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Symphony Nova Scotia fonds

  • MS-5-14
  • Fonds
  • 1981-2006

Fonds consists of records created by Symphony Nova Scotia in the course of its regular business activities. The majority of the records were created during the process of concert-planning, including special concerts, annual concerts, tours, and concert series. These records include artist contracts, marketing and development documents, internal memos, and correspondence with artists and sponsors.

Records also consist of internal management records, including personnel records, office management files, and the files of the Board of Directors, Executive Director, and Chief Executive Officer. The financial administration of the Symphony is documented though budgets, statements, ledgers, and tickets sales data.

The fonds also contains concert programs and promotional material such as posters, advertisements, flyers, newsletters, and other publications. The final section of the fonds consists of audiovisual and graphic material. There are audio recordings of performances and interviews of Symphony personnel as well as video recordings of advertisements and performances. The graphic material includes promotional photographs and photographs of the orchestra.

Symphony Nova Scotia

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1993.

Documents include newspaper clippings, ephemera, and programs related to the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, the choir's performance in Washington, D.C. as part of the thirty year anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held in Maryland, and others.

File also contains meeting minutes, committee lists, itineraries, rehearsal guidelines, tour guidelines, and membership lists.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1996.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, and ephemera related to the choir at the East Coast Music Association awards, the release of their record, "He Never Failed Me Yet," "Symphony Explosion" concerts, the Canadian Hockey Awards, the African Heritage Gala, and other events.

File also contains a copy of Rising Tide newspaper.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1997.

Documents include newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, ephemera, and programs related to the East Coast Music Association awards and the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia.

File also contains a copy of Rising Tide newspaper.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1997.

Documents include programs, newspaper clippings, concert schedules, and correspondence related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir's television series, "Hallelujah," the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia's album, "Lord You Brought Me a Mighty Long Way," performances with The Irondale Ensemble Project, Nova Scotia Music Week, and others.

Documents relating to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1998.

Documents include newspaper clippings, ephemera, and programs related to the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, "Celebrating the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.," the East Coast Music Association awards, Neptune Theatre's "The Gospel at Colonus," Dutch Mason's sixtieth birthday, and other performances.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 2001.

Documents include programs, itineraries, and newspaper clippings related to Symphony Nova Scotia, the Martin Luther King tribute concert, the Black Business Summit at Casino Nova Scotia, the annual Nova Scotia Multicultural Festival, African Heritage Month, the South African Polokwane Choral Society, Jeremiah Sparks' farewell party, and the Halifax Regional Municipality tree lighting.

File also includes a Nova Scotia Mass Choir contact list, including names, phone numbers, and addresses of members.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 2002.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs and ephemera relating to the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, Atlantic Jazz Festival, workshops with musical group The Lee Boys, and Marko Simmonds.

File also includes email correspondence between Katherine Carleton, managing director of Symphony Nova Scotia, and Viki Samuels-Stewart, president of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 2002.

Documents include newspaper clippings and programs related to the Down Home Summertime Festival and the Indian River Festival.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents relating to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 2002 and 2003.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, and ephemera related to the choir's tenth anniversary, performances at Hillside Baptist Church in Moncton, New Brunswick, the annual Martin Luther King concert, and the East Coast Music Association awards.

File also includes a copy of Atlantic Canada Frank magazine and a list of all current and past choir members as of January 2003.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 2013 to 2018.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, ephemera, and promotional material related to the annual Martin Luther King concert, the grand opening of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown, the East Coast Music Association awards, African Heritage Month at Halifax Public Libraries, African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, Music Nova Scotia, choir auditions, and other events.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to the African Nova Scotian Association awards show, Bucky Adams, Shauntay Grant, Gary Beals, hip-hop artist TroBiz, Nadira, African Nova Scotian Music Association president Lou Gannon, Jr., Michael Bailey, Archy Beals, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, reporter Sherri Borden Colley, and Walter Borden.

