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Growing with Canada

The Émigré Tradition in Canadian Music

by (author) Paul Helmer

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2009
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773535817
    Publish Date
    Dec 2009
    List Price
    $55.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773582415
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $49.95

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Based on years of detailed and extensive interviews, and supplemented by a wide range of archival material, Growing with Canada showcases the men and women who came to Canada and the roles they played in developing the country's musical culture. Paul Helmer shows that émigrés were at the centre of the new musical milieu and uses the lively testimony of those involved to weave together the larger story of post-war Canadian music performance, production, and education. By introducing the sounds and techniques of their homelands, émigré artists were able to overcome the dominating British presence in post-secondary music education - vastly expanding the role music played in universities - while pioneering the performance and production of opera in Canada. From British Columbia to Newfoundland, they served as educators, teachers, and administrators as well as outstanding performers, conductors, composers, music historians, radio and television producers, and benefactors.

About the author

Paul Helmer, previously associate professor of musicology, McGill University, is a pianist and author of The Mass of St. James and Le premier et le secont livre de fauvel.

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