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Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's "American" years, 1914-61.These letters are fascination to read: they are cultivated "rambles" (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephone conversations.Often written in Grainger's crunchy "Blue-eyed English", they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life.They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Percy Grainger," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Percy Grainger in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Percy Grainger when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Percy Grainger, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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The energy, love of nature, and creativity of Australian-born American composer and pianist Percy Grainger shines through in this collection that includes 15 of his most popular piano works. Included are "Country Gardens," "Molly on the Shore,""Colonial Song," "Irish Tune from County Derry," "Shepherd's Hey," "Spoon River," "Mock Morris," "Maguire's Kick," "Handel in the Strand," and six others.
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Chapters: Paul Hindemith, Otto Klemperer, Percy Grainger, Ernst Toch, Edward Macdowell, Frederic Austin, Leonard Borwick, Ernest Bloch, Hans-Jürgen Von Bose, Richard Tauber, Frederick Septimus Kelly, Cyril Scott, Hans Pfitzner, Moritz Eggert, Catherine Carswell, Walter Braunfels, Alexander Schneider, Margarete Dessoff, Kurt Hessenberg, Hans Rosbaud, Oskar Fried, Tiana Lemnitz, Clemens Von Und Zu Franckenstein, Alfred Hollins, Roger Quilter, Christof Lauer, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Walter Rehberg, Boris Hambourg, Rudi Stephan, Max Rudolf, Erich Itor Kahn, Norman O'neill, Emil Mangelsdorff, Johanna Senfter, Erich Schmid. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 162. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, and pianist, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger. Percy Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. His father John Harry Grainger was a successful and talented architect who grew up in France and was educated in a monastery school in Yvetot. He emigrated from London, England in 1876. John Grainger's business partner and best friend was David Mitchell, the father of Nellie Melba. Her father was determined to prevent Nellie from taking up singing as a career and John Grainger is credited with encouraging her singing. He maintained a close friendship with Nellie and later designed her house "Coombe Cottage" in 1912. Percy Grainger's mother, Rose (née Rosa Annie Aldridge; 3 July 1861, Adelaide, South Australia 30 April 1922, New York City), was the daughter of George Aldridge and Sarah Jane Aldridge (née Brown), hoteliers from Adelaide, also of English immigrant stock. Graingers mother contracted syphilis, from her husband, early in the marriage and after the birth of Percy ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=254507 ... Read more

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Chapters: Greg Egan, Hugo Weaving, Missy Higgins, Gary Forrester, J. M. Coetzee, Desmond Ford, Percy Grainger, Vanessa Amorosi, Elle Macpherson, Benjamin Speed, Mark Oliphant, Jackie O, Isabel Lucas, Ben Lee, Sophie Monk, Abbie Cornish, Axella Johannesson, Val Plumwood, Radha Mitchell, Cliff Young, Michael Guy Chislett, Pippa Black, Xavier Rudd, Murray Rose, Dave Hughes, Victor Peirce, Chris Ross. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor, her No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007. In 2006, Higgins wrote new material for her second album, and following a US tour she recorded On a Clear Night, which gave her another No. 1 single with "Steer". Higgins has conducted several well received Australian tours and performed ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6996933 ... Read more

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Title: Portrait of Percy Grainger. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
Author: Kay Dreyfus
