Canada, meet Calixa Lavallée ... did not believe in Canada," said Robert Harris, a music journalist who recently published a book on O Canada, called Song of a Nation: The Untold Story ...

a distinguished university professor emeritus in the department of music at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, links musical passages of O Canada by French-Canadian composer Calixa ...

Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem Robert Harris McClelland & Stewart (2018) Many of us know that Calixa Lavallée composed the music for O Canada; few of us know he ...

Calixa Lavallée was not exactly ... in favour of a merger of the U.S. and Canada. As with O Canada, with TIQ, Lavallée was commissioned to write music for a given text, in this case a libretto ...

Keith Johnston is a music historian ... and composer Calixa Lavallée sat by the river’s edge and heard in the mighty waters the opening strains of what would become O Canada.