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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... later . ( Niecks , incidentally , was succeeded as Reid Professor by Donald Francis Tovey , after whose death the post was offered to MacMillan in 1942 ; but by then MacMillan was fully committed to music in Canada . ) The young ...
... later when in an unpublished biographical sketch he titled a chapter “ The Knight Has a Thousand Sighs . " For better or worse , the knighthood officially marked him as the pre - eminent musician in Canada . A Vancouver music teacher ...
... later than Lohengrin ; to hear the Ring des Nibelungen in its own home was an exciting experience . I am afraid that I dozed during part of Das Rheingold , having spent the previous night in the train without sleep . The other portions ...
... later years became well known in Canada as a brilliant organist , successful in either serious or popular music . I refer to the late Quentin MacLean ' who had studied composition with Max Reger and the organ with Karl Stroube , who ...
... Later on we received gifts of costumes for various productions , including some quite stylish gowns contributed by ladies attached to the American Embassy which , until 1917 , had the responsibility of seeing to our safety and ...