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Extractions: Reference Desk Encyclopedia Grainger, Percy Aldridge u r) [ key , Australian-American pianist and composer. A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914) in the United States after establishing an international reputation as a pianist and composer. His interest in folk music is exemplified in his many settings of English folk melodies. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Atlas ... Encyclopedia Click Here! Click Here! 24 x 7 Tutor Availability Unlimited Online Tutoring 1-on-1 Tutoring Explore Statistics Answers Chemistry Tutoring Contact Us Advertise with Fact Monster ... Privacy
Music Division Archival Guide -- GRAINGER, PERCY, 1882-1961 Percy Grainger fonds. 1896-1961. - 24 cm of textual records. - 1 photograph. Biographical sketch Composer, pianist, conductor and publisher born in Australia, Percy Grainger http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/4/7/m15-355-e.html
Extractions: Composer, pianist, conductor and publisher born in Australia, Percy Grainger moved to the United States in 1914, teaching piano at Chicago Musical College (1919-28). From 1932 to 1933 he was chairman of the music department at New York University. He was guest artist with the Schubert Choir in 1933 and 1937, and also one of the first guest artists with the Musical Art Club, of which he was honourary president until his death. Scope and content The fonds consists of records pertaining to the musical activities of Percy Grainger: concert programmes; press clippings; catalogues of works and recordings; publicity flyers; syllabus; photograph postcard of the Flonzaley Quartet. Immediate source of acquisition: acquired from the Percy Grainger Library Society in 1964. Restrictions: none.
Extractions: in All Albums Biographies Reviews Classical Music Home The Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance. Nevertheless he wrote a number of works that continue to give considerable pleasure, as do some of the remarkable arrangements that he devised. He became a friend of Grieg and of Delius and took a strong interest in the active collection of folk-songs. He gave particular attention to the creation of music not bound by the traditional restraints of form and harmony. In 1918 he became an American citizen. Instrumental Music Grainger's original instrumental music includes the delightful Handel in the Strand, intended for piano trio, piano quartet or string orchestra, and Mock Morris, for either string sextet or violin and piano, or again in arrangements for string or full orchestra. Harvest Hymn appears in various chamber or orchestral arrangements, while Walking Tune remains in its original wind quintet form. Folk-song arrangements for various groups of instruments, sometimes idiosyncratically described as with elastic scoring, include Early One Morning, Green Bushes, Molly on the Shore, Ye Banks and Braes and Shepherd's Hey. Some of these were also arranged for large wind ensemble. Vocal Music Grainger wrote some original songs and choral music as well as solo and choral arrangements of folk-songs. These include the Irish Tune from County Derry, also arranged for wind band, Brigg Fair for tenor and chorus and The Men of Harlech for double chorus and drums.
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Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Previous (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Next (Pericles) Percy Grainger (Photo from the collection of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus) Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian -born pianist , composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert band. Grainger remains controversial on two accounts: firstly, Grainger was an enthusiastic sado-masochist; secondly, he was a cheerful believer in the racial superiority of blond-haired and blue-eyed northern Europeans. This musical curiosity manifested itself in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might not otherwise be well known. By utilizing the music of cultures other than his own, Grainger demonstrated an openness and admiration of music of "the other" and in so doing created conditions for greater understanding and respect among societies that might not easily be understood or appreciated. This musical cross-fertilization would become a hallmark of much of his professional life. Footnotes ... Credits Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria
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Extractions: QUESTIONS I have a question regarding Grainger that I'm hoping someone can answer. Grainger championed Cyril Scott's Op.66 Piano Sonata for several decades, in concerts from about 1910 to the 1950s. I have not found any reference to the existence of a recording or a tape of Grainger playing this sonata. Does anyone know if such a tape (private or otherwise) might exist? He was concertizing with it in the 1950s, when reel-to-reel tape recorders were around. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has such a tape. I would be very interested in hearing his rendition, since I am releasing my own recording of the work, which has been influenced by Grainger's profusely annotated working copy of it in the Grainger Museum. Many thanks Leslie De'Ath 37 Chisholm Street Cambridge Percy Grainger was born in Australia on July 8th, 1882. He studied in Frankfurt before beginning a successful career as a concert pianist in England at the turn of the century. His first compositions were experimental in nature, culminating with Hill Song I in 1902. He subsequently modified his style in the popular British Folk-Music Settings and the Room-Music Tit- Bits.
