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Barbara Pentland Concerto for violin & small orchestra cmc CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE CENTRE DE MUSIQUE CANADIENNE BARBARA PENTLAND (1912-2000) was born in Winnipeg and began to write music at the age of nine, an activity which was met with strong disapproval from her conventional and socially prominent parents. She nevertheless continued to write surreptitiously during her school years in Montreal and was eventually “allowed” to study composition while at finishing school in Paris. (On her return to Canada, parental indifference and ill health continued to frustrate her progress as a composer until 1936, when she received a fellowship enabling her to continue studies at the Juilliard Graduate School in New York, where her teachers included Frederick Jacobi and Bernard Wagenaar; and at the Berkshire Music Centre, where she worked with Aaron Copland. During the Second World War years Pentland became an instructor at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, but found her professional advances vanishing as male colleagues returned to re-claim their places in the post-war musical life of central Canada. In 1949, she was invited by Harry Adaskin to join the Just- founded music department of the University of British Columbia; when the department was re-organized along American lines by G. Welton Marquis in the later 1950s, she became disenchanted with academic life?choosing to resign, over the principle of academic standards, in 1963. Pentland! earliest works are flavoured by the chromatic tradition of the French late-Romantic school of Franck and D'Indy. In the 1930s she became concerned with avoiding the textures and idioms of 19th century music; at that .. 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