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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... speaking countries , investigations into the music of the great Elizabethans by Canon Fellowes ' and others have led people to look down on weak imitations of Mendelssohn by providing them with models of a vastly superior type . This ...
... speaking and hated it ; probably my audiences , too , were disappointed that I did not paint a more lurid picture . However , once again the experience proved useful , for in subsequent years I have had to do a good deal of public speaking ...
... speaking organists in the College . For a time a number co - operated and gave fine recitals at Montreal conventions . However in the end our attempts proved abortive ; perhaps the former name " Guild , " although it had long since been ...
... speak : it served at least to demonstrate that Toronto can provide an exceptional array of pianistic ability . I must not , however , overlook some interesting performances of original compositions by Torontonians . The Women's Musical ...
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