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Winter summit : a Love Upstream featuring Lori Freedman

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 16
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for a concert and workshop presented by Upstream Music and held at the Sir James Dunn Theatre on January 9 and 10, 2009.

Winter summit : 21st century music concerts : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 13
Item
2010

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising Upstream Music Association's series of winter concerts, which include: "New Music for a New Year," with Symphony Nova Scotia under the direction of Bernhard Gueller; "Halifax Calling!", with the Temporal Follies, featuring Janice Jackson, suddenlyListen Trio & Upstream 6.0; and "Away all Boats!!", with Geordie Haley, Motion Ensemble (NB) and Forum Improvisation Ensemble.

Waltz : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 39
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the first sixteen measures of a three-part anonymous Waltz in 3/4 time.

Upstream Music season finale! : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 18
Item
1992

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for Upstream Music's seasonal finale concert, presented by Dalhousie University Music Department and CKDU 97.5 FM, on Wednesday, April 8, 1992 at the Sir James Dunn Theatre.

Upstream Music presents spring fever weekend : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 6
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is an undated poster for a JazzEast all-ages concert featuring the Pierre Labbe Ensemble, Upstream Orchestra with the Pierre Labbe Ensemble, and The Guerilla Orchestra with Harris Eisenstadt.

Upstream Music Association presents : Tightening the traces : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 5
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising a concert featuring Upstream Ensemble held at Denton Hall, Acadia University on December 1, 2001 and again at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery on December 2, 2001.

Upstream Music Association fonds

MS-5-16
Fonds
1985 - 2010 ; predominantly 1990 - 2010

Fonds contains the administrative, performance, and recording records of the Upstream Music Association; its ensemble, Upstream Ensemble or Orchestra; and its recording label, Undercurrent Recordings.

Upstream Music Association

Upstream live in concert [at] Faculty des Beaux Arts, University of Moncton : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1990]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising an Upstream concert at the Faculty des Beaux Arts, University of Moncton, sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Arts Council, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery and Dalhousie University Department of Music.

Upstream : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 20
Item
1990

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for an Upstream Ensemble concert at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery on Sunday, May 13, 1990.

Upstream : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 19
Item
1990

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for an Upstream Music Ensemble concert at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery on Sunday, September 23, 1990.

Upstream : October Summit : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 2
Item
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for an Upstream concert at Sir James Dunn Theatre on Sunday, October 23, 1994, featuring the Upstream Ensemble, members of Symphony Nova Scotia, and special guests Jamie Gatti and Jim Faraday.

Unnamed improvisational composition : [piano score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 37
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of four accompaniment patterns in Paul Cram's handwriting with instructions for improvised solos written beside each pattern.

Cram, Paul

Ugly Beauties, featuring Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser and Marilyn Lerner : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 10
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is poster advertising an Upstream Music concert held on May 15 and 16, 2009 at 1313 Hollis Street, as well as a workshop held Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Transfigured night : [parts]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 30
File
2000

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the instrumental parts for Paul Cram's compilation of arrangements entitled "Transfigured Night." The piece includes four arrangements: "Wie Lange Noch?" by Kurt Weill for soprano, accordion, and contrabass; String Quartet Op. 28, 2nd movement by Anton Webern for string quartet; "All the Things you Are" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for trumpet, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone; and a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. The piece also includes two newly-composed sections for guitar, bass, and drums, and piano and cello duet.

Cram, Paul

Traffic continues : shadow of a tree on sand : [score]

MS-5-16, OS Box 21, Folder 6
Item
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the first eight measures of the score for Fred Frith's composition "Traffic Continues: Shadow of a Tree on Sand" for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, trumpet, baritone saxophone, piano, percussion, violin, guitar, and double bass.

Frith, Fred

Time chaser : part in B-flat

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 11
Item
1993, 2010

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the B-flat part for Bauer's composition, "Time Chaser," which features piano and trumpet solos.

Bauer, Bob

The Upstream ensemble in concert with special Japanese guests Akikazu Nakamura and Michiyo Yagi : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 8
Item
1993

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising a concert held at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery.

The Upstream ensemble in concert with special guest Conrado Del Rosaria : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 7
Item
1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising a concert held at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery.

The song project : a Love Upstream featuring Erin Costelo : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 9
Item
2008

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for concerts held November 14 & 15, 2008 at 1313 Hollis Street, the first of which included an artist talk and the second an interactive performance.

The ravens by the Tower of London : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 32
Item
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is an annotated copy of Jamieson's composition, which is in five sections. Each section has textual instructions for individual instruments with four musical parts notated at the bottom: melody, accompaniment, B-flat trumpet line, and bass line.

Jamieson, Daryl

The problem : concert pitch

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 23
Item
1985

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the concert pitch part for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "The Problem," in three sections.

Cram, Paul

The empty cup : parts

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 9
File
1997, October

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains parts for Bauer's improvisational composition in five sections: Sitar Drone Atmosphere; Falling - Filling the Cup; The Streets of Calcutta; Ascension - Reaching Beyond Life; and Resolution. The composition is for violin, bassoon, piano, guitar, and oboe and lacks a clear tonal centre and meter.The last section is a canon between the violin and bassoon.