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 59Issue: 3Page: 637(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Kapitel: J. G. Thirlwell, Percy Grainger, Brett Dean, Ron Grainer, Anthony Pateras, Arthur Benjamin, David Lumsdaine, Alfred Hill, Vivienne Olive, George Dreyfus, Malcolm Williamson, Peter O'mara, Lindley Evans, Elena Kats-Chernin, John Lemmoné, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, John Antill, Ross Edwards, Georges Lentz, Grant Stevens, Archie Roach, Barrington Pheloung, Graeme Koehne, George Frederick Boyle, John Williamson, Dorian le Gallienne. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ron Grainer (11 August 1922 - 21 February 1981) was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his film and television music. Grainer was born in Atherton, Queensland, Australia. He studied music under Sir Eugene Goosens at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but this was interrupted by World War II. He was enlisted to the Australian Army and was injured, almost losing a leg. Moving to Britain in the 1950s, Grainer collaborated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on a number of television series themes, including Giants of Steam (a documentary about railways) and in 1963 on the science fiction series Doctor Who. Grainer was so impressed with Delia Derbyshire's electronic realisation of his score (which remained the standard version of the Doctor Who theme for 18 years) that he is reputed to have said on hearing it, "Did I really write that?" He also offered to split his royalty with her, but this was prevented by BBC bureaucracy. The Doctor Who theme is one of Grainer's two most famous compositions, the other being the theme music for the ITC series The Prisoner, the latter theme based upon an earlier piece of music he had written entitled The Age of Elegance. In each case, the popularity is not based on the cult classic status of the series, but upon the music itself, which was uniquely suited to the storyline. The theme from Doctor Who has a driving-yet-mysterious sound, wh...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Kapitel: Percy Grainger, Wilhelm Wieprecht, Miquel Asins Arbó, John Philip Sousa, Hubertus Kilian, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Kenneth J. Alford, Julius Fučík, Herms Niel, Hannes Apfolterer, Albert Parlow, Jiří Družecký, Carl Teike, Max Hempel, Karl Mühlberger, Dominik Ertl, Hans Orterer, Carl Latann, Walter Ratzek, Michel Delgiudice, Carl Karl, Niki Wuchinger, August Wilhelm Theodor Adam, Heinz Dieter Paul, August Neithardt, Hans Eibl, Franz Doelle, Wilhelm August Jurek, Oscar Jünger, Joseph Gungl, Hermann Dostal, Philipp Sonntag, Julius Möllendorf, Andreas Nemetz, Josef Wagner, Adolf Scherzer, Richard Henrion, Hans Schmid, József Ruzitska, Segundo Luis Moreno, Friedrich-Wilhelm Voigt, Gašpar Mašek. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Other reasons this message may be displayed: ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: English Folk-Song Collectors, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Joseph Jacobs, A. L. Lloyd, Peter Warlock, Lucy Broadwood, Lucy Lloyd, Ernest John Moeran, Joseph Ritson, Thomas Percy, John Roby, George Butterworth, David Lewiston, Laurence Gomme, Robert Hunt, Iona and Peter Opie, Katharine Mary Briggs, William B. Sandys, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Bruce Bastin, William Thoms, Alfred Nutt, Estella Canziani, Jacqueline Simpson, Alice Gomme, Frank Kidson, Francis Hindes Groome, William Chappell, Janet Blunt, Kate Lee, Folklore Society, Steve Roud. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 166. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:A. L. Lloyd Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908- 29 September 1982), usually known as A. L. Lloyd or Bert Lloyd , was an English folk singer and collector of folk songs, and as such was a key figure in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.Early life Lloyd was born in Wandsworth in London, his father was an AA Patrolman and failed smallholder. His mother sang songs around the house and according to Lloyd mimicked the Gipsy singers that she'd heard. By the age of fifteen his mother had died and his father, an ex-soldier, was a semi-invalid, and Lloyd was sent as an assisted migrant to Australia in a scheme organised by the British Legion . There, from 1924-1930, he worked on various sheep stations in New South Wales and it was during this time that he began to write down folksongs he learned. . In the outback of New South Wales he discovered that he could access the State Library and order books - his special interests being art and music he could get a grasp of those topics without seeing a painting or hearing any music. He also bought a wind-up gramophone and began to investigate some of the classical music he had previously... ... Read more

