Upstream Music Association for Nova Scotia Arts Council on February 1, 2001. It also contains Jeff Reilly's work "Ghost Tracks" performed by the Upstream Orchestra on December 6, 2000.

O. W. #1

  • MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 34
  • Item
  • February 21, 1997

    • Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a performance by the Upstream Ensemble with Symphony Nova Scotia. The container is labelled O.W. #1, probably in reference to their CD "Open Waters". The container label also notes one track entitled "Sympathy".

OHMYGOD! : [parts]

File includes multiple copies of the 12 parts of Paul Cram's score OHMYGOD!, which includes: drums; trumpet; violin; bass clarinet; bass; tenor sax; flute; baritone sax; voice; audio; and guitar.
"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall

One heart broken into song : [parts]

File contains soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone parts for "Swing Low" and alto, tenor and baritone saxophone parts for Paul Cram's "One Heart Broken into Song," from his score for the film of the same name, directed by Clement Virgo and written by George Elliott Clarke.

Open waters

  • MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 36
  • Item
  • November 16, 1999

    • Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a performance by the Upstream Ensemble with Symphony Nova Scotia and Weigold.

Out of the ashes : [score]

Item is a conductor's score for "Out of the Ashes," a concert work composed by Paul Cram for Upstream Ensemble. The piece was registered with SoCan in August 1990 and renewed in 1994. It debuted at Saint Mary's University on September 23, 1990. Instrumentation includes flute and soprano saxophone (reed one), clarinet and tenor saxophone (reed two), bass clarinet and clarinet (reed three), trumpet, synth one, synth two and piano, and drums.

Out of the ashes / Paul Cram

Item is Paul Cram's concert score for reed 1/flute & soprano sax, red 2/clarinet & tenor sax, reed 3/bass clarinet & clarinet, trumpet, synth 1, synth 2 & piano, drums. The cover page includes the [part?] titles: deep, island, trench, atlantic, north, dance, temple. burning, water, eruption, millenium, sinking, ruins, cleansing, plague dancing, party to the end, cool fire, cold heat, ritual mountains to cinders and ash.
Paul Cram's CONVOY HFX : [poster]

Paul Cram's CONVOY HFX : [poster]

Item is a poster advertising a concert held at Alderney Landing Theatre on Monday, October 30, 2006. It was presented in association with Eastern Front Theatre and the Canadian Music Centre's New Music in New Places initiative on the set of Michael Melski's play Corvette Crossing.

Photograph of B.B. King

Item is a photograph of B.B. King playing the guitar with the handwritten annotation "To Bucky From B.B." No date is noted.

Photograph of Brainerd Blyden-Taylor

Item is a photograph of Brainerd Blyden-Thomas, director of the Orpheus Choir and one of the founding directors of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Photograph of Bruce Chapman

Item is a photograph of Bruce Chapman with two unnamed individuals taken by Marcin Moka Photography and developed by Joy O'Brien.
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