Canadian Music and The Arts: Sources of Information

D. Geoffrey Bell

Canadian Music and the Arts: Sources of Information Alberta Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
Tel.(403)428-3372

Association of Canadian Women Composers
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4Y 1J9
Tel.(416)-961-6601; Fax(416)-961-7198

Banff Centre for the Arts
Box 1020
Banff, Alberta
T0L 0C0
Tel.(403)762-6100 Fax (403)762-6444

Canadian Conference of the Arts
189 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6P1
T(613)-238-3561; F(613)-238-4849

Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street
PO Box 1047
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5V8
T(1-800)-263-5588; F(613)-566-4390

Canadian Electroacoustic Community
4001 Berri #202
Montreal, Quebec
H2L 4H2
Email: cec@vax2.concordia.ca
(Contact! published four times yearly)

Canadian League of Composers
Chalmers House
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4Y 1J9
T(416)-964-1364; F(416)-961-7198
Email: composer@vm.epas.utoronto.ca

Canadian Music Centre - Prairie Region
9th Floor, Library Tower
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive, N.W.
Email: jcreid@acs.ucalgary.ca
T(403) 220-7403
Open M-F 8:30-12, 1:30-4:30. Ontario office sells the "Composter Kit" on Canadian composers and their works. Tours of Prairie office available. 12,000 scores; 3,500 recordings, CDs for sale, new release catalogue.

Canadian Music Periodical Index - National Library of Canada

Classical Music News
www.scena.org

Clever Joe's Web Site for Musicians
www.cleverjoe.com

Eckhardt-Gramatte Foundation
54 Harrow Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3M 2Y7
Tel. (204)452-9750

Edmonton Composers' Concert Society
11627 - 46th Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T6H 0A6

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada

INFOMUS Database
4001, Berri #202
Montreal, Quebec.
H2L 4H2

INTERNET Discussion Groups:
canmus-l@ucalgary.ca (Canadian Association of Music Libraries)

National Arts Centre Orchestra

National Film Board of Canada
(borrow films & videos from the CBE Loan Pool and Public Library
Purchase your own copies of NFB videos and products from:
N.F.B. Education, D-5
P.O. Box 6100, Station A
Montreal, Quebec.
H3C 3H5

National Film Board of Canada
Pacific Centre
Suite 300-1045 Howe Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6Z 2B1
T(604)-666-3838; F(604)-666-1569

National Library of Canada
Marketing and Publishing Division
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0N4
T(613)-995-7969; F(613)-991-9871
Email: publications@nlc-bnc.ca
(currently selling a new CD of Sir Ernest MacMillan selected from 78 and 33 rpm recordings from the MacMillan archive.)

The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers 1994
(over 1000 women composers who have made significant contributions to music in the Western Hemisphere)

New Works Calgary
Box 66040
University of Calgary P.O.
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 4T7

Quick Reference Guide to Canadian Composers
by Joyce Oliver, pub. Black Cat Productions
available from Rideau Music, Calgary

Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association

SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers of Canada)
West Coast Division
1201 West Pender Street, 4th Floor
Vancouver, B.C.
V6E 2V2
T(604)-669-5569 F(604)-688-1142

Worth Reading

"Advocating For Music" by Mary Robinson Ramsay, Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming, Alfreda Harrison, Jim Maben, Gail Mead
from Ostinato, September 1993.

"Aesthetic Literacy" by Bernard Schwartz
from Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine, March/April 1993.

"Canadian Folk Songs for the Very Young" by Barbara Cass-Beggs
pub. Douglas & McIntyre, 1992.

"Discovering Mozart" by Kelly Fleming and Dave Klinger
from Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine, March/April 1993.

"Frames of Mind" by Howard Gardner
pub. Basic Books, New York, 1983.

"Karsh Canadians" by Yousef Karsh
pub. University of Toronto Press, 1978.

"The Music of Man" (book and television series)
by Yehudi Menuin and Curtis W. Davis, pub. 1979.

"Play it Again, Please" by Phyllis Schafer and Aline Brault
from Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine, March/April 1993.

"The Value of Performance" by Karol Dabbs
(article once available through the Calgary Board of Education Fine Arts Department)

"You Mean I Have to Teach Art, Too!" by Jann Darwish
from Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine, March/April 1993.

N.B. All typing errors are my own. Many more Canadian cultural organizations can be added to the list...it keeps growing! Please let me know what I have missed!

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