Ernest Macmillan

MacMillan on Music

Essays by Sir Ernest MacMillan
Herausgeber: Morey, Carl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This selection of 20 essays and lectures covers the period from 1928 to 1964.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781550022858
• ISBN-10: 1550022857
• Artikelnr.: 29843110

Autorenporträt

Sir Ernest MacMillan conducted his first performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1923, the first of some thirty presentations that he gave of the work in Toronto. He became Principal of the Toronto (Royal) Conservatory in 1926, Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto in 1927, conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1931, and conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir in 1942. He conducted throughout Canada as well as in the United States, Australia, and Brazil. He was a founder of the Canadian Music Council, a member of the first Canada Council, President of the Canadian Music Centre, President of CAPAC (the performing rights organization), and President of Jeunesses musicales du Canada. For several years he hosted a radio program on CKEY in Toronto.