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Healey Willan (1880-1968) played a major role in the development of music in Canada for more than fifty years. F.R.C. Clarke's book is the definitive guide to the life and work of this remarkable man.
Clarke F.R.C. :
F.R.C. Clarke is Professor Emeritus and former director of the School of Music, Queen's University.
David Barber:'Willan's contribution to Canadian music, even though he remained essentially an Englishman in manner and temperament, is enormous and far-reaching. A cursory list of his students (Louis Applebaum, John Beckwith, Robert Fleming, George Maybee, John Weinzweig – and of course F.R.C. Clarke) reads like a Who's Who in Canadian music.'
Arnold Edinborough:
'A warm and sympathetic portrait of the most prolific composer this country has ever known. ... Above all, it is a book which celebrates the attitudes of Willan as a teacher, composer and performer. Every choirmaster should read it, if only for one of the most trenchant pieces of advice any of them could ever have: "Sing words, sing words – any fool can sing notes - it takes brains to sing words."'
John Kraglund:
'An exceptionally well-organized book for serious students and concert-goers'
Choice Magazine:
'Clarke's excellent book provides a stimulus for a wider appreciation of his music.'
William Metcalfe:
'A fine, generous, balanced, not uncritical, important and wise book about a man whose contributions to music in Toronto from his arrival in 1913 until his death in 1968 were, and remain, legendary.'
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