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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... stage , an idea that certainly had its attractions for him . But when all was said and done , it was Canada that claimed his interests and his devotion , and his rewards were in the development of a musical life in which he was not only ...
... stage when the non- existent curtain was presumably up . I remember a very well - written overture , written by a musician who in his later years became well known in Canada as a brilliant organist , successful in either serious or ...
... stage was a most valuable dressmaker , was less convincing when playing the part of Eliza in Shaw's Pygmalion . Of course we felt bound to introduce some topical allusions in our performances . The disapproving eye of Gilbert was not on ...
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