Keith MacMillan (music producer)

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Keith Campbell MacMillan (born September 23, 1920 in Toronto ; † May 20, 1991 ibid) was a Canadian music producer, publisher and manager.

The son of the composer Ernest MacMillan attended Upper Canada College from 1934 to 1938 and also took private lessons with Boris Berlin (piano), Ettore Mazzoleni (music theory) and David Ouchterlony (organ). He continued his organ training from 1946 to 1949 with Charles Peaker . While studying biology at the University of Toronto, he composed and produced the musical What, no crumpets (1947) and the operetta Saints Alive (1949).

With Douglas Sanderson he founded Hallmark Recordings in 1952 , whose first president he was until 1954 and for which he worked as a producer. At the same time he worked for the CBC radio , for which he produced programs such as CBC Wednesday Night , Folk Song Time (with Edith Fowke ), CBC Concert Hall and Distinguished Artists . From 1961 to 1964 he was also a radio producer for the CBC Symphony Orchestra .

In 1964 he succeeded John Adaskin as director of the Canadian Music Center . In this capacity he devoted himself to the promotion of Canadian music with publications and lectures and was a member of boards and committees, including the Canadian Conference of the Arts , the Canadian Music Educators Association , the Canadian Music Coucil (CMC), the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra .

He was secretary from 1974 to 1976 and from 1976 to 1977 President of the Music Information Centers Commission of the International Association of Music Libraries and 1974–75 President of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries (CAML). In addition to the CMC's catalogs of Canadian compositions, he also published its newsletter (1964–66) and the Musicanada magazine (1967–70). At the University of York he gave the lecture series Man and His Music from 1969-70 and in 1974 Canadian Music . He worked as musical advisor on Edith Fowke's The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs (1973).

In 1977 he became head of the Music Department at the University of Ottawa , where he gave courses in acoustics and Canadian music. In 1978 he was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal . After retiring in 1985, he worked on a biography of his father, which, however, remained unfinished. MacMillan's brother Ross, a chemical engineer, was married to pianist and music educator Gwen Beamish . Of his four children, two embarked on a musical career: Elizabeth MacMillan as a viol player and Kevin MacMillan as a violinist.

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