Suggested Reading

“Barbara Pentland: A Portrait.” MusiCanada 21 (July/August 1969): 9.

“Barbara Pentland in Dual Role.” CBC Times 16:4 (July 27-August 2, 1963): 4.

Adames, John. “The Art of composition: an interview with Barbara Pentland.” Performing Arts in Canada 20:3
(November 1983):  38-42. 

Beaumont, Rea. Composer Barbara Pentland:  The Music and the Message, Toronto:  Shrinking Planet Productions, 2012.

Beckwith, John.  “Colloquy: Violet Archer, Jean Coulthard, and Barbara Pentland Remembered.” Canadian University Music Review  20:2 (October 2000)): 1-15.

Bruneau, William.  International Alliance of Women in Music Journal 6:3 (2000). 

Chatelin, Ray. “Barbara isn’t getting older, just much better.” The Province (Vancouver) January 22, 1977.

Danielson, Janet H. "Canadian Women Composers in Modernist Terrain." Musiques contemporaines 19:1 (2009): 57.

Dixon, Gail. "String Quartets of Barbara Pentland.” Canadian University Music Review 11:2 (1991): 

Eastman, Sheila, and Timothy McGee.  Barbara Pentland, Toronto: University of Toronto, 1983.

Huse, Peter.  “Barbara Pentland,” The Music Scene 242 (July-August 1968): 9.

Government of British Columbia. “Order of British Columbia, 1993 - Recipient: Barbara Pentland,- Vancouver.” 

Kallmann, Helmut. “The Canadian League of Composers.” Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.  2nd ed. Helmut Kallman and Gilles Potvin, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Maloney, Timothy. “Spotlight on Canadian Repertoire: Barbara Pentland.” Canadian Winds: The Journal of the Canadian Band Association 8:1 (January 2009): 29-30. 

Margles, Pamela.  “The Arduous Journey of Barbara Pentland.”  Music Magazine 6:4 (July/August 1983): 12-15.

McCook, Sheila. “Critics’ slings don’t daunt.” The Ottawa Citizen July 15, 1971.

Pentland, Barbara.  “On Experiment in Music.” Canadian Review of Music and Art 2:7 (1943):  25-27.

Pentland, Barbara. "Interview by Norma Beecroft." Anthology of Canadian Music: Barbara Pentland, Radio Canada International, ACM 25, 1986.

Somers, Harry. "In Conversation with Barbara Pentland.” CBC Radio ‘Music of Toda,y’ April 29, 1966.

Thomson, Hugh. “Pentland Concerto Most Disagreeable.”  Toronto Star, March 13, 1958.

Turner, Robert. “Barbara Pentland,” Canadian Music Journal 2 (Summer 1958).

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