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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... English , managed to satisfy the soldier that I was not a Russian . Afterwards he told me I was lucky : " Eleven Russian spies , " he said , “ have been shot in Nuremberg today ” . I returned to Bayreuth and reported on what I had ...
... English , were sometimes in French or German and one enterprising New Zealander directed a performance in the Maori tradition at least , we were told it was . Costumes in the early days were most ingenious ; I don't know to this day how ...
... English organist who was at the Sherbourne Street Church from 1897 to 1911. He later moved to the United States where eventually he became music director to the Canadian - born , and highly theatrical , Aimee Semple McPherson . When ...
... English cleric and scholar who published extensive editions of English Renaissance music of the period c.1545- 1640 . * Healey Willan ( 1880-1968 ) emigrated from England to Canada in 1913. As organist , choirmaster and composer in ...
... English Hymnal . I have just been glancing through the programmes of organ recitals printed in the February issue of The Diapason , the official journal not only of the American Guild but also of the Canadian College of Organists . It ...