Jean Coulthard: A Life in Music - Bruneau, William; Duke, David Gordon

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to corners; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; Jean Coulthard was one of Canada's best loved composers of the 20th century. Born in Vancouver to a musical family, Coulthard composed resolutely Canadian music that maintained the values of the great European classical tradition. Through text, music, and images, this book explores her careers as composer, teacher, wife and mother. Coulthard studied with Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, and Bartok, then mentored two generations of composers, all the while creating her own evocative music in every genre. For 92 years she watched her city grow from pioneer beginnings to become a major economic and cultural centre. Jean Coulthard's eight decades of astonishing creativity are remarkable in themselves, but then, she was by any standard an extraordinary Canadian.
Very Good
Soft cover
Ronsdale Press
2005
Vancouver, BC