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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... usually substantial . The first production was Shaw's Androcles and the Lion . There was no curtain but a number of empty round cans were cut open on one side , provided with candles and worked on a swivel that was operated so that the ...
... usually given in English , were sometimes in French or German and one enterprising New Zealander directed a performance in the Maori tradition at least , we were told it was . Costumes in the early days were most ingenious ; I don't ...
... usually able to detect faults in my fingering and pedalling with uncanny precision . When in doubt he would put his hand over my fingers or even dive down to feel what my feet were doing . I often had the privilege of guiding him to a ...
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