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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Macmillen
2the celebrated Vauxhall of Brussels, achieving instant success. This was followed by tours through Belgium and Germany and two tours of England, where he was enthusiastically received. Lady Palmer, wife of Sir Walter Palmer, M. P., presented him with an eight-thousand-dollar Stradivarius violin. Macmillen's American debut occurred at Carnegie Hall, Dec. 7, 1906, on which occasion he was assisted by the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conducting. This was followed by a tour of ninety-eight concerts, which took him through the east and middle west. In the summer of 1907 he returned to London, where he gave three recitals, assisted by the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Henry T. Wood. His tour of 1907-1908 includes one hundred and sixty concerts through the east, south and middle west in the United States. Tours of Russia, Germany and England have been planned for the next two years. Although only twenty-two years old, Macmillen has played as soloist with many great orchestras of the world, including the Theodore Thomas Orchestra of Chicago.
4* Macpherson, Charles. 1870-
5Composer and teacher. Was born in Edinburgh, where his father was city architect and engineer. In 1879 he entered St. Paul's Cathedral, remaining there until his appointment as choirmaster at St. Clement's, Eastcheap, in 1887. He studied organ with Sir George Martin, and in 1890 entered the Royal Academy of Music, taking the Charles Lucas prize in 1892. He is at present teacher of counterpoint and harmony in this institution, and in 1895 he became suborganist at St. Paul's Cathedral. He wrote nine anthems; an arrangement of the 137th Psalm for orchestra and choir, and other church music; the overture, Cridhe an Ghaidhil, on a Scottish theme; three Gaelic melodies with accompaniment of strings and harp; a suite, Hallowe'en; a Highland suite for orchestra; the glee, There Sits a Bird, which took a prize at the Bristol Orpheus Glee Society in 1893; a quartet in E flat for piano and strings; and other music.
7* Macpherson, Stewart. 1865-
8Musical educator and composer; born in Liverpool, England. He went first to the City of London School, then winning the Sterndale Bennett open scholarship he entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1880 and studied composition under Sir G. A. Macfarren and piano under Walter Macfarren. His record in this school was a brilliant one, for he won the Balfé Scholarship in 1882, and the Charles Lucas medal for composition in 1884, and the Potter Exhibition prize in 1885. On completing his course in 1887 he was made professor of composition and harmony and elected an associate of the institution, being advanced to the rank of Fellow in 1892. In 1885 he became organist of the Immanuel Church of Streatham Common, and from 1885 to 1902 he conducted the Westminster Orchestral Society, an institution which has done much good work in bringing out works by English composers. He also conducted the Streatham Choral Society from 1886 to 1904. In 1898 he became an examiner to the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music, in which position he has visited Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon and South Africa. In 1903 he became professor of composition at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, and was appointed a member of the Board of Musical Studies at the University of London. He is also a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and a member of the Philharmonic Society of London. Among his theoretical works widely known in Great Britain are Practical Harmony, which has been translated into German; Appendix to Practical Harmony; Practical Counterpoint; Three Hundred and Fifty Exercises in Harmony; Counterpoint and Modulation; and Rudiments of Music. In 1907 he was engaged with the publication of Form in Music which it is expected will appear early in 1908. Among his musical compositions may be mentioned the fine mass in D for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra; violin concerto in G minor; ballade for orchestra; nocturne and idyll for orchestra; many songs; piano-pieces; and church services.
10Mader (mä'-dër), Raoul Maria. 1856-
11Hungarian dramatic composer; born at Presburg. He studied law at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1878, then attended the Conservatory from 1879 to 1882, studying composi-
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