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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... Perhaps the best account of those years is the long digression in an address on Gilbert and Sullivan . In his recollections , however , MacMillan modestly omits to mention that it was during his internment that he composed a string ...
... perhaps impossible , when struggling with one's own part , to hear the music as a whole . But let us keep on trying and in doing so our own part takes on a new significance . Perhaps some day the truth may be revealed to us — now we see ...
... perhaps a touch of the charlatan ( his programmes frequently featured " Storm Fantasias " and the like ) , and I am afraid he did little to correct my deplorable fingering . However , he was fundamentally musical by nature , and from ...
... perhaps have been better for me , I owe him a deep debt . He set me an excellent example in rhythmical playing ( a thing some organists never learn ) and , having a very keen ear , was usually able to detect faults in my fingering and ...
... perhaps out - dated to some modern ears , it is a colourful work and the orchestra score , graciously lent me by Dr. Vogt , so fascinated me that I made an organ arrangement of one of the interludes . During my days at Knox Church I ...