Documents include newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, posters, tickets, and programs to the African Nova Scotian Association awards, Rocky Jones’ memorial service in 2013, Natal Day festivals, the Freedom Festival, Halifax public Libraries’ Lift Every Voice, the productions of "Harlem Duet," "I M Possible," and "The Epistle of Tightrope Time," the production of the television series, "The Book of Negroes," based on the novel by Lawrence Hill, performances by Corey Adams, For the Love of God concerts, and Walter Borden’s appointment to Member of the Order of Canada.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass choir and friends

File contains documents related to Beulah Brinston, Jeri Brown, Tamar Brown, Measha Brueggergosman, Novelee Buchan, Cyndi Cain, Elaine Cain, Tiyaila Cain-Grant, John Chaisson, Bruce Chapman, Joanne Clancy, George Elliott Clarke, Quenta Clyke, Lela Coles, the Colley Family, Floyd Colley, George Boyd's theatrical production of Consecrated Ground, the musical group Conquerors for Christ, and Thelma Coward-Ince.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, posters, and tickets related to East Coast Music Association performances, Canadian Screen Award nominations, Jongleur Group's "Harmony of Souls: A Tribute to Carrie M. Best," Atlantic Film Festival, Consecrated Ground, "A Tribute to Nina Simone" in 2015, and "Vera's Lament: A Jazz Opera by Jeri Brown."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to playwright and poet laureate Shauntay Grant, Elizabeth Guildford, the Hallelujah Praise Choir, Sylvia Hamilton, Wayn Hamilton, Sean Harris, Dave Hillier, bassist Bruce Jacobs, Anne Johnson-McDonald, Sharon Johnson, poet laureate El Jones, Oliver Jones, and Rocky Jones.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to George Jordan, Eileen Joyce, jazz group Ladies in Blue, bassist Steve Lawrence, Owen Lee, Beverly Lewis, Lisa MacDougall, Frank MacKay, Donna MacKenzie, Kim McLeod, Scott MacMillan, Jimmy MacPherson, and Lorraine Klaasen.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the Halifax Blues Festival, the Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Ladies in Blues' annual breast cancer benefit, the Atlantic Film Festival, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, album releases, and Neptune Theatre's productions of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Musical" and "Cats: The Musical."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to Symphony Nova Scotia stage manager Jimmy Tasco, Sue Taylor, Johnny Theodore, Luvina Thomas, musical group Touch of Hope, Up on the Roof, Helen Vaughan, Pat Watson, Angels of Lightning, Gerry White, Cecily Williams, musical group The Williams Sisters, Eastern Front Theatre's production of Whylah Falls, Anne Marie Woods, David Woods, Woody Woods, and Carolann Wright-Parks.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Halifax Comedy Festival, Theatre Art Guild's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," various Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances and concerts, Natal Day festivals, the Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax Public Libraries' African Heritage Month, Eastern Front Theatre's "Whylah Falls," the Prismatic Arts Festival, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's exhibit "Mary Lee Blendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond," and Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia's exhibit "The Secret Codes: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Narrative and Picture Quilts."

Ragas

File contains published sheet music for various ragas, a recording program of Samuel Dolin's work, and a page of handwritten notes by Stephen Pedersen.

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.

Paul Cram fonds

  • MS-5-21
  • Fonds
  • [196-] - 2018
Fonds comprises records created and collected by Paul Cram that document his work as a composer and musician. Record types include primarily music scores and parts — printed and handwritten — composed by Paul Cram for orchestra, small ensemble, jazz quartet and solo instruments. There are also sound recordings (CD and cassette tape) and posters and programs.

Cram, Paul

Sheila Piercey fonds

  • MS-5-20
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2010
Fonds consists of records of Sheila Piercey's opera performance activities and music teaching. Record types include primarily sound recordings of recitals, concerts, auditions, practices, rehearsals, radio broadcasts and textual records, including teaching records and various programs from the Dalhousie Glee and Dramatic Society, Dalhousie Tigers, graduation recitals, noon-hour recitals, festivals, opera workshops, and other performances produced by the Dalhousie Department of Music and a small number of documents Sheila collected when she was a student at Dalhousie University.

Piercey, Sheila Kathleen

McGill and its music : centennial concert : [program]

File contains a program for a centennial concert celebration at McGill University, featuring the McGill Symphony Orchestra and John McKay on piano.
Ellen Ballon is cited in the introduction as one of McGill's notable graduates.

