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• Title:Jean Coulthard fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Coulthard, Jean, 1908-2000.
  
• Published/Created:1898-1999
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVESWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: UBCA-ARC-1068
    
  • Number of Items:73
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-72
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Coulthard, Jean, 1908-2000.
  Coulthard, Jean Robinson.
  Coulthard, Walter.
  Coulthard family.
  
• Description:7. 11 m of textual records
  263 photographs
  52 sound recordings
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of Coulthard's incoming correspondence, financial records, biographical information, printed material and clippings documenting her involvement in the Canadian and International music communities as advocate, educator and composer. Also included are original manuscripts of Coulthard's compositions as well as published and unpublished sound recordings of performances of her work. In addition, the fonds contains scrapbooks assembled by Coulthard's mother, Jean Robinson Coulthard between 1898 and 1929, family photographs, and a photograph album compiled by her father, Dr. Walter Coulthard, depicting the Rossland area (ca. 1902). Fonds arranged into two sous-fonds: Jean Coulthard sous-fonds and Coulthard family sous-fonds. Jean Coulthard sous-fonds arranged into ten series: Correspondence (1946-1998), Financial and Legal (1948-1998), Biography (1950-1998), Programmes (1943-1995), Publications (1955-1993), Press Clippings (1929-1994), Manuscripts (1945-199?), Sound recordings (1942-1995), Miscellaneous (1898-1995), and Photographs (1894-1975).
  
• Biography/history note:Jean Coulthard was born in Vancouver and began her musical training with her mother Jean Robinson Coulthard at the age of five and by nine was writing her first compositions. In 1928, Coulthard won a scholarship from the Vancouver Women's Music Club enabling her to enrol in the Royal College of Music in London, England and to study under Ralph Vaughan Williams. Upon receiving a Licentiate in Composition from the College (1932), Coulthard returned to Vancouver where she taught music at St. Anthony's College and Queen's Hall College (1932-1938) while continuing to develop her skills as a composer. In 1935, she married Donald Adams, a noted local designer. Coulthard was asked to join the newly created Department of Music at the University of British Columbia in 1947. She remained on staff as a senior instructor and lecturer until her retirement in 1973. Since her retirement, Coulthard has remained active in education, as a faculty member at the Shawnigan Lake Summer School for the Arts (1974-1976), the Victoria Conservatory (1977), the Banff Centre Composers' Workshop (1978-1979) and the Okanagan Music Festival for Composers (1975-1985). Coulthard has composed extensively for orchestras, chamber groups, piano, voice and choir. Well-known compositions include "Cradle Song", "Threnody", "Canadian Fantasy", "Ballade", "A Winter's Tale" and her opera "Return of the Native". Coulthard has acted as an advocate for the Canadian music community as both a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (1951-) and as a member and associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre (1959-). She has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Order of Canada (1978), the Order of British Columbia (1994), and honourary degrees from UBC (1988) and Concordia University (1991), in recognition of her significant contributions to Canadian music. Coulthard died on March 9th, 2000.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:File list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.