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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... writer and critic , musical ambassador and éminence in Canada's musical life . From the 1920s until the 1960s , MacMillan was very much the right man in the right place ; he occupied a position of authority and influence unmatched by ...
... writer Charles G.D. Roberts , to the painter Wyly Grier , and to MacMillan . He was loath to turn down the honour when it was offered , mainly because he saw it not as personal recognition so much as acknowledgement of the growing ...
... writing , and his larger view of music as a universal art . In the essays that centre on Canada he takes up the cause of the composer , but these essays also demonstrate MacMillan the nationalist - · not a narrow stiff - necked patriot ...
... writing the various formal examinations for the degree , and granted it in June 1918. The work was subsequently published by Novello . The essay on the organ tells much about the young MacMillan , and also provides a fine sketch of ...
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