Autographs

Subseries contains autographs of musicians, some of which are on concert programs. These concert programs also frequently contain annotations by J.D. Logan about the music performed. Most of the autographs would have been obtained from the musician directly by John Daniel Logan, with the exception of the autograph of the American pianist and composer Louis Morceau Gottschalk (1829-1869) and that of the French operatic soprano Marie Rôze Mapleson (1846-1926).

Autographs of the Hambourg Trio

File contains an autographed program by the Hambourg Trio (Geza de Kresz, violin; Reginald Stewart, piano; and Boris Hambourg, cello). The program is from a recital at Pythian Castle, Saint Join, New Brunswick. File also contains J.D. Logan's 1909-1910 season pass for the Massey Music Hall in Toronto, Ontario.

Autograph of Fritz Kreisler

File contains an autographed program by the violinist Fritz Kreisler. The program is from a concert he gave at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Marion Andrews Concert Bureau. He was accompanied by Carl Lamson. The file also includes J.D. Logan's ticket stub from the concert.

Programs from the Academy of Music

File contains programs for performances by the Russian pianist Mark Hambourg (October 2, 1911); American soprano Victorina Hayes; Canadian bass baritone Edmund Burke; American tenor Allen McQuhae; and the Pictou County Philharmonic Society, directed by George M. McDonald and assisted by Suzanne Kenyon (February 15, 1924).

Programs from the Halifax Conservatory of Music

File contains programs for the following: a recital by Ernest Leslie Schofield, baritone with Harry Dean, piano (October 6, 1925); "The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of St. Luke," conducted by Harry Dean and presented by the Alumni Society (December 18, 1924); a lecture-recital by George M. McDonald, baritone, and Harry Dean, piano (October 4, 1921); and a pianoforte recital by Reginald Stewart, assisted by Luther Dickens Mott, bass-baritone, and Harry Dean, piano.

Programs from Orpheus Hall

File contains the program and texts from the songs of "The Flower Queen" or "The Coronation of the Rose: A Cantata in Two Acts" by George F. Root, which was presented at Orpheus Hall on September 13 and 14, 1887. The performances featured Miss. B. Lownds, Mr. King Pooley, Mr. C.J. Ross, Mr. J.R. Forbes, Miss. Taylor, Miss. E. Pickford, Miss. H. Gossip, Miss. E. Wier, Miss. B. Salter, Miss. M. Partridge, Miss. Forbes, Miss. G. Taylor, Miss. Ward, Miss. G. Smithers, and Miss. A. Nichols.

Program from St. Mary's Cathedral

File contains two copies of a program for an organ and choral recital at St. Mary's Cathedral by the church organist, Edwin C. Helsby, and choir, directed by Rev. Gerald B. Phelan.

Programs from St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church

File contains two programs for organ recitals given at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church, one by Charles M. Courboin of Antwerp, Belgium and the other by Joseph Bonnet of Paris, France. The file also includes a newspaper clipping of a review for Bonnet's organ recital with quotes from John Daniel Logan.

Canadian music and theatre programs

Subseries contains programs from concerts that John Daniel Logan attended in Canada, excluding Nova Scotia, predominantly at venues in Toronto and Montreal. Many of the programs include annotations by Logan.

Prospectus for the Hambourg Conservatory of Music

File contains a prospectus for the Hambourg Conservatory of Music, directed by Boris Hambourg with visiting director Mark Hambourg. The prospectus includes lesson costs per class for instruments, theory, history, and language. The file also includes John Daniel Logan's member's ticket for the 1912-1913 season of the Hambourg Concert Society (directed by Michael Hambourg, Jan Hambourg, and Boris Hambourg).

In concert

File contains a program and a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with the First Baptist Girls' Choir of Truro, Nova Scotia.

Saint Cecilia concert series : the best of Bach

File contains a program for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers, performed in collaboration with the Cantabile Singers of Truro, members of Symphony Nova Scotia and guest soloists (Lorraine Thompson, Susan MacKay, Nancy Chisling, Douglas Rose, Ray Grant, Sue Doran, Christopher Francis, David Loughead and Gordon Murray). The file also includes a pamphlet for the Saint Cecelia 1992-1993 concert series and a newspaper clipping of a review of the concert.

