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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... given to Frederick Banting , one of the discoverers of insulin , and Bennett thought that there should be awards in the arts as well . They went to the writer Charles G.D. Roberts , to the painter Wyly Grier , and to MacMillan . He was ...
... given up their attempt to explain life in purely materialistic terms . Mathematical probabilities , I am told , are overwhelmingly against the accidental production of even primitive forms of life ; the appearance of a Shakespeare , an ...
... given in English , were sometimes in French or German and one enterprising New Zealander directed a performance in the Maori tradition at least , we were told it was . Costumes in the early days were most ingenious ; I don't know to ...
... given under its auspices in 1911. Dr. Ham also directed the " National Chorus " which included some of his boys and gave fine concerts , though it never reached the standards of A. S. Vogt's Mendelssohn . Vogt himself was an organist ...
... given us a more satisfying evening . To sit down at the piano , as did Mr. Gabrilowitsch , after a strenuous hour's conducting , and give a masterly performance of the second Rachmaninoff concerto , was a most unusual achievement . Mr ...