{"product_id":"in-search-of-alberto-guerrero-9781554584420","title":"In Search of Alberto Guerrero","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Alberto Guerrero\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full biography of the influential Chilean-Canadian pianist and teacher (1886-1959), describing Guerrero's long career as virtuoso recitalist, chamber music collaborator, concerto soloist, and teacher. Written by composer John Beckwith, who was a student of Guerrero, the book blends research and memoir to piece together the life of a man who once insisted he had no story. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Guerrero was part of the intellectual scene that introduced Chileans to Debussy, Ravel, Cyril Scott, Scriabin, and Schoenberg. He and his brother played an active role in founding the Sociedad Bach in Santiago. In 1918 Guerrero moved to Toronto, making the Hambourg Conservatory, and later the Toronto (now Royal) Conservatory, his new base. He soon became one of Canada's most active pianists. In what was then a novel activity, he played regular radio recitals from the mid-1920s to the early 1950s. He was also deeply engaged with issues in piano pedagogy, and worked with young talents including Canada's much-acclaimed Glenn Gould. But unlike the shadowy role Guerrero is assigned in Gould biographies, here he is given proper credit for his technical and aesthetic influence on the young Gould and on other notable musicians and composers. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Guerrero left few written records, and documentation of his work by others is incomplete and often erroneous. Aiming for a fuller and more accurate account of this remarkably influential and well-loved man, Beckwith's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Alberto Guerrero\u003c\/i\u003e gives an insider's story of the Canadian classical music scene in mid-twentieth-century Toronto, and pays homage to the influential musician William Aide has called an \"unsung progenitor.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeckwith, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e In his sixty-year career, \u003cb\u003eJohn Beckwith\u003c\/b\u003e has drawn attention with performances, broadcasts, and recordings of his more than 150 compositions and with his critical and research writings on personalities and issues of Canadian music past and present. Associated from 1952 to 1990 with the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, he was a witness of, and often a participant in, \"the excitement of new creative directions in theatre, painting, and music\" (as he once put it) of late-twentieth-century Canada. John Beckwith is a member of the Order of Canada and holds honorary doctorates from five universities. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855454671122,"sku":"9781554584420","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a9dcba9-5a76-4afc-96e0-2d9ef0a74e76.jpg?v=1737480817","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-search-of-alberto-guerrero-9781554584420","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}