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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... century we are in danger of weakening or undoing what he spent a lifetime encouraging . Sir Ernest resigned as dean of music at the University in 1952 , left the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1956 , and the Mendelssohn Choir the year ...
... century . But the same modesty that kept him from pointing out his personal accomplishments at Ruhleben required him to skip over the fact that he was an organist of virtuoso ability and an active recitalist . He knew and performed from ...
... century left much to be desired in style and quality . At home I was able to browse through vocal scores of Bach and Handel as well as such things as Mozart's ( spurious ) Twelfth Mass . Performances of the standard oratorios under that ...
... century has witnessed a rise in the quality of music generally , except in the technical skill of performers , I am confident that music in Canadian churches has on the whole greatly improved since my childhood . In Catholic churches ...
... century produced a limited number of works by Mendelssohn , César Franck and Liszt as well as a few choice chorale preludes by Brahms ; Schumann contributed six delightful fugues and Saint - Saëns a number of minor works but there was ...