File contains award letter, program and related materials of the Governor General's Literary Award, held at the Rideau Hall in Ottawa on December 10th, 2008. File also contains printed photographs of Catherine at the Library of Parliament and the 2008 Governor General's Award winners. Catherine Banks won Governor General's Award for English-language Drama for her play Bone Cage.
File contains records related to A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, directed by Gisela O'Brien and produced by Bill VanGorder. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from April 18-May 4, 2013. Records include a program; small poster; photographs of the cast and crew; and a DVD recording.
File contains records related to A Night in the Theatre, written by Lawrence Casler and directed by Nick Jupp. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from February 21-March 8, 2008. Records include a producer's report; program; small poster; newspaper reviews; DVD video recording; and CD-R containing photographs of the cast and crew.
File contains records related to Ian McCutcheon's A Spirit for Evermore, directed by J. Frederick Brown and produced by Michele Moore. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from December 3-19, 2009. Records include a producer's report; program; DVD recording; and cards and a letter of appreciation from audience members.
File contains materials related to A Time for Quiet and Healing, the weekly service and vigil hosted by CARAS for people living with AIDS, their friends, family, and supporters. materials include posters, flyers, programs, sheet music, clippings, and notes.
File contains records related to Aladdin, a Christmas Pantomime by Norman Robbins, directed by Lorne Abramson and produced by Cheryl Theriault, with music direction by Leslie Grantham and Wayne MacIntyre and choreography by Louise Renault. The play ran at the Pond Playhouse from December 6-22, 2001. Records include a producer's report; small poster; email correspondence with budget information; and photographs of the cast, crew and stage.
File includes records related to Ali Baba and the Seven Thieves, by Ron Nicol, directed by Rebecca Humphreys, Eric Rountree and Cheryl Theriault. The play was performed at Pond Playhouse from November 30-December 16, 2006. Records include a producer's report; program; small poster; and DVD video recording.
File contains records related to Alice in Wonderland, by Andrew O'Leary, directed by Angela Butler and Kelly Doney Morrison with musical direction and original score by Ralph Urquhart, and produced by Geraldine MacDonald. Records include a show producer's report; program; and DVD recording.
File contains records related Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, directed by Gisele O'Brien and produced by Bill VanGorder. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from April 13-30, 2011. Records include a program; small poster; two reviews; a CD containing digital images of a rehearsal and front of house; and a DVD recording.
File contains Anthony Pugh's handwritten analytical excerpts for the Manfred overture by Robert Schumann, Cariolan overture by Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.14 in E-flat major, K.449 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and an unidentified work by Johann Sebastian Bach. The file also includes programs for the Brunswick String Quartet and Valerie Tyron's Waater Baker Memorial Concert, both with program notes by Anthony Pugh.
File contains Anthony Pugh's handwritten analytical excerpts, research notes, and drafts of program notes for compositions by the following composers: E. Broughton, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arthur Bliss, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Villiers Stanford, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, and Dmitry Sitkovesky. The file also contains a copy of a National Arts Centre program, which Pugh presumably used in his research, and a program from the 16th Annual Festival of Chamber Music and All that Jazz in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The file also contains a numerical coded index of composers and works, and a list of works and composers (also coded) that Anthony Pugh studied, listened to on his own records and borrowed records, heard on radio broadcasts, and heard on his own and borrowed tapes from 1980 to 1982.
File includes records related to Angel Street, by Patrick Hamilton, directed by Beth VanGorder. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from June 26-July 12, 2003. Records include one program; 10 photographs of the cast, crew and set; and one videocassette.
File contains records related to Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesserling, directed by Colette Lambert and produced by Tom Patillo. The play ran at the Pond Playhouse from July 5 - July 21, 2001. Records include a producer's report; program; newspaper review; photographs of the cast, crew and stage; and one videocassette.
File contains correspondence, brochures, scores and photographs related to Stephen Pedersen's series of musical events at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery in connection with the exhibition, "Mozart's World."
File contains a program and poster for a concert presented by the Confederation Centre for the Arts. The program included performances by the Christ Church Cathedral Trebles from Fredricton, New Brunswick, conducted by Jeffrey Campbell, and the Halifax Camerata Singers, conducted by Jeff Joudrey and accompanied by Diana Torbert.
File contains a booklet entitled "Tributes to F.H. Torrington," signed by Frederick Herbert Torrington (founder and conductor of various Toronto festivals, orchestras, choruses, and the Toronto College of Music). The booklet contains reprints of newspaper articles written about Torrington, a list of festivals in Toronto directed by Torrington, and a partial list of works performed in Toronto under his direction.
