Archives Catalogue

MS-5-16, Box 2, Folder 16
File
1996-1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains Upstream's application for the 1996-1997 season annual student improvisation and composition workshop at Dalhousie University. File also contains related correspondence and statements of accounts from SOCAN for Upstream.

Programs and promotional materials for concert season

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 21
File
1996-1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes programs for the following concerts: "Upstream in Concert" (January 27, 1996 at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery); "Upstream in Concert" (November 9, 1996 at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery); "Open Waters presents Symphony Nova Scotia" (February 21, 1997 at St. Andrew's Church); 'Upstream Live" (March 1, 1997 at Harvey Denton Hall, Acadia University); and "Symphony Nova Scotia goes UpStream" (March 8, 1997 at the Canadian Martyrs Church). File also contains Upstream's press kit for the 1996-1997 season and copies of newspaper clippings.

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

Budgets and balance sheets for the Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 9
File
1996-1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Application to Canada Council for the Arts Small Ensembles Program

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 27
File
1996-1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Application to Canada Council for the Arts Multi-Year Contemporary and New Music Organizations Program

Ms-5-16, Box 4, Folder 28
File
1996-1998

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains correspondence from the Canada Council and two annotated copies of the application for funding for Upstream's 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons.

Upstream plays Moore : concert proposal

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 17
File
1995, February 9

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains a proposal for a concert, submitted for the 1994-1995 concert season by Sandy Moore.

Reports from the Artistic Directors

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 4
File
1995-1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the Upstream Artistic Director's report for the 1995/1996 and 1996/1997 seasons, and the Upstream Artistic Directors Committee report for the Annual General Meeting on September 23, 1995.

Minutes of the Board of Directors

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 5
File
1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the agenda for the Board of Director's Extraordinary Meeting and Annual General Meeting (September 23, 1995) and the Board of Director's meeting (May 2, 1995).

Minutes and correspondence of the Board of Directors

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 7
File
1995-1999

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File also contains financial balance sheets.

Correspondence regarding funding from the Nova Scotia Department of Education

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 26
File
1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Correspondence with the Maarten Altena Ensemble

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 30
File
1995, February 1

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains a letter from the Maarten Altena Ensemble of Amsterdam to Steven Naylor regarding the Ensemble's tour of Canada.

Minutes, budgets, and correspondence of the Artistic Directors

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 3
File
1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Upstream plays Moore : program notes

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 18
File
1995, May 13-14

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Budgets for the Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 6
File
1995-1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Program and poster for the October Summit

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 17
File
1994, October 23

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains promotional materials for a concert that featured the Upstream Ensemble (Bob Bauer, Paul Cram, Sandy Moore, Steven Naylor, Don Palmer, Jeff Reilly, and Tom Roach); members of Symphony Nova Scotia (George Maxmann, Christopher Wilkinson, Susan Sayle, Norman Adas, Max Kasper, Suzanne Lemieux, Christopher Palmer, and Charlie MacKinnon); and friends (Jim Faraday, Jamie Gatti, Barry Campbell, Cheryl Edgett, Charlotte Harper, Lynda Rosborough, Rick Hebb, and Don Roach).

Planning and promotional records for concert season

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 19
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes budgets, rehearsal schedules, program notes, and press releases.

Proposal for improvisational composition workshop with the Dalhousie Department of Music

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 2
File
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes a summary of the project, budget, schedule, and curriculum.

Correspondence regarding improvisational composition workshop

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1994]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes a letter from Dawn Hatfield, which likely concerns the improvisational composition ensemble workshops led by the Upstream Ensemble at the Department of Music, Dalhousie University.

Correspondence with Undercurrent Recordings

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 59
File
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Minutes of the annual general meeting of the Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 1, Folder 22
File
September 17, 1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Artistic liaison report to the Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 1, Folder 25
File
September 17, 1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Application to the SOCAN Foundation

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 25
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

The Paris new music review : international coverage of new music

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 24
File
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the March 1994 and April 1994 issues of "The Paris New Music Review," sent to Paul Cram, which include articles on the Upstream Music Association.

