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No one can say with certainty who the first Canadian composer may have been. What is beyond doubt is the explosion of composition in the years following the Second World War. A generation of pioneering professional composers firmly established Canada's place on the world's musical map. Centrediscs’ Canadian Composers Portraits series of recordings documents the emergence of a generation of pioneering professional composers who firmly established Canada’s place on the world’s musical map. Each release in this retrospective of the last fifty years is dedicated to a single composer and uniquely combines full-length documentaries on the composers’ lives and music a selection of their most important works. For one week, take 20% off the Canadian Composers Portraits series.
*Offer available from April 21 to May 31, 2010 only.
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