Composers given $60,000 for '67
The Centennial Commission announced yesterday that is has donated $60,000 for 45
to 50 compositions commissioned by 40 leading musical organizations [...]
Keith MacMillan, executive secretary of the Canadian Music Centre, described it
as the largest single project ever undertaken in Canada for the creation of new
musical works. [...] the project has been worked out in detail by Mr. MacMillan
with Nicholas Goldschmidt and other officials of the Program Development
Committee of the Centennial Commission, assisted by musicians familiar with the
potential of their own regions.
[...]
In Ontario, [...] Oskar Morawetz and Papineau-Couture for the Festival Singers
of Toronto;
[...]
