Brian Cherney: 2 books

1 A Self-Made Composer       John Beckwith and Brian Cherney    An outline of his life story is followed by an assessment of his achievement and a brief personality sketch.  Original research, some of it based on the extensive collection of Weinzweig’s papers in Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, provides a rounded portrait of the composer.

Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation. Harry Somers,...