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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... orchestral conductor , composer , church musician , virtuoso organist , educator , administrator , writer and critic , musical ambassador and éminence in Canada's musical life . From the 1920s until the 1960s , MacMillan was very much ...
... orchestral conductor , he was made conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , a post he held for twenty - five years . Royal titles were abolished in Canada in 1919 , but the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett briefly allowed ...
... were some music schools and fine choral societies but no orchestras or chamber ensembles . In Toronto and Montréal there were some musicians of ability and even of distinction but the range of their activity was 11 Introduction.
... Orchestra's Christmas Box concerts . And finally there are three lectures that suggest why Edinburgh University thought of him to be Reid Professor . They are not scholarly in the conventional academic way , but they show a grasp — of ...
... Orchestra in 1956 , and the Mendelssohn Choir the year following . By the end of the 1960s he had completely retired from public life , and illness confined him to his home . A stroke in 1971 incapacitated him , and he died May 6 , 1973 ...