Pentland, Barbara Lally


PENTLAND, Barbara Lally, composer (b 2 Jan 1912, Winnipeg, MB; d 5 Feb 2000, Vancouver). After studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York (1936–39) and with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts, she joined the Toronto Conservatory of Music and taught there from 1943 to 1949. In 1949 she moved to VANCOUVER and taught in the music department at UBC until 1963. Meanwhile she established her reputation as a leading composer of modern music for piano, voice and...

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