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Hector (Willoughby) Charlesworth. Writer, critic, editor, b Hamilton, Ont, 28 Sep 1872, d Toronto 30 Dec 1945. In his teens he studied piano and theory (with Arthur E. Fisher) and submitted poems and articles to Saturday Night using the pseudonym 'Touchstone'. In 1891 he joined the staff of Saturday Night for a year. His interest in music and theatre was reinforced by his marriage in 1897 to the singer and pianist Katherine Ryan (d 1944). He was a reporter 1892-1904 for various Toronto papers and city editor and music critic 1904-10 for the Mail and Empire. He then became assistant managing editor 1910-26 and editor 1926-32 of Saturday Night. Most of his music criticism was published in Saturday Night, English Canada's most influential weekly in the first half of the 20th century. Charlesworth served a controversial term 1932-6 as chairman of the CRBC. His book I'm Telling You (Toronto 1937) details those years. He returned in 1936 to Saturday Night as music critic and also contributed music and drama reviews to the Globe and Mail until his death.
Charlesworth's memoirs, Candid Chronicles (Toronto 1925) and More Candid Chronicles (Toronto 1929), include anecdotes of musical interest. His writings also appeared in Musical Canada, the Conservatory Monthly, the Canadian Journal of Music, the Conservatory Quarterly Review, the Yearbook of Canadian Art, and others. Charlesworth adjudicated many performance and composition competitions.
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