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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.

Grant applications

Subseries contains correspondence, budgets, and supporting documents for grant applications. The Upstream Music Association applied to these grants to help cover the operational costs of the association, concert seasons, workshops, tours, visiting artists, and commissions from composers. Granting agencies include the Canada Council for the Arts; Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture; Canadian Department of Communications; Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development; Nova Scotia Arts Council; and SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada).

Promotional materials

Subseries contains records relating to the promotional, fundraising, sponsorship, and marketing activities of the Upstream Music Association. Records include membership advertisements and surveys, correspondence with media outlets, and information brochures about the organization.

Workshops

Subseries contains correspondence, press releases, and planning notes used in improvisational workshops presented and/or organized by Upstream. Many of the workshops in this subseries were organized for, or in collaboration with, Dalhousie University music students.

Board of Directors and Artistic Directors

Subseries contains minutes of board meetings, budgets, correspondence, receipts, and tax documents from the executive of the Upstream Music Association, including the Board of Directors and Artistic Directors. These records are not always separated; some files include two or more types of records, while others contain only minutes, or only receipts. Occasionally, files from the Artistic Directors also include information about concerts and season planning (e.g., repertoire of concerts, dates, and venues).

Open Waters Festival

Subseries contains correspondence, budgets, meeting notes, and concert programs produced for, and as a result of, the Open Waters Festival. Subseries also contains records pertaining to Slipstream and Marketstream, improvisational workshops that were part of the festival, and a television promotion for the 1999 Open Waters Festival.

Performance records

Subseries contains documents relating to the preparation, promotion, and execution of concerts hosted and/or performed by the Upstream Ensemble and Upstream Orchestra. Records include concert speaking notes, press releases, programs, photographs, a video recording, rehearsal schedules, American Foundation of Musicians (AFM) contracts, and box office records.

Tours

Subseries contains correspondence, budgets, travel itineraries, concert programs, and set lists relating to the organization of tours for the Upstream Ensemble and Upstream Orchestra.