Geoffrey Waddington

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Geoffrey Waddington (September 23, 1904, Leicester, England - January 3, 1966, Toronto) was a Canadian conductor and violinist.

Waddington was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he began playing violin as a child; he was conducting by the time he was twelve years old. In 1922, he began working in radio and also took a position at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1947 he began conducting for the CBC, eventually becoming its music director. [1] In 1952 he founded the CBC Symphony Orchestra, which he directed until it folded in 1964, by which time it was the last surviving network-broadcasting symphonic orchestra in North America. [2] His position at CBC made him influential in identifying and popularizing Canadian classical musicians of distinction, and he commissioned several works from Canadian composers. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Notes and News". Tempo (31): 1–5. 1954. ISSN   0040-2982.
  2. ↑ Beckwith, John (2012-04-20). Unheard Of: Memoirs of a Canadian Composer. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 126. ISBN   978-1-55458-398-0.
  3. ↑ "Geoffrey Waddington". The Canadian Encyclopedia.


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