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L to R: Louis Applebaum as a young man; Glenn Morley conducts the orchestra
and choir at the recording of " Fanfare" at the Toronto Centre
for the Arts, July 5 and 6, 2000; conductor Glenn Morley, orchestra, Elmer
Iseler Singers and tenor Richard Margison recording the CD.
Louis Applebaum
Lou Applebaum was one of Canada’s pre-eminent classical composers
of the last half century. He was the original Music Director of the
Stratford Festival, for whom he wrote scores for plays for almost every
season since it was founded in 1953.
In addition to being a major composer, Lou was an important arts administrator/policy
maker. He was Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Council in the
1970s, and was co-chair of the federal Applebaum-Hebert Commission in
the early 1980s – a commission which helped set Canada’s cultural
policy since that time.
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