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Chapters: Eileen Joyce, Percy Grainger, Geoffrey Tozer, Leslie Howard, Nancy Weir, Ian Munro, Geoffrey Parsons, Isador Goodman, Simon Tedeschi, George Vern Barnett, Stephen Hough, Frank Hutchens, Alan Kogosowski, David Helfgott, David Fung, Stephen Whittington, Lance Dossor, Michael Kieran Harvey, Piers Lane, Max Olding and Pamela Page, Alexander Sverjensky, Warren Thomson, Vera Bradford, Roger Smalley, Romola Costantino, Anna Goldsworthy, Stephanie Mccallum, Geoffrey Lancaster, Lindley Evans, Ignaz Friedman, Dennis Hennig, Noel Mewton-Wood, Aaron Mcmillan, William Murdoch, Michael Brimer, John Carmichael, Tessa Birnie, Kathryn Selby, Rebecca Chambers, Amir Farid, John Bishop, Winifred Burston, Nelson and Neal, Ernest Hutcheson, W. Arundel Orchard, David Mcskimming, Valda Aveling, Duncan Gifford, Roger Woodward, Bruce Hungerford, Tahu Matheson, Ambre Hammond, Mark Knoop, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Anthony Pateras, Tamara Anna Cislowska, Ruth Nye. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 232. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (1 January 1908 25 March 1991) was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years. Her recordings made her popular internationally (less so in the USA) in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly during World War II; at her zenith she was compared in popular esteem with Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. When she played in Berlin in 1947 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, an eminent German critic classed her with Clara Schumann, Sophie Menter and Teresa Carreño. When she performed in the United States in 1950, Irving Kolodin called her "the world's greatest unknown pianist". She became even better known during the 1950s, when she played 50 recitals a year in London alone, which were always sold out. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4769108 ... Read more

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Chapters: Lincolnshire Posy, Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore, Country Gardens, Train Music. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band, composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 19051906 trip to Lincolnshire, England. The work debuted with three of the movements on March 7, 1937 by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from several bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unlike other composers that attempted to alter and modernize folk music for band, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams (see English Folk Song Suite), Grainger wished to maintain the exact sense of stylizing that he experienced from the singers. Grainger wrote: Grainger dedicated his "bunch of Wildflowers" to "the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me." The piece is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn (ad lib), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon (ad lib), E-flat clarinet, 3 B-flat clarinets, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, 6 saxophones (soprano, 2 altos, tenor, baritone and bass (ad lib)), 3 cornets or trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, baritone horn, euphonium, tuba, string bass, timpani, xylophone, handbells, tubular bells (ad lib), snare drum, bass drum and cymbals. Originally entitled Dublin Bay, the first movement of Lincolnshire Posy is the shortest a brisk, simple, lilted melody in 6/8 time. The main theme of the movement is presented first in the muted trumpets and is set against a war-like motif in the horns. Like the fourth movement, this movement ends in a serene, s...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9474467 ... Read more

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Chapters: Percy Grainger, Mike Chapman, John Prior, Malcolm Williamson, Lisa Gerrard, Katia Tiutiunnik, Bruce Woodley, Benjamin Speed, Robert Hughes, David Hobson, Arthur Benjamin, Matthew Dewey, Garth Paine, Lindsay Vickery, Raymond Hanson, Isaac Nathan, David Lumsdaine, Daevid Allen, Alfio, Ian Munro, Paul Grabowsky, Roy Agnew, Eric Gross, Tristram Cary, Martin Wesley-Smith, Andrew Garton, May Brahe, Isador Goodman, Albert Arlen, James Morrison, Grahame Bond, Peter Sculthorpe, J. G. Thirlwell, Bradley Eustace, Larry Sitsky, Dulcie Holland, Richard Connolly, Liza Lim, William May, Matthew Hindson, Phil Treloar, Brett Dean, Fritz Hart, Stephen Leek, Nick Haywood, Peter Pinne, Thomas Fitzgerald, Frank Hutchens, John Boswell Maver, Glen Carter-Varney, Richard Tognetti, Jon Rose, Georges Lentz, Dorian le Gallienne, Harry Brus, Stephen Whittington, Richard Mills, David Worrall, Sven Libaek, Alex Lithgow, List of Australian Composers, Colin Brumby, William Mckie, Peter Tahourdin, Alfred Hill, Peter Dodds Mccormick, Constantine Koukias, Thomas Bulch, Brian May, Ron Grainer, Roger Smalley, Philip Bračanin, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Anne Boyd, Judith Clingan, William G. James, Andrew Ford, Marshall Hall, Ian Keith Harris, Lindley Evans, David