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John Beckwith

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.

Books by John Beckwith

In Search of Alberto Guerrero

edited by John Beckwith

Mapping Canada's Music

Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann

by (author) Helmut Kallmann
edited by John Beckwith & Robin Elliott

Unheard Of

Memoirs of a Canadian Composer

edited by John Beckwith

Weinzweig

Essays on His Life and Music

edited by Brian Cherney & John Beckwith

Scripts

Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works

by (author) James Reaney
edited by John Beckwith

John Beckwith

Music Papers: Articles and Talks By a Canadian Composer 1964-1994

by (author) John Beckwith

Musical Canada

Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann

edited by John Beckwith & Frederick Hall

The Modern Composer and His World

edited by John Beckwith & Udo Kasemets