NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ernest MacMillan

Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan (August 18, 1893 – May 6, 1973) was an internationally renouned Canadian orchestrial conductor and composer.

MacMillan was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. A child prodigy, he gave his first organ recital at the age of ten. After studying in London at the Royal College of Organists he studied modern history at the University of Toronto from 1911-1914.

In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

He was a conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra between 1931 and 1956. MacMillan died in Toronto in 1973.

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Categories: People stubs | 1893 births | 1973 deaths | Canadian musicians | Members of the Order of Canada

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MacMillan, Sir Ernest (3192 words)
	MacMillan led the small camp orchestra in concerts and accompaniments for camp musicals (such standards as The Mikado and such originals as Don't Laugh), gaining what he later felt to be valuable technical experience as a conductor (a capacity in which, characteristically, he had no formal training).
	In 1924, at the invitation of Luigi von Kunits, MacMillan had conducted the TSO in his Overture, and in 1931, aware of the illness that was to take his life shortly afterwards, von Kunits suggested that MacMillan succeed him as conductor of the TSO.
	MacMillan also participated in the formation of the Canadian Music Centre and the JMC, and he was president of the former 1959-70 (succeeding Arnold Walter) and of the latter 1961-3.

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