File contains the order of carols for Halifax Camerata Singers' performance on CBC Information Morning as part of a special program for raising supplies and funds for the Food Bank. Twenty out of twenty-five members of the choir were in attendance.
File is an audio cassette tape with recordings of CBC radio regarding the opera "Le Rossignol/The Nightingale" that Sheila Piercey (title role) performed in 1957, followed by a recording on April 8, 1994, of Sheila talking about the early days of her music career as well as her personal life.
File is an audio cassette tape with concert recordings of Sheila Piercey and Elvira Gonnella performing the duet 'I Will Choose the Handsome Dark One' from Cosi fan tutte for the concert titled "Valentine Serenade" in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre on February 14, 1982, that aired on CBC Radio.
File contains cello parts for the Paul Cram Orchestra's second Canadian tour in September 2001 in support of the band’s debut CD on the Victo Label, “Campin Out.” The group played Halifax, Ottawa (National Library of Canada), Guelph (Guelph Jazz Festival), Vancouver (Western Front), and Montreal (Sala Rossa). Works included are: "Trouble in Paradise"; "Kafka's Chair"; "Eye of the Storm"; "High Ground"; "Have a Heart"; "Tip of the Iceberg"; various works from "B flat Restaurant"; "March of the Philistines"; various works from "Thunder"; "Urban Desperado"; "Campin' Out"; "Life of Crime"; "Taiwanese Bootleg"; "Zebra Zone"; and "Immortal Coil."
File contains a program for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers, performed as part of the Centre Bras d'Or 10th Annual Festival of the Arts, presented by the University College of Cape Breton. The performance featured Scott MacMillan's "Celtic Mass for the Sea".
File also contains a 2001 certificate of reinstatement and a 1984 letter of declaration that the name "The Kings of Sming" was the sole creative property of Paul Cram.
File contains a program, flyer, and two posters for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers. The file also includes newspaper clippings of reviews of the concert.
File contains a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with the early music ensemble, Rejouissance. The concert included music by Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Caldar, and Telemann, and was at the Motherhouse Chapel at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
File contains annotated drum, trombone and bass parts for "1963," "Revolutions" and "Under the Double Standard"; trumpet part for "Under the Double Standard"; bass part for "Zones"; Tenor and alto sax parts for "Tango Oreo"; clarinet parts for "March of the Philistines" and "Get up and Go"; Bb and concert parts for "Monk on Time"; concert parts for "On the Lam";"Telescope"; "Live it Up"; "Mandarins"; "Lonely Woman"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Round Trip"; "Heads Up"; and "In Mufti." There are also parts for various jigs and for "Public Nuance," by Gregg Simpson.
File contains three annotated copies of the score for Sandy Moore's composition "Clustrix" for piano, electric guitar, harp, bass clarinet, horns, and cymbal.
File contains parts for Paul Cram's "Irons in the Fire," an 11-minute piece for chamber orchestra commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia and premiered by Upstream Ensemble in the fall of 1999. Parts include: guitar; tenor sax; solo electric cello; piano; accordion; alto sax; bass clarinet; drums; electric bass; violin 1; violin 2; viola; cello; contrabass; flute 1; flute 2; oboe 1; oboe 2; clarinet 1; clarinet 2; bassoon 1; bassoon 2; trumpet 1; trumpet 2; French horn 1; French horn 2; timpani; and marimba. The parts were copies for a Halifax Grammar School concert or workshop in 2012/2013.
File includes concert parts for "Ambulatory"; "Lamnations"; "The Problem"; "Groucho Joe"; "Happy Talk"; "Caravan"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Somewhere in Between"; "Wave Surface"; "Volga Boat Race"; "Walk!!!"; and "Campin Out."
File contains programs for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra's 6th subscription concert; The Banff School Festival Ballet; Scotia Festival's Conductors in Concert; Banff School Festival Orchestra, and St. Matthew Passion, sung by The Dalhousie Chorale.
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.
File includes liner notes, recording timing notes, and notes for corrections to the score, all for the recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto. The liner notes were written by Ralph Gustafson, a friend of Villa-Lobos and Ellen Ballon, to whom the concerto is dedicated and who performed the concerto for its recording in 1948. The concerto was written in Rio de Janeiro in 1945. The file includes directions for transcribing Villa-Lobos' piano concerto from the records of its American premiere in Dallas, Texas with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati.
File contains the piccolo and oboe parts for Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The piccolo part was copied by Henrique Martins and the oboe parts were copied by Fran Averede.
File contains two copies of the first and second clarinet parts for Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.
File contains two copies of the first and second French horn parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.
File contains two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.
File contains the first and second flute parts for Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede.
File contains two copies of the first and second trumpet parts and one copy of the third trumpet part for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede.
File contains two copies of the first and second trombone parts and one copy of the third and fourth trombone part for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Fran Averede.
File contains two copies of the third and fourth French Horn parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.
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.
File contains two copies of Paul Cram's composition in 12 sections, which combines common music notation and graphic notation. The composition's commission was funded by a SOCAN grant. The piece is for 10-20 performers on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, percussion, guitar, accordion, tape, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass.
File contains seven copies of scores for Paul Cram's "Convoy HFX," with printed standard music notation and handwritten formations. Six are copies with handwritten annotations; one is an original handwritten score on tissue with the printed notation parts pasted on.
File contains correspondence from Marc Sabat of the Tempest String Quartet (also including Sheila McDonald, Anthony Rapoport, and Katja Linfield) regarding their performances in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The file also includes a copy of the press release for their June 8, 1988 concert, and a copy of the program from the concert.
File contains a letter from Addie MacKay concerning a hymn that she composed with words by her sister, requesting that John Daniel Logan publish it in the Halifax Herald.
File contains a letter from the actress Anna Frery, thanking John Daniel Logan for his critique of her performance in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. The letter is written on letterhead from the Grand Union Hotel Co., Limited.
File contains a letter from the Russian cellist Boris Hambourg concerning Ernest J. Farmer's "Fantasia for cello," the winner of a Canadian Composers competition. The file also includes a program for a series of five concerts given by Hambourg at The Hambourg Conservatory of Music in Toronto (April 14 to May 12, 1925).
File contains one letter and a Christmas card from Christie MacDonald. The letter apologizes for missing John Daniel Logan and his wife when she was in Toronto.
File contains five letters from the Canadian composer Clarence Lucas of the Musical Courier Company concerning his and John Daniel Logan's respective writing, music, and research on Canadian music. Two of the letters thank Logan for sending Lucas poems, and one letter mentions their mutual acquaintance W.O. Forsyth.
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