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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... less comfortable were the lofts above . However , one accommodates oneself readily enough to physical discomforts and an outlet was found in various activities sports , theatrical performances , music and so on . Underneath one of the ...
... less convincing when playing the part of Eliza in Shaw's Pygmalion . Of course we felt bound to introduce some topical allusions in our performances . The disapproving eye of Gilbert was not on us and we had no copyright restrictions ...
... less so in my young days than now ) it would be hard to surpass acoustically , as many visiting conductors and artists have borne witness , and it holds a high place in the affections of thousands who have heard there the musically ...
... less , but less gied mair Than thrupenny bit . The " thrupenny bit " was at that time the lowest silver coin minted and is said to have been invented to enable a Scot to feel generous . Returning to Canada in May , 1908 , armed with an ...
... less than £ 10,000 for assistance in erecting an organ for the new Coventry Cathedral ; Dr. Healey Willan and our devoted Secretary - Treasurer , Gordon Langlois , were the moving spirits in this effort . More recently another special ...