MacMillan on Music: Essays on MusicDundurn, 1997 - 234 oldal In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous prestige to further the causes of music, MacMillan took every opportunity to admonish Canadians to develop our own composers, to honour our own performers, to educate our children musically, and to offer opportunities for all to hear, learn about, and enjoy great music. This selection of twenty essays and lectures covers the period from 1928 to 1964, and ranges over the gamut of MacMillan's life and interests: the cause of the Canadian composer; music education for adults as well as children; critical reviews; his early years as an organist; internment in a German prison camp during the First World War; Shakespeare and music; church music; and the lighter side in two humorous send-ups of academic lectures on Bach and Wagner. Here is a panorama of music over thirty-five years at mid-century, through the eyes of one of Canada's most brilliant and all-embracing musicians. |
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... CANADA THE CANADA COUNCIL LE CONSEIL DES ARTS FOR THE ARTS SINCE 1957 DEPUIS 1957 01 00 99 98 97 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program . We also acknowledge the support of the Ontario ...
... Canada 77 Musical Relations between Canada and the United States 93 Musical Composition in Canada 102 Some Problems of the Canadian Composer A Case for O Canada 109 126 Comic Interlude 133 Wagnerian Lighter Motives 134 A Lecture on ...
... Canadian Composer " reprinted by permission of the Dalhousie Review . The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation contributed generously to the costs of this publication . Finally , I wish to thank my editor , Doris Cowan , who made ...
... Canada's musical life . From the 1920s until the 1960s , MacMillan was very much the right man in the right place ; he occupied a position of authority and influence unmatched by any musician in Canada before or since . Prodigiously ...
... Canada . ) The young MacMillan also took advantage of his time in Scotland to complete the examinations to become in 1907 an Associate of the Royal College of Organists . When the family returned to Toronto , Ernest took his first ...