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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... interests and his devotion , and his rewards were in the development of a musical life in which he was not only a prime mover but a principal player . Ernest MacMillan was born August 18 , 1893 , in Mimico , Ontario , a town just west ...
... in Toronto in the fall of 1927 provides a glimpse of MacMillan's interest in music and performances that were outside the popular concert life . In the period under review , it is significant that he has 17 Man and Music.
... interest some of the French - speaking organists in the College . For a time a number co - operated and gave fine recitals at Montreal conventions . However in the end our attempts proved abortive ; perhaps the former name " Guild ...
... interest and was proud when , two years ago , I was made an Honorary Life Member . This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the College ; its first woman President , Muriel Gidley Stafford , and her energetic ...
... interest , though one is reminded at times that the composer , as critic of the New York World , must have heard many , many , operas , and does not always find it easy to forget them . The libretto of Edna St. Vincent Millay purports ...