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James McDonald Gayfer (26 March 1916 – 7 April 1997) was a Canadian bandmaster, clarinetist, composer, conductor, organist, military officer, and music educator. His compositional output encompasses several orchestral works, including two symphonies, numerous works for band and solo piano, a modest amount of chamber music, and several songs, hymns, and choral works. In 1944 his string quartet won the CPRS award and in 1947 his Six Translations from the Chinese for tenor and small orchestra won the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada competition. In 1953, he was appointed to the post of Director of Music of the Band of the Canadian Guards, serving until 1961. From then on, he served as a musical training officers of the Canadian Forces School of Music. In 1960 he wrote T

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  • James McDonald Gayfer (* 26. März 1916 in Toronto; † 7. April 1997 in Lindsay/Ontario) war ein kanadischer Militärkapellmeister, Klarinettist, Organist und Chorleiter, Komponist und Musikpädagoge. Gayfer war zwischen 1929 und 1941 Boy Scout, Kadett und schließlich Mitglied des Toronto Scottish Regiment Militia. Er hatte in dieser Zeit Klavierunterricht bei und Reginald Godden und Orgelunterricht bei Maitland Farmer. Von 1942 bis 1967 war er in der kanadischen Armee Klarinettist (Royal Canadian Signals Corps, 1942–45 in Europa), Militärkapellmeister und Musikinspektor (1947–51) Musikdirektor in Ontario, Korea und Kanada (1954–61) und schließlich Ausbildungsoffizier an der Canadian Forces School of Music (1961–68). Er verließ die Armee im Rang eines Majors. Anfang der 1940er Jahre studierte Gayfer an der University of Toronto bei Ettore Mazzoleni (Orchestration), und . 1942 lernte er Ralph Vaughan Williams kennen, mit dem ihn fortan eine Freundschaft verband. Von 1945 bis 1947 studierte er an der Royal Military School of Music in London. Neben seinen musaikalischen Aktivitäten bei der Armee wirkte er als Organist und Chorleiter verschiedener Kirchen in Ontario, Dirigent des Harmony Symphony Orchestra Toronto (1949–54), Opern- und Operettendirigent in Victoria (1962–66), Gastdirigent des Vicoria Symphony Orchestra (1962–64) und Leiter der Kitchener Musical Society Band (1971–72). Nach seinem Ausscheiden aus der Armee unterrichtete Gayfer an der Southwood Secondary School in Galt (wo er 1967 den Galt Community Choir and Orchestra gründete und bis 1970 leitete) an der Champlain High School in Pembroke und von 1972 bis 1974 an der Dalhousie University. 1978 gründete er die Petawawa Legion Community Band. Außerdem war er Kirchenorganist in Petawawa und Lindsay. Gayfer komponierte u. a. zwei Sinfonien und weitere Orchesterwerke (Canadian Landscape, 1963, Yukon Summer 1985), ein Streichquartett (1944), Six Translations from the Chinese für Tenor und Orchester, eine Suite für Holzbläserquintett (1947) ein Saxophone Concertante für fünf Saxophone (1972), Werke für Militärorchester (The Wells of Marah, 1957, The Canadian Infantryman, 1960, The St. John Ambulance Canadian Centennial March, 1982), Klavierstücke, Lieder, Hymnen und Chorwerke. Die Mehrzahl seiner publizierten Kompositionen erschien bei Boosey & Hawkes. (de)
  • James McDonald Gayfer (26 March 1916 – 7 April 1997) was a Canadian bandmaster, clarinetist, composer, conductor, organist, military officer, and music educator. His compositional output encompasses several orchestral works, including two symphonies, numerous works for band and solo piano, a modest amount of chamber music, and several songs, hymns, and choral works. In 1944 his string quartet won the CPRS award and in 1947 his Six Translations from the Chinese for tenor and small orchestra won the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada competition. In 1953, he was appointed to the post of Director of Music of the Band of the Canadian Guards, serving until 1961. From then on, he served as a musical training officers of the Canadian Forces School of Music. In 1960 he wrote The Canadian Infantryman, the official march past of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. Although Gayfer's works remain unpublished, some of them have been recorded by a number of artists, including Howard Cable, David Mills, and the . The Band of the Royal 22e Régiment continues to perform his works with some frequency. In 1983 he was awarded the Service Medal of the Order of St John. (en)
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  • James McDonald Gayfer (* 26. März 1916 in Toronto; † 7. April 1997 in Lindsay/Ontario) war ein kanadischer Militärkapellmeister, Klarinettist, Organist und Chorleiter, Komponist und Musikpädagoge. Gayfer war zwischen 1929 und 1941 Boy Scout, Kadett und schließlich Mitglied des Toronto Scottish Regiment Militia. Er hatte in dieser Zeit Klavierunterricht bei und Reginald Godden und Orgelunterricht bei Maitland Farmer. Von 1942 bis 1967 war er in der kanadischen Armee Klarinettist (Royal Canadian Signals Corps, 1942–45 in Europa), Militärkapellmeister und Musikinspektor (1947–51) Musikdirektor in Ontario, Korea und Kanada (1954–61) und schließlich Ausbildungsoffizier an der Canadian Forces School of Music (1961–68). Er verließ die Armee im Rang eines Majors. (de)
  • James McDonald Gayfer (26 March 1916 – 7 April 1997) was a Canadian bandmaster, clarinetist, composer, conductor, organist, military officer, and music educator. His compositional output encompasses several orchestral works, including two symphonies, numerous works for band and solo piano, a modest amount of chamber music, and several songs, hymns, and choral works. In 1944 his string quartet won the CPRS award and in 1947 his Six Translations from the Chinese for tenor and small orchestra won the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada competition. In 1953, he was appointed to the post of Director of Music of the Band of the Canadian Guards, serving until 1961. From then on, he served as a musical training officers of the Canadian Forces School of Music. In 1960 he wrote T (en)
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