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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... become a virtuoso , and which is the subject of one of the essays in this collection . When Alexander MacMillan's obligations took the family to Scotland in 1905-08 , Ernest asked his father to arrange an interview 9 Introduction.
... become in 1907 an Associate of the Royal College of Organists . When the family returned to Toronto , Ernest took his first church position at the age of fifteen at Knox Presbyterian Church . In 1911 he entered the University of Toronto ...
... becoming more and more rare . References to his life in Ruhleben prison camp turn up frequently , as in the remarks to the Alumni of University College , University of Toronto . Perhaps the best account of those years is the long ...
... become organist and choirmaster . In the early twenties the Canadian branch of the American Guild of Organists decided to throw in its lot with the Canadian College and to cease functioning as a separate body . For a time this move ...
... from Ottawa in 1927 to become concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra . He composed a few instrumental and choral pieces , but was primarily a performer . 12 citizens . A group of songs by Mr. Leo Man and Music 49.