Background
McElheran, Brock was born on January 6, 1918 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Robert Benjamin and Irene Beatrice (Brock) master of Civil Engineering.
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For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful advice on coducting subtleties. This latest edition takes into account avant-garde music and new music notation.
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A meteorological officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, McElheran studied at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and served at naval air stations in southern England. During a V-1 attack, he was seriously injured when his rooming house in Greenwich was hit. Taken to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, famous for its pioneering work in plastic surgery, he underwent several operations and months of treatment. Earlier in Canada, McElheran worked in operations rooms in Ottawa and Halifax. His memoir also includes previously untold stories of naval warfare off Canada's east coast. Using the journal that he kept at the time as his primary source, McElheran combines personal experience, anecdote, and historical fact in this account of a tense but exhilarating time. Written for the general reader, the mood varies from riveting drama to delightful humour, and the author's personal experiences are placed within the larger historical context of World War II.
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McElheran, Brock was born on January 6, 1918 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Robert Benjamin and Irene Beatrice (Brock) master of Civil Engineering.
Bachelor, University Toronto, 1939. Bachelor of Music, University Toronto, 1947. Doctor of Music (honorary), State University of New York, 1993.
He wrote the textbook Conducting Techniques for Beginners and Professionals, which is used today in several conducting classes around the world. He also authored Music Reading by Intervals: A Modern Sight-Singing and Ear-Training Method for Singers, Conductors, and Teachers and a book recalling his experiences in World World War II, V-Bombs and Weathermaps. Besides conducting various ensembles at the Crane School of Music, McElheran has also conducted various ensembles around the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Two major activities outside of Potsdam were the Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute, SPCI (c 1970-1984), a three-week summer school held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and conductor of The Elgar Choir in Montreal (c 1972-1980?).
He conducted the orchestra and chorus at the closing ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. He has also had various compositions published.
During his active career he prepared choruses for many of the world"s leading conductors, including Eugene Ormandy, Robert Shaw and Zubin Mehta. He died in Potsdam, New New York
He was well-loved. Recently, Nelly Maude Case, a professor at Crane, wrote a biography on McElheran, Worry Early: The Life of Brock McElheran.
lieutenant is available from the State University of New York Potsdam college store website. McElheran"s other books are available on Amazon.com.
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( A meteorological officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Mc...)
Served to lieutenant Royal Canada Navy, 1942-1945. Member Music Educators National Conference, Music Teachers National Association, New York State Music Teachers Association (Citation 1987), New York State Society Musicians and Artists, American Choral Directors Association, Phi Mu Alpha (Orpheus award 1986).
Married Jane G. Munro, December 29, 1942.