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Music Gallery performance

  • MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 31
  • Item
  • December 8, 1989

    • Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a recording of a performance by the Hemispheres Ensemble at the Music Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. The container label lists the songs performed: "The Dice are Loaded" - Peter Hatch, "Darkness and Grace" -Rainer Wiens, "3-D Head" -Tom Walsh, "Beyond Benghazi" -Paul Cram, and from the Nutcracker Suite "Arabesque Cookie", "Chinoiserie", and "Dance of the Floreadores" -Ellington/Strayhorn/Tchaikovsky (1960).

Music notebook

File contains a bound notebook used by Kenneth Leslie for the purposes of writing musical notations and scores, presumably from the 1930s. The notebook is largely blank, with only four pages used by Leslie. The first page contains an untitled melody fragment four bars long in the F-major key, written in pencil, with notations in both bass and treble. The second page contains a fragment of a song entitled "Sheep and Lambs", with music by Kenneth Leslie and words by Katharine Tynan (misspelled "Katherine"), with treble notations, in 3/4 metre and the F-major key. The third entry is a song entitled "So It Rises So It Soars", with words and music by Leslie, written in G-major key, the first two lines being "Builder of my growing soul / Found in deeply as you must". The fourth and final entry is an eight-bar fragment, in G-major, following a leaf that was torn out.

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.

My love she walks not with me : [manuscript]

File contains a handwritten manuscript of a song entitled "My love she walks not with me", with words and music by Kenneth Leslie, undated (but written presumably in the mid-1930s, after the collapse of his first marriage). The song is written in F-major, contains 24 bars of music in treble, and begins with the lines "The fragrance of the hawthorn and the rose after rain / Makes my misery completer". Music and words are written on only one page.

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

Newspaper clippings

Series contains newspaper clippings about Ellen Ballon. Clippings include articles about a variety of subjects, including Ellen Ballon's life in general, concerts, and her hobbies.

Newspaper clippings concerning concerts and other topics

File contains newspaper clippings that mention Ellen Ballon. Topics range from concert reviews, her favourite recipes, lifestyle, the death of her mother (Charlotte Ballon, nee Klein), and her contributions during the Second World War. One of the articles reports on her premiere performance in Rio de Janeiro of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.

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

Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach

File contains a copy of the 1906 publication of Anna Magdalena's 1725 Notebook with various short piano compositions, edited by Dr. Richard Batka. The book is inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Clara Lichtenstein, her teacher at McGill Conservatorium of Music, and dated April 7, 1910 in Montreal.

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.
Novellette : etude in seconds : op. 22, no. 1

Novellette : etude in seconds : op. 22, no. 1

File contains the manuscript for Alberto Jonàs' "Novelette" for piano, which he wrote for Ellen Ballon. Ballon was one of his students in New York from c. 1916 until 1925.

Jonàs, Alberto

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 Maid and Secret of Susanna

  • MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 41
  • File
  • March 27, 1968 and February 26, 1969

    • Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

File is an audio cassette tape with recordings of Sheila Piercey singing in the operas "The Old Maid and the Thief" and "The Secret of Susanna." These were student productions by the Metro School Board of Toronto as part of their educational program.
"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

Once upon a Dream

Item is a program for a piano recital held in 2010 by Bunny Shore (music director for many TAG pantomimes) as a thanksgiving for a return to health after a serious illness. Donations were used to purchase a keyboard for Pond Playhouse.

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.

Orpheus 1971

File is an audio cassette tape with recordings of Orpheus in the Underworld by Sheila Piercey made on April 5, 1971, at a Sudbury performance. Labelled: Bacchus - Alan Crofoot, Eurydice - Sheila Piercey
Orpheus in the Underworld : Act I + Act III (side B)

Orpheus in the Underworld : Act I + Act III (side B)

Item is an audio recording of Orpheus in the Underworld by Sheila Piercey made on April 5, 1971, at a Sudbury performance. Labelled: Bacchus - Alan Crofoot, Eurydice - Sheila Piercey . The recording is on side B of audio cassette.
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