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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... 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 the first I learned to treat the organ as ...
... programmes of organ recitals printed in the February issue of The Diapason , the official journal not only of the American Guild but also of the Canadian College of Organists . It is interesting to compare these programmes with those of ...
... programmes have greatly improved on those of my young days . Unfortunately this improvement has not been accompanied by any notable increase in popularity . Quite possibly the reverse is the case , for the organist has now to compete ...
... programme of works for organ and orchestra to one of the smallest audiences I have ever seen at a concert . Fortunately I had foreseen a deficit and extracted promises from three of our wealthy and public - spirited citizens Sir Edmund ...
... week . I buckled to and was soon giving numerous recitals ( including many Bach programmes ) in Toronto and elsewhere . It was flattering to be selected as the first resident Canadian to play to the 42 MacMillan on Music.