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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... audience , but repeatedly he urged the case for the Canadian composer , the need to recognize Canadian artists at home , and the fundamental need to provide educational resources at every level . Positive in his endorsement of what had ...
... audience , and attendances were usually substantial . The first production was Shaw's Androcles and the Lion . There was no curtain but a number of empty round cans were cut open on one side , provided with candles and worked on a ...
... audience of four thousand " - which is more than Massey Hall ever held , even before part of the first balcony was converted into a smoking - room . Moreover , I did not give a recital ; I cannot imagine that anyone would willingly give ...
... audiences I have ever seen at a concert . Fortunately I had foreseen a deficit and extracted promises from three of our wealthy and public - spirited citizens Sir Edmund Walker , Sir Edmund Osler and Mr. ( afterwards Sir ) Joseph ...
... audiences , too , were disappointed that I did not paint a more lurid picture . However , once again the experience proved useful , for in subsequent years I have had to do a good deal of public speaking and face my audience instead of ...