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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... called upon to supply , on a harmonium , the instruments missing in the camp orchestra . 1 In the course of time the theatre was equipped , largely through funds from the British government , with a curtain , electric lighting ...
... called . I must have been about seven and it was not long before I climbed on the bench and tried to make myself familiar with the mysterious names on the stop knobs : Oboe 8 ' , Principal 4 ' , Sw . to Gr . , and so on . The sounds ...
... called " Festival of the Lilies , " a popular spring - time event in which most of the participants were children . A large juvenile chorus under the late A.T. Cringan3 was the main attraction . On each occasion I played a couple of ...
... called on me to play at various academic functions or to give a recital , so that I was able to keep my hand in . On one occasion I had to play for a function in which the Duke of Connaught ( then Governor General ) was the speaker ...
... each season . It is to be 3 The concerts were given in Massey Hall at 5 p.m. From 1923 to 1927 the orchestra was called the New Symphony Orchestra . hoped , also , that his policy of presenting new Man and Music • 47.