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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... fact he had almost no experience as an orchestral conductor , he was made conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , a post he held for twenty - five years . Royal titles were abolished in Canada in 1919 , but the Conservative ...
... fact that Roberts and Grier were in their seventies whereas he was only forty - one worried him a little . He feared that he would be burdened for the rest of his life with a title that he recognized was already seen to be anachronistic ...
... fact that he was an organist of virtuoso ability and an active recitalist . He knew and performed from memory virtually all of the organ works of J.S. Bach . The essay about musical events in Toronto in the fall of 1927 provides a ...
... fact that this show proved a real hit was due in no small measure to this chorus and to a few young men who were sometimes positively disturbing in their mastery of female roles . It was not very long before a demand arose for Gilbert ...
... fact that the organ was only a two - manual one taught me to make the most of modest resources also a valuable lesson . This article turns out to be more autobiographical than I had intended but some blame may rest on the Editor who ...