Growing with Canada: The ?migr? Tradition in Canadian Music

By Paul Helmer

During the second half of the twentieth century, musical life in Canada flourished as never before, due in large measure to a generation of European emigres who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music, teaching, playing, and composing 'in the key of Canada'. Based on years of detailed and extensive interviews with some seventy people, and supplemented by a wide range of archival material, Growing with Canada reveals how these men and women came to Canada and the roles they played in developing musical culture here, weaving the larger story of post-war Canadian music performance, production, and education around their testimony.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773535810
• ISBN13: 9780773535817
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"