21. Music Division Archival Guide -- GRAINGER, PERCY, 1882-1961 Biographical sketch Composer, pianist, conductor and publisher born in Australia,percy grainger moved to the United States in 1914, teaching piano at Chicago http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/4/7/m15-355-e.html

Publications GRAINGER, PERCY, 1882-1961 MUS 5 Percy Grainger fonds - 1896-1961. - 24 cm of textual records. - 1 photograph. Biographical sketch 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 by donation from the Percy Grainger Library Society in 1964. Restrictions: none.

22. Percy Grainger Born the son of an architect in Brighton, Victoria, Australia, percy grainger wasa precocious pianist, and the proceeds of a series of concerts, given at the http://www.eroica.com/phoenix/jdt119-pg.html

Back to the Phoenix Records Catalog Order ... Grainger LINCOLNSHIRE POSY, Britten A SIMPLE SYMPHONY, Warlock CAPRIOL SUITE The Orchestra Da Camera di Roma Percy Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry The Irish Tune is based on a tune collected by a Miss J. Ross of New Town, Limavaday, County Derry, Ireland, and published in "The Petri Collection of Ancient Music of Ireland" in 1885. Grainger's setting was written in 1909 and was dedicated to the memory of Edward Grieg, with whom Grainger developed a strong friendship. The "perfect" melody and the rich sonorities of the arrangement have kept the Irish Tune in a favored position for decades. Lincolnshire Posy JDT 119 Audio Sample: Grainger: SHEPHERD'S HEY CDs: Phoenix Records Catalog New Releases Christmas ... Videos Eroica offers a 30-day, money-back guarantee on all CDs. About Us Artists Submit CDs CDs ... Ordering

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KOMPONISTEN Percy Grainger PERCY GRAINGER Busoni nahm er zeitweilig Unterricht. 1901 ließ er sich in London als Konzert-Pianist nieder. Bedeutsam für seine weitere Entwicklung war sein Zusammentreffen mit Evard Grieg (1906), aus dem sich eine langjährige Freundschaft entwickelte. Griegs Liebe zur norwegischen Volksmusik inspirierte Grainger, sich in den folgenden Jahren intensiv zunächst mit englischer, später auch dänischer Volksmusik zu beschäftigen: Mithilfe eines Wachs-Zylinder-Phonografen sammelte er mehrere hundert Volkslieder, die er transkribierte, arrangierte und später in Sammlungen wie den "British Folk-Musik Settings" publizierte. 1914 siedelte Graininger in die USA über, wo er verschiedene Lehrtätigkeiten innehat und 1961, als mittlerweile amerikanischer Staatsbürger, in New York starb. Sein eigenes kompositorisches Schaffen, mit dem er ab etwa 1905 hervortrat, stellte er unter den Leitgedanken der Entwicklung einer "Free Music", einer Musik, die sich losgelöst von allen traditionellen Restriktionen, wie Grainger sie durch starre Einteilung des Tonvorrats in Skalen (tonal wie atonal), in rhythmischen oder harmonischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten verkörpert sah, entfalten kann. Charakteristika seiner experimentierfreudigen Kompositionen hin zu einer "Free Music" sind vor allem eine freie Bewegung durch den Tonraum in kleineren als den traditionellen Intervallschritten und in gleitenden Tönen, Polytonalität, irreguläre Rhythmen sowei offene Formgestaltungen.

24. - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary with life and examination of some of his works.Category Arts Music Composition Composers G grainger, percy......percy grainger Life. The Australian pianist and composer percy grainger,an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance. Nevertheless http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/grainger.html

Composers Biography Languages Percy Grainger Life Works Photo Gallery Home Page Percy Grainger Life 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. Percy Grainger Works 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.