Percy Grainger Society The Percy Grainger Society was founded in June 1978 in London. It has of the order of 500 members worldwide. Membership is open to all by payment of an annual subscription, and http://www.bardic-music.com/grainger.htm
Extractions: T he P ercy G rainger S ociety Forthcoming Concerts/Events The Percy Grainger Society was founded in June 1978 in London. It has of the order of 500 members world-wide. Membership is open to all by payment of an annual subscription, and for this members receive two journals a year and the newsletter Random Round which keeps them informed of international activities in performance and scholarship. Contributors to the Grainger Society Journal Bardic Edition in association with the Grainger Society and Estate. A sound archive is also maintained including a number of rare recordings and performances made by the composer together with an extensive collection of CD albums, cassettes and LP albums of modern performances by others. The Society is active in encouraging and organising recordings of Graingers compositions as well as assisting with programme building for concerts and other Grainger activities in general. QUESTIONS I have a question regarding Grainger that I'm hoping someone can answer. Grainger championed Cyril Scott's Op.66 Piano Sonata for several decades, in concerts from about 1910 to the 1950s. I have not found any reference to the existence of a recording or a tape of Grainger playing this sonata. Does anyone know if such a tape (private or otherwise) might exist? He was concertizing with it in the 1950s, when reel-to-reel tape recorders were around. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has such a tape. I would be very interested in hearing his rendition, since I am releasing my own recording of the work, which has been influenced by Grainger's profusely annotated working copy of it in the Grainger Museum.
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Grainger, Percy (Harper's Magazine) October 2010. AMERICAN ELECTRA Feminism’s Ritual Matricide By Susan Faludi. THIRTY DAYS AS A CUBAN Pinching Pesos and Dropping Pounds in Havana By Patrick Symmes http://harpers.org/subjects/PercyGrainger
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Extractions: Links: University Homepage About the University Students Research Community News Events Faculties A-Z Directory Library Search: Grainger Home George Percy Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria. His father, John H. Grainger , was a well-known architect whose designs included the Princes Bridge in Melbourne. Quite precocious, Percy made his first concert tour when he was twelve. Soon afterwards, he went to Germany with his mother Rose to further his training as a pianist and composer. Between 1901 and 1914, Percy and his mother lived in London where his talents flourished. During this time, Colonial Song and Mock Morris were published. In these years he befriended the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg, whose love of national music inspired Percy to look closely at English folk music. With the aid of a phonograph, Percy collected songs from folk-singers and made many famous arrangements from these. His friendships with Scandinavian and English musical figures (Herman Sandby, Delius, Cyril Scott , Balfour Gardiner) developed during this period.
Extractions: Enter your username and password Forgotten your username or password? There are no items in your shopping cart. Login Sign up to receive our e-Newsletter View Cart Grainger was a musician of unusual breadth of vision, a composer of a broad spectrum of works from the highly experimental to the overtly popular Random Audio Sample: Immovable do (solo piano) by Percy Grainger, from the CD Works for solo piano 3 Percy Aldridge Grainger was born at Brighton, near Melbourne, in 1882 and from an early age showed a precocious musical talent, making his first public appearance at the age of ten. Following studies in Germany, he began a concert career in England and toured South Africa and Australia. In 1906 he met Grieg, who became enthusiastic about Grainger's talent. He settled in the USA, giving a sensational debut in New York in 1915 and gave summer sessions in Chicago from 1919 to 1931. At his marriage to Ella Viola Strom in 1928, a spectacular affair staged at the Hollywood Bowl, he conducted his work
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Grainger, Percy Aldridge - Irish Tune From County Derry Wind Band Score Sheet Music 12.95 - From the Percy Grainger Critical Edition series. Percy Grainger completed this band setting of what he called 'Irish Tune From County Derry' in 1918 for http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Grainger-Percy-Aldridge-Irish-Tune-from-County-D
Extractions: Usually despatched within 14 days Department Symphonic Band Full Score Publisher Carl Fischer More Product Details More Product Details From the Percy Grainger Critical Edition series. Percy Grainger completed this band setting of what he called 'Irish Tune From County Derry' in 1918 for the Army Band at Governor's Island, New York. Show Submit a customer review
Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Percy (Aldridge), original name GEORGE PERCY GRAINGER (b. July 8, 1882, Melbourne, Victoria, Australiad. Feb. 20, 1961, White Plains, N.Y., U.S.), Australianborn http://www.uv.es/EBRIT/micro/micro_242_65.html
Extractions: Britannica CD Index Articles Dictionary Help original name GEORGE PERCY GRAINGER (b. July 8, 1882, Melbourne, Victoria, Australiad. Feb. 20, 1961, White Plains, N.Y., U.S.), Australian-born American composer, pianist, and conductor who was also known for his work in collecting folk music. Grainger first appeared publicly as a pianist at age 10. He was educated at home in Melbourne by his mother. He studied piano with Louis Pabst in that city and later went to Frankfurt, where he attended the conservatory. He achieved a reputation as a brilliant concert pianist beginning in London in 1901. In 1906 Grainger became a friend of Edvard Grieg , under whose influence he began collecting and recording English folk songs by means of wax-cylinder phonographs. He settled in the United States in 1914, performing for a few years with a U.S. Army band. Grainger was deeply affected by the suicide of his mother in 1922. He returned to Australia alone in 1924 and toured there as a pianist in 1926 and again in 1934-35. In 1932-33 he was head of the music department of New York University. In 1935 he founded the Grainger Museum at Melbourne, a museum of Australian music where much of his own work and some of his artifacts are preserved.
