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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... German musician who was Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University . Niecks allowed the twelve - year - old boy to attend the University junior classes in history of music , harmony and counterpoint , only to advance him to the ...
... German prison camp during the First World War , and the music of Bach , which he came to know through his virtuosic ability as an organist . The first essays deal in different ways with these three facets of MacMillan's life and ...
... German is very limited . We also heard Der Fliegende Holländer and Parsifal — the last on August first , the day when Germany declared war on Russia . During one of the intermissions we were told of the momentous 1 La Malbaie ( Murray ...
... 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 the lion's costume for Androcles was ...
... German officers against seeing the more seamy side of our life , gave , after his return to England , an almost glowing account of what he had seen . Das Leben in Ruhleben war nicht so schön ! In our presentation of The Gondoliers ...