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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... frequently about his years in the German prison camp at Ruhleben , which , unpleasant though they were , had the salubrious effect of directing the young man's talents to organizing , arranging , conducting , composing , performing ...
... frequently , as in the remarks to the Alumni of University College , University of Toronto . Perhaps the best account of those years is the long digression in an address on Gilbert and Sullivan . In his recollections , however ...
... frequently featured " Storm Fantasias " and the like ) , and I am afraid he did little to correct my deplorable fingering . However , he was fundamentally musical by nature , and from the first I learned to treat the organ as a musical ...
... ) was first violinist of the Hart House Quartet and a distinguished soloist . He frequently gave recitals with his wife , the pianist Norah Drewett ( 1882-1960 ) . it , but because there is far more actual enjoyment 48 MacMillan on Music.
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