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Stephen Pedersen fonds

  • MS-5-23
  • Fonds
  • 1964 - 2000
Fonds contains records related to Stephen Pedersen's music teaching, composing and performance activities. Record types include manuscript music scores, sound recordings, posters and programs, contracts and correspondence.

Pedersen, Stephen Alan

Early concert programs and reviews

File contains recital and concert programs and reviews from Stephen Pedersen's student days; a copy of the National Composers' Competition of the Jeunesses Musicales of Canada entry rules; and a letter of rejection from the Canadian Music Centre. There are also programs for two flute seminars.

Gonfalons for two flutes

File contains scores, textual notes and a letter addressed to "Daedalus" acknowledging his entry—"Gonfalons for Two Flutes"—in the Centennial Competition for Canadian Student Composers.

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.

Concerts in historic settings

File contains records about the Heritage Trust's concert series, for which Stephen Pedersen was musical director, including a 1979 annual report of the Heritage Trust; small posters; and a newspaper clipping. There are also notes and a script for An Evening with Adele Hugo in Halifax, and correspondence with Nimbus Publishing about the possibility of a book and cassette series based on the concert series.

Atlantic Camera Trio

File contains correspondence, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, programs and notes related to the Atlantic Camera Trio and other groups with which Stephen Pedersen performed.

Halifax Explosion Memorial Evening

File contains notes, a script, correspondence, and newspaper clippings regarding a Halifax Explosion Memorial Evening held at St. George's Anglican Church, Halifax, with musical direction by Stephen Pedersen.