Canadian music

R. Murray Schafer

by Adams, Stephen

fromCanadian composers

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Murray Schafer is one of Canada's few composers to have achieved an international reputation. His innovative and often controversial work extends beyond music into the areas of education, literary scholarship, journalism, theatre, and graphics, as well as a new field of his own …

Jean Coulthard (b 10 February 1908 in Vancouver, BC, Canada; d 9 March 2000 in Vancouver, BC, Canada) was among a select group of composers who helped shape the classical music environment during the mid-twentieth century. Coulthard worked closely with many orchestras, organizat…