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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... original building had been sold to the Robert Simpson Company and the new church was not opened until January 1909. As the organ was still under construction , I had to make shift for some weeks with a harmonium , which was not easy ...
... original compositions by Torontonians . The Women's Musical Club did wisely in arranging a recital of works by Dr. Healey Willan : two violin sonatas , one in eighteenth - century and one in twentieth - century style , were admirably ...
... original work , and one continues to scan the horizon for signs of a real awakening of serious interest among our young students in this , the most important and fundamental branch of musical activity . 10 Leo Smith ( 1881–1952 ) was a ...
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