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Music International

The Modern Composer and His World

edited by John Beckwith & Udo Kasemets

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 1978
Category
International
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442651777
    Publish Date
    Dec 1978
    List Price
    $21.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442633452
    Publish Date
    Dec 1978
    List Price
    $24.95

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Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960.

About the authors

John Beckwith’s thirty-eight years with the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, included seven as its dean and five as founding director of its Institute for Canadian Music. Among his compositions are four operas and many orchestral, choral, chamber, and solo works. A frequent contributor to Canadian and foreign music journals, he is the author of Music Papers (1997) and In Search of Alberto Guerrero (WLU Press, 2006).

Since 1972 Brian Cherney has been on the staff of the Faculty of Music (now the Schulich School of Music) at McGill University, where he teaches composition at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His extensive compositional output includes orchestral, choral, and instrumental music. His monograph on the Canadian composer Harry Somers was published in 1975.

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Udo Kasemets (1919-2014) was an Estonian-born Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer.

Udo Kasemets' profile page