Bauer, Bob

Telescope : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 29
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item contains one annotated copy of "Telescope," a monophonic, atonal composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch.

Cram, Paul

Strong and free : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 28
File
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains two annotated copies of "Strong and Free," a composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch, which improvises on motives from "O Canada."

Cram, Paul

Speed call : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 27
File
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains two annotated copies of "Speed Call," a composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch.

Cram, Paul

Spectacles : [performance instructions]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 40
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the performance instructions for an improvised composition with sixteen possible sets, each defined by four words, that are performed in any order.

Sound fields : [score]

MS-5-16, OS Box 21, Folder 10
Item
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of Sandy Moore's improvisational composition in three sections.

Moore, Sandy

Snowstream : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 34
File
1990

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains five annotated copies of Naylor's score for 11 instrumental parts. Each part includes melodic guidance for improvisation and performers are instructed to switch between parts freely.

Naylor, Steve

Silent movies : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 26
File
1992

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains nine annotated copies of "Silent Movies," a composition by Paul Cram in two parts written at concert pitch. The reverse side of one of the copies includes a set list for "Talk Show," which was part of the 1997 Open Waters Festival.

Cram, Paul

Side steppin' 1 : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 10
Item
[1994]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the score for a composition by Bauer. Bauer divided the instruments into three groups: (1) guitar, oboe, piano, violin; (2) violin, viola, cello, xylophone; and (3) bass clarinet, electric bass, and acoustic bass. The composition alternates between 3/8,4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8, and 12/8 at a tempo of 100 eighth-notes per minute. The score is printed on the back of Bauer's resume.

Bauer, Bob

Saint Mary's University Arts Gallery presents : Upstream : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 1
Item
1991

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising a concert at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery sponsored by Canada Council Explorations Program and Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, featuring Paul Cram, saxophone; Sandy Moore, Irish harp and synthesizer; Bob Bauer, guitar; Steve Tittle, trumpet and flugel horn; Tom Roach, percussion; Don Palmer, saxophone and flute; Steven Naylor, keyboards; and Jeff Reilly, clarinet and bass clarinet.

Row, row, row : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 25
File
1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains two copies of "Row, Row, Row," a SOCAN composition by Paul Cram that contains four tone rows.

Cram, Paul

Riffs a la rondo : [for piano]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 35
File
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains four annotated copies of Naylor's handwritten piece for piano.

Palmer, Chris

Pulse track : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 24
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of two "Pulse Tracks" by Paul Cram.

Cram, Paul

Posters for Upstream Ensemble concerts

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 25
File
1990-2006

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File comprises posters for events presented by Upstream Music Association, primarily Upstream Ensemble concerts.

Paul Cram's CONVOY HFX : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 14
Item
2006

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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.

Open Waters festival of new and improvised music : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 11
Item
[1998 or 1999]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising the Open Waters Festival, held at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts on November 1, 3, 6 & 7, 1998 or 1999.

Open waters / Upstream : a new music collective : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 12
Item
2015

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising Upstream's recording Open Waters, which was released on compact disc and cassette on November 4, 2015.

Nocturne : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 33
Item
1990

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

Neither fire nor place : [score]

MS-5-16, OS Box 21, Folder 5
Item
1998

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

Nasca lines : part 3 : percussion, drums, synthesizer or accordion, guitar, and electric bass

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 24, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the graphic notation score used by the rhythm section for part 3 of Nasca Lines. The score was used by the drummer for the premiere performance. As the drums are tacet for the first page, this page is not included.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines

Subseries
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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.

My 20th century multimedia concert : music/video/theatre : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 16
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for a Bradyworks ensemble concert featuring Tim Brady (music and texts), Stephané Zarov (stage direction), and Martin Messier and Oana Suteu (video). The concert was held in the CBC Radio Room on Thursday, October 22, 2009, one of nine concerts in a Canadian tour.

Muraille de Cayne : tenor saxophone

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 41
File
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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.

Mountains of madness : concert pitch

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 44
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of an anonymous melody entitled "Mountains of Madness," handwritten at concert pitch.

Monk on time : clarinet in B-flat

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 22
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the B-flat part for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "Monk on time," which was funded by SOCAN.

Cram, Paul

Mediterranean eyes : version for small orchestra : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 31
Item
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of Steve Tittle's "Mediterranean Eyes," originally commissioned in 1983 by the Atlantic Canada Trio (flute, piano, and double bass) and revised in 1996 for small orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, and strings).

Tittle, Steve

March of the Philistines : saxophone in E-flat and clarinet in B-flat

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 21
File
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the E-flat and B-flat parts for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "March of the Philistines."

Cram, Paul

Les mouton à l'abattoir : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 20
File
1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Les Mouton à L'Abbatoir," an atonal composition funded by SOCAN, which consists of a monophonic melody.

Cram, Paul

Kickers : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 19
File
1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Kickers," in five parts. Each of the five parts is a short phrase. The composition was funded by SOCAN.

Cram, Paul

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