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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Essays on Music Sir Ernest MacMillan Carl Morey. This page intentionally left blank Introduction E rnest MacMillan lived at least nine musical lives.
Essays on Music Sir Ernest MacMillan Carl Morey. Introduction E rnest MacMillan lived at least nine musical lives , several of them simultaneously : he was a choral and orchestral conductor , composer , church musician , virtuoso ...
... least intimidated by the extraordinary success that Deems Taylor's new opera had enjoyed in the United States . Among MacMillan's personal successes were the many performances of Messiah that he conducted with the Toronto Mendelssohn ...
... least , we were told it was . Costumes in the early days were most ingenious ; I don't know to this day how the lion's costume for Androcles was constructed . Later on we received gifts of costumes for various productions , including ...
... least interesting feature of which was the production of Deems Taylor's much - discussed opera , The King's Henchman . ' As a The King's Henchman was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Company and premiered there February 17 , 1927 ...