Marcus Adeney

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Marcus Adeney (born July 1, 1900 in London , † March 2, 1998 in Toronto ) was a Canadian cellist, composer, music teacher and writer.

As a child, Adeney took violin lessons from his mother, a music teacher and cousin of the composer Walford Davies . He began his training as a cellist with J. Bartmann in Hamilton and continued it in Toronto with Leo Smith (1915–16) and Boris Hambourg (1919–22), in Detroit with Philip Abbas (1922–24), in London with Arnold Trowell (1924–25), in Vienna with Wilhelm Jeral (1925) and in New York with Percy Such (1925–26).

Between 1919 and 1924 Adeney was a cellist in the theater orchestras of Richmond and Detroit, and in 1922 a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra . Between 1928 and 1949 he was a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , and from 1952 to 1963 of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra . From 1947 to 1950 he directed the Beaches Concert Orchestra in Toronto, and from 1948 to 1958 he was a member of the Solway String Quartet . With Hyman Goodman , Berul Sugarman and Eugene Hudson , he founded the Marcus Adeney String Quartet , with which he performed in the 1950s.

Adeney taught at the Hambourg Conservatory from 1928 to 1951 and at the University of Toronto from 1953 to 1963 . In 1957 he founded the Inverness Music Camp in Muskoka , which he directed until 1961. He taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 1944 to 1985. From 1930 to 1932 he wrote music reviews for Saturday Night magazine . As a composer he emerged with songs and cello pieces.

Adeney was also active as a writer. He wrote literary reviews for the Canadian Forum and The Canadian Bookman , published poetry in American, Canadian and English magazines, and was the editor of the poetry section of the Canadian Review of Music and Art in 1946 . His novel New Babylon , written in the early 1930s , did not appear in print until 1991. In 1994 Cayle Chernin made a video documentary about Adeney called The man who couldn't lose .

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