File contains the autograph of the tenor Leo Slezak of the Metropolitan Opera Company, signed on a piece of letterhead from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
File contains an autographed program for a concert sponsored by the Halifax Community Concert Association at Capitol Theatre. Mischa Elman was accompanied by Carroll Hollister on the piano.
File contains an autographed program by the Hambourg Trio (Geza de Kresz, violin; Reginald Stewart, piano; and Boris Hambourg, cello). The program is from a recital at Pythian Castle, Saint Join, New Brunswick. File also contains J.D. Logan's 1909-1910 season pass for the Massey Music Hall in Toronto, Ontario.
File contains three copies of the program for Awake the world, a multimedia presentation on AIDS hosted by AIDS-Link, held at St. Matthew's Church in Halifax on November 29, 1998.
File contains records related to Babes in the Wood, by Paul Reakes, directed by Jeff Pocock. The pantomime was performed at Pond Playhouse from December 3-19, 1999. Records include a copy of a newspaper review; a program; a small poster; and a videocassette.
File contains records related to the pantomime Beauty and the Beast, by James Barry, directed by Angela Butler and produced by Helen Goodwin. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from December 2-18, 2010. Records include a program and small poster.
File contains a program and two playbills for a pair of Samuel Beckett plays performed at Toronto's The Theatre Centre as part of a nuclear disarmament benefit. Happy Days was directed by Mary Vingoe.
File contains records related to Bell, Book and Candle, a romantic comedy by John Van Druten, directed by Bill VanGorder and produced by Peter Strain. The play ran at the Pond Playhouse from July 4-20, 2002. Records include a small poster; a program; a newspaper review; three pages of photocopied photographs of the cast and crew; and a letter of appreciation from an audience member.
File contains records related to Belles, by Mark Dunn, directed by Angela Butler and produced by Scott Murphy. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from September 27-October 13, 2007. Records include a producer's report; program; small poster; newspaper review; and DVD video recording.
File contains records related to Best of Friends, by James Elward, directed by Rebecca Humphries and produced by Ann Miller. It was performed at the Pond Playhouse from February 24 to March 12, 2005. Records include a program and two reviews.
File contains a program and advertisement for a concert by Symphony Nova Scotia, conducted by Georg Tintner, in collaboration with the First Baptist Church Choir, directed by David MacDonald; Georgian Singers of Halifax, directed by Dr. Walter Kemp; Halifax Camerata Singers, directed by Jeff Joudrey; and Truro Cantabile Singers, directed by Jeff Joudrey. The file also contains a translation for the text of Brahms' German Requiem, Op. 45 and two newspaper reviews of the concert. The concert also included a performance of Peter Lieberson's Viola Concerto No. 1, featuring Steven Dann as the soloist.
File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's memorial talk for Margaret Laurence, delivered at Trent University on February 2, 1987 and later published in the Canadian Woman Studies journal. The file also contains a copy of the program from Wilson's memorial tribute and a copy of an article on Budge Wilson's address at the Halifax Main Library on Margaret Laurence.
File contains records related to Camelot the Panto, by Ben Crocker, directed by Angela Butler with musical direction by Bunny Shore. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from November 29-December 15, 2012. Records include a program; post-production meeting report and recommendations; small poster; and newspaper reviews.
File contains a program and outline of the event for a performance by the Halifax Camerata Singers in the Great Hall of the University Club at Dalhousie University. The file also contains a memorandum from Bertrum MacDonald to Jeff Joudrey with details about the venue.
File contains a program, two copies of a poster, blank door prize forms, and newspaper clippings of advertisements for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers at St. Andrew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert featured sacred and secular choral music.
File contains Budge Wilson's notes, correspondence, and programs for the Sharla Project, which included appearances in Churchill, Winnipeg, and Mexico City. The Canadian portion of the trip went from October 26 to November 4, 1998.
File contains records related to Richard Coleman's Captain Hook's Revenge (Adapted from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan), directed by Angela Butler and Lorne Abramson. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from December 1-17, 2011. Records include a program; newspaper review; and DVD recording.
File contains the order of carols for Halifax Camerata Singers' performance on CBC Information Morning as part of a special program for raising supplies and funds for the Food Bank. Twenty out of twenty-five members of the choir were in attendance.
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".
