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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
File includes biographies for Barry Guy and Maya Homburger; correspondence from Guy and Homburger; the transcript of an interview with Guy for a documentary by Jeff Reilly and Alan Guettel; and copies of news articles on Guy and Homburger.
Item is a copy of Steve Tittle's "Mediterranean Eyes," originally commissioned in 1983 by the Atlantic Canada Trio (flute, piano, and double bass) and revised in 1996 for small orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, and strings).
File includes copies of grant applications to the Canada Arts Council and SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) for the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons.
Item is the first eight measures of the score for Fred Frith's composition "Traffic Continues: Shadow of a Tree on Sand" for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, trumpet, baritone saxophone, piano, percussion, violin, guitar, and double bass.
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.
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.
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."
Item is an annotated copy of Jamieson's composition, which is in five sections. Each section has textual instructions for individual instruments with four musical parts notated at the bottom: melody, accompaniment, B-flat trumpet line, and bass line.
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.
File also contains meeting notes, copies of news articles and press releases, budgets, and responsibilities of those involved in the Festival's organization.
File contains a promotional photograph of the ensemble with their instruments and a promotional statement about the group for the press. Both were sent to Christopher Both, a cellist in the ensemble. The photograph was taken by George Georgakakos.
File contains a programs from the Upstream Ensemble's 1997-1998 concert season: October 26, 1997 (Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, with Conrado del Rosario); November 23, 1997 (Saint Mary's Art University Art Gallery, with Michiyo Yagi and Akikazu Nakamura); January 24, 1998 (Holiday Inn, Halifax, with Tom Walsh and Steve Tittle); March 6, 1998 (Denton Hall, Acadia University); March 7, 1998 (Neptune du Maurier Theatre, Halifax); and March 30, 1998 (Dartmouth & CP Allen High Schools).
Item is the instructions for Norman Adams' improvisational composition, "6 of one," for performance by Adams (cello); Suzanne Lemieux (oboe); Jeff Reilly (bass clarinet and clarinet); and Paul Cram (tenor saxophone and clarinet). The composition has an approximate tonality of D and textual instructions regarding rhythm, entrances, intervallic relationships of parts, dynamics, range, and timbre.
File contains parts for Bauer's improvisational composition in five sections: Sitar Drone Atmosphere; Falling - Filling the Cup; The Streets of Calcutta; Ascension - Reaching Beyond Life; and Resolution. The composition is for violin, bassoon, piano, guitar, and oboe and lacks a clear tonal centre and meter.The last section is a canon between the violin and bassoon.
File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Kickers," in five parts. Each of the five parts is a short phrase. The composition was funded by SOCAN.
File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Les Mouton à L'Abbatoir," an atonal composition funded by SOCAN, which consists of a monophonic melody.
File contains Upstream Music Association's application and correspondence with the Canada Council regarding funding to commission a new work from Tom Walsh.
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