Chesworth, Miriam Hyde, Ignaz Friedman, Thomas Lorenzo, Raffaele Marcellino, Chris Mann, Elena Kats-Chernin, Carl Vine, Barry Conyngham, Eugene Ball, William Murdoch, Bruce Rowland, Lawrence English, Michael Brimer, John Carmichael, Joseph Twist, Graeme Koehne, Richard Meale, Hans-Hubert Schönzeler, Bruce Smeaton, Ian Cugley, Barrington Pheloung, Ronald Hanmer, Colin Black, George Dreyfus, George Palmer, Andrew Schultz, Andrew Chubb, Chris Willcock, Robert J. Kral, R. J. Stove, George Clutsam, John Antill, Nigel Westlake, Paul Doornbusch, Julian Knowles, Maria Grenfell, Anne Cawrse, W. Arundel Orchard, Henry Krips, Ian Dorricott, John Rodgers, George Tibbits, Ross Edwards, Wilfrid Holland, Ross Bo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=254507 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Norman Finkelstein, Ludwig Von Mises, Otto Loewi, Peter Drucker, Andreas Floer, Percy Grainger, William Edwards Deming, Samuel F. B. Morse, David Wechsler, Anna J. Schwartz, Richard Courant, Louis Nirenberg, Robert Goldwater, Sonia Sotomayor, Linda Nochlin, Neil Postman, William J. Baumol, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Jürgen Moser, Bertell Ollman, Gregory Chudnovsky, Lipman Bers, Philip Zimbardo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Werner Angress, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Michail Leonidowitsch Gromow, Ned Block, Karl William Kapp, Thomas Nagel, Horst W. Janson, Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Magnus, Peter Lax, Norman Cantor, Peter Sarnak, Werner Hamacher, George Perle, Martin Davis, Severo Ochoa, Eli Reed, Robert Richtmyer, Ernest Van Den Haag, Baruj Benacerraf, Curt Sachs, David Chudnovsky, Amir Pnueli, Konrad Osterwalder, Helmut Hofer, Elias Khoury, Krystyna Kuperberg, E. L. Doctorow, John Corigliano, Robert C. Weaver, Joseph W. Dauben, Anselm Haverkamp, Terry Harrison, Mcgeorge Bundy, Martin Greif, Jeff Cheeger, Robert V. Kohn, Joseph B. Keller, Manfred Padberg, Israel M. Kirzner, Karl Lehmann-Hartleben, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Abramovitz, Lai-Sang Young, George Papanicolaou, Lisa Sokolov, Markus Asper, Percy Deift, Alan Sokal, Michel Kervaire, Robert F. Engle, Stéphane Mallat, Thomas Sargent, Alain-Sol Sznitman, John Ralph Ragazzini, David W. Garland, Eric Salzman, Sidney Hook, Alfred Salmony, John Richardson, Steven Lukes, J. David Velleman, David F. Greenberg, Boyan Jovanovic, Seth Benardete. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Samuel Finley Breese Morse (27 April 1791 - 2 April 1872) was an American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished painter. Birthplace of Morse, Charlestown, MA. ca.1898 photo.Samuel F.B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of a geographer and Pastor Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and Eliza...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Percy Grainger, Malcolm Williamson, Katia Tiutiunnik, Matthew Dewey, Anu School of Music, Simon Tedeschi, Larry Sitsky, David Worrall, Wild Swans, Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, Amir Farid, Carey Beebe, National Theatre, Melbourne, Wilfrid Holland, Ian Cresswell, Page Turn, George Tolhurst, Symphony Australia, Encore Hsc, Train Music. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 95. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, and pianist, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger. Percy Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. His father John Harry Grainger was a successful and talented architect who grew up in France and was educated in a monastery school in Yvetot. He emigrated from London, England in 1876. John Grainger's business partner and best friend was David Mitchell, the father of Nellie Melba. Her father was determined to prevent Nellie from taking up singing as a career and John Grainger is credited with encouraging her singing. He maintained a close friendship with Nellie and later designed her house "Coombe Cottage" in 1912. Percy Grainger's mother, Rose (née Rosa Annie Aldridge; 3 July 1861, Adelaide, South Australia 30 April 1922, New York City), was the daughter of George Aldridge and Sarah Jane Aldridge (née Brown), hoteliers from Adelaide, also of English immigrant stock. Graingers mother contracted syphilis, from her husband, early in the marriage and after the birth of Percy refused to touch him until he was five years old for fear of passing it on to him. When Grainger was aged 11, his father left to visit London and Rose took Percy to live with her parents in Adelaide. He returned to Adelaide but did not rejoin his family. In 1903, while h...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=254507 ... Read more