Canadian choral magic

File contains a program, two copies of a poster, blank door prize forms, and newspaper clippings of advertisements for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers at St. Andrew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert featured sacred and secular choral music.

Celtic mass for the sea

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".

International music and theatre programs

Subseries contains programs from concerts that John Daniel Logan outside of Canada, predominantly at venues in the United States and the United Kingdom. Many of the programs include annotations by Logan.

Programs from St. James's Hall

File contains two programs from a series of "Popular Concerts" on Saturday afternoons, directed by S. Arthur Chappell. Each of the programs includes musical excerpts and analytical remarks. The concerts featured a variety of performers, all conducted by Mr. Benedict. Performers included M.M. Joachim, L. Ries, Straus, Piatti, Miss. Carola, Arabella Goddard, Annie Edmonds, Henry Blagrove, Zerbini, Paque, Edith Wynne, and Clara Schumann. The programs are from the ninth and twelfth seasons at St. James's Hall in London, England.

Research and program notes for composers B

File contains drafts of program notes and research notes pertaining to the following composers: Arthur Benjamin, Arnold Bax, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio, Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, Franz Berwald, Ernst Bloch, Max Bruch, Lennox Berkeley, Georges Bizet, Luigi Boccherini, Alexander Borodin, and Samuel Barber. The file includes the completed program (including Pugh's program notes) for a concert by the resident musicians of the University of New Brunswick (Arlene Nimmons Pach, piano; Joseph Pach, violin; Paul Campbell, violin; Paul Pulford, cello) on January 29, 1989 at Memorial Hall, UNB, presented by the Creative Arts Committee of the Universities of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas. The concert featured Bloch's "Three Nocturnes" for piano, cello, and violin.

Research and program notes pertaining to Bach's organ music

File contains drafts of program notes, research notes, and programs for concerts containing music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The file includes programs for performances at Schade's Restaurant (Fredericton, New Brunswick) and Christ Church Cathedral (Fredericton, organ works performed by Jeffrey Campbell). The file also includes Pugh's ticket to a concert by Quartetto Gelato, presented by the Creative Arts Committee of the Universities of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas (March 27, 1994).

Research and program notes pertaining to Bach

File contains drafts of program notes, research notes, and programs for concerts containing music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The file is organized by type of music, including choral, instrumental, piano, solo violin and cello, concertos, and suites. Most of the program notes were written for concerts in Fredericton, with the exception of some notes from when Pugh was at Pembroke College in Cambridge, England. The file includes programs for performances at Christ Church Cathedral (Fredericton Chamber Players and Chamber Choir, directed by David Adams and Jeffrey Campbell); Wilmot United Church (Fredericton Choral Society and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Douglas Hodgkinson); Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama (used for research, program notes not written by Pugh); and Memorial Hall, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Chamber Orchestra conducted by Harrison Roper). The file also includes longer essays on the Saint Matthew Passion by Pugh.

Program notes for Beethoven's string quartets

File contains program notes and programs for a series of concerts by the Brunswick String Quartet, resident musicians at the University of New Brunswick. The concerts featured Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets and were presented by the Creative Arts Committee of UNB and Saint Thomas University.

Program notes for Beethoven's string quartets

File contains program notes and programs for a series of concerts by the Brunswick String Quartet, resident musicians at the University of New Brunswick. The concerts featured Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets and were presented by the Creative Arts Committee of UNB and Saint Thomas University. The file also includes a program for a piano concert by Valerie Tryon (February 19, 1975) at The Fredericton Playhouse, presented by the Creative Arts Committee, which included Beethoven's Sonata in A major, op. 101.

Program notes pertaining to works by Beethoven

File contains program notes and programs for concerts containing music by Ludwig van Beethoven, including piano trios, piano quartets, piano sonatas, violin sonatas, string quartets, and symphonies. The file includes programs for performances by the Brunswick String Quartet and Vladimir Levtov (piano), which were presented by the University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas University Creative Arts Committee.
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