Margaret Miller Brown

Margaret Miller Brown was born on April 22, 1903, in Owen Sound, Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Hers was a musical family. She studied piano under Frank Welsman and Mona Bates in Toronto, and under Ernest Hutcheson in New York. ==Musical career==

Brown made her professional debut at the Toronto Conservatory of Music on March 1, 1927. and by radio station CKRC. She performed on concert tours into the 1950s in Canada and, in 1951, in Europe. A 1955 article said she was called "a thorough master of her instrument". ==Teaching career==

Brown taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (later renamed The Royal Conservatory of Music) from 1924 to 1969. and "extremely rigid in her musical viewpoint". This approach did not satisfy the young Arpin's desire to explore and experiment with a variety of styles besides classical music. In a 1953 interview with the Regina Leader-Post, she noted that between 30,000 and 35,000 student examinations—the majority of them in piano—were administered throughout the country annually. Adjusted by grade level, the piano examinations covered a range of categories, including "general style, rhythm, quality and variety of tone, technical ability and accuracy", as well as auditory and visual tests. the Lambton County Music Festival in 1959, and summer courses for the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association in Stratford and Peterborough, Ontario, in 1962. ==Personal life==

Brown died in Owen Sound on February 15, 1970. ==Works==

• Piano Hand Book (1962) (with Mary MacKinnon Shore){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ychAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1252|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1962: July-December ==References==