Upstream Music Association membership advertisements

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 25
File
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Program for the Spring Fever Festival

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 16
File
1994, April 12-15

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Records from Westward Ho concert featuring Steve Tittle

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 15
File
1994, May 1

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes a concert program, correspondence, press release, and poster. This concert featured original compositions by Steve Tittle and was his "bon voyage to Nova Scotia."

Program and poster for Saturnalia

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 18
File
1994, December 11

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains records from a concert entitled "Saturnalia: A Festival of Light" at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, which featured two silent films: "Teller That You Love Her," film by Glenn Walton, music by Paul Cram; and "Lulu's Back in Town," by Lulu Keating, music by Sandy Moore. The music to both films was provided by the Upstream Ensemble (Bob Bauer, Paul Cram, Sandy Moore, Steven Naylor, Don Palmer, Jeff Reilly, and Jamie Gatti).

Records regarding an improvisational composition workshop at Dalhousie Department of Music

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 4
File
1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes correspondence, planning notes, budgets, schedules, and grant applications.

Records of Jeff Reilly, Artistic Director

MS-5-16, Box 1, Folder 26
File
1994-1997

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains cheque stubs, budgets, notes regarding Upstream Ensemble's performances, correspondence, Artistic Director reports to the Board, Reilly's notes from Board meetings, proposals, and copies of grant applications.

Application to Canada Council for the Arts Small Ensembles Program

MS-5-16, Box 2, Folder 15
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains rough notes for the application, copies of newspaper articles about the Upstream Ensemble, and related correspondence.

Records from An Improvisational Composition Ensemble concert

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 15
File
1994, April 6

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains notes and posters for a concert presented by the Dalhousie Music Department and Upstream Music Association entitled "An Improvisational Composition Ensemble." The concert featured The Farmstream Rivulettes with improvisational compositions by Paul Cram, Jordan Musto, Trevor Dimoff, and John Carter. The performers included Mark Berry, Tim Bond, Christopher Church, Trevor Dimoff, Dawn Hatfield, Peter MacDonald, Jordan Musto, Don Palmer, Steve Tittle, and Paul Cram.

Programs for Upstream concert season

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 20
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes programs for the following Upstream concerts: October 23, 1995 at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery; January 27, 1996 at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery; March 8, 1996 at Canadian Martyrs Church, Inglis Street, Halifax (with Symphony Nova Scotia); April 12-13, 1996 at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery ("Thunder," in collaboration with Alan Williams, Paul Cram, Mary Vingoe, Stephen Britton Osler, and Dave Reilly); and April 26, 1996 at the Sir James Dunn Theatre ("Unsprung (too)" presented by the Dalhousie Music Department and featuring the Farmstream improvisational/ composition ensemble).

Agenda for an Artistic Directors meeting

MS-5-16, Box 1, Folder 23
File
June 14, 1994

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Correspondence, media releases, and reports from Paul Cram, Artistic Director

MS-5-16, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains records from the 1994-1995 season from Paul Cram, one of the Artistic Directors of the Upstream Music Association. The file includes copies of newspaper clippings with reviews of Upstream concerts; Sandy Moore's Curriculum Vitae; and Paul Cram's signed contract, on behalf of the Upstream Ensemble, for the Atlantic Federation of Musicians.

Cram, Paul

Administrative, funding, and promotional records of the Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 3, Folder 1
File
1994-2004

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains correspondence, a copy of the Upstream Handbook, press releases, concert reviews, and a copy of the Memorandum of Association and By-Laws of Upstream Music Association (adopted September 28, 2000).

Upstream Music Association fundraising and sponsorship reports, advertisements, and correspondence

MS-5-16, Box 5, Folder 5
File
1994-1995

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Records from Illuminations Images in Motion concert

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 14
File
1994, February 27

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes a concert program, stage layout diagram, rehearsal schedule, press releases, and posters. For this concert, Upstream musicians (Bob Bauer, Paul Cram, Sandy Moore, Steve Naylor, Don Palmer, Jeff Reilly, and Steve Tittle) performed with visual artists Leighton Davis, Gordon Laurin, Richard Robertson, and Chris Woods.

Promotional records and correspondence from the concert season