CAPAC Musical Portraits

Series launched in 1976 to assist Canadian composers. Issued as 7" 33 ⅓ Extended Play records (later cassettes) containing short excerpts from a composer's works and a brief biography. They were mainly distributed free to schools, libraries and radio stations. Blue covers are in English Purple covers are French The first installments were released in 1976 and the second were released in 1977. Series 3 was released around 1980/1981 Series 4 was released around 1983 Series 5 was released around 1984/85 Series 6 was only issued on cassettes.