25. Percy Aldridge Grainger Champion of the Folksong. By. Scott D. Farquhar. 10 May 1995. During his lifetime,percy grainger was best known as a concert pianist of great talent and stature. http://members.aol.com/ComposerScott/essays/PAG.html

Percy Aldridge Grainger Champion of the Folksong By Scott D. Farquhar 10 May 1995 During his lifetime, Percy Grainger was best known as a concert pianist of great talent and stature. He was the chief interpreter of the piano concerto of Edvard Grieg, and even developed a close friendship with the Norwegian composer. Lesser known as a composer and arranger, his more popular works are of a lighter, frivolous, and crowd-pleasing nature. His more serious original works are finally starting to be examined and appreciated for their value. His greatest achievements, however, are in the realm of folksong collecting and arranging. This genre of music for the common folk permeated his career as a performer and composer as well. Folksong had an undeniably strong influence on him, and he in turn had a strong influence on its preservation and its elevation into a musical genre worthy of serious academic investigation. Percy Grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 8, 1882 to John Harry Grainger, an architect, and Rose Annie Aldridge. His musical training began at age five on the piano. He practiced two hours a day under the tutelage of his extremely formidable mother for five years. Rose became responsible for young Percy's entire education when he refused to return to school after witnessing his classmates torment some hapless animal. He developed a fondness for Anglo-Saxon and old Norse literature such as Beowulf and the Icelandic sagas. At age ten he began studying with Louis Pabst and gave his first public recital at age twelve on July 9, 1894 at the Melbourne Masonic Hall.

26. Classical Net Review - Percy Grainger of grainger's parents, odd themselves (although percy had little grainger, his geniusaside, was also more than A brilliant concert pianist, he hated the piano http://www.classical.net/music/books/reviews/0198166524a.html

Percy Grainger John Bird. Prefatory note by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Appreciation by Leopold Stokowski. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999. 379 pp. ISBN 0198166524 On the dust-jacket cover of this excellent book, the composer Percy Aldridge Grainger looks out like a child with a naughty secret he hopes you share, so intently that the air between you and the portrait seems to vibrate. Few composers lead outward lives especially interesting. Most don't go exploring in remote corners of the world, break up spy rings, or achieve worldly power. Whatever interest we have in them usually centers on their inner lives. Although Grainger's "inner weather" seemed to mix a boy's playroom with the Hellfire Club, his outward eccentricities and his adventures as concert pianist and brilliant inventor mark him as one of the few exceptions to the general rule. I would say by almost any measure, Grainger was a genius, or at least a polymath. With only three months of formal schooling, he managed to master composition, the piano, electronics, and several languages. Many of his friends remarked that whatever the topic of conversation, Grainger could talk not only knowledgeably, but brilliantly. Yet, to his death, he remained intellectually a precocious adolescent. He believed the most incredible nonsense: that the greatest composers all had blue eyes (he photographed Vaughan Williams's eyes not once, but twice), that there really was a white man's burden, Nordic folk were God's chosen, Jews couldn't be trusted, among other things. He transferred his prostate-cancer operation from the Mayo Clinic to Denmark because he didn't want to risk drawing a Jewish doctor. On the other hand, he was not actively vicious in this regard. He admired Gershwin's music tremendously, going so far as to arrange songs and parts of

27. Penelope Thwaites - Impulse Penelope's interest in Australian composer and pianist percy grainger was firedby hearing Benjamin Britten's marvellous recorded selection, Salute to percy http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/thwaites.htm

Penelope Thwaites Pianist and Percy Grainger Specialist thwaites.jackson@virgin.net INTERNATIONAL CAREER PERFORMING COMPOSING AND RECORDING ... CONTACTS INTERNATIONAL CAREER Born in Chester of Australian parents, Penelope grew up in Melbourne, graduating in Music from Melbourne University, and continued her studies in London. As a roving ambassador for Australian music she has made, in recent years, highly successful tours in Poland, Austria, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, Malta, Denmark and Switzerland. Her regular visits to Australia itself have included tours for the ABC and Musica Viva and performing in the International Melbourne Festival. Follow these links to other pages about Penelope Thwaites: AMC www.amcoz.com.au ABC www.abc.net.au Bardic www.bardic-music.com Performing Australian Music Competition Penny's Grainger Recordings Back to top PERFORM ING Since her London Wigmore Hall debut in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has performed and broadcast on 5 continents, with a repertoire ranging from Bach to the present day. Her artistry as a pianist has won her critical response world-wide. Her skills as a communicator, in words as well as music, have given a fresh approach to her many original programmes. She plays regularly in London's major concert halls and as concerto soloist has appeared with the Philharmonia at the Barbican, with the London Philharmonic at the Festival Hall, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and at the Royal Opera House, under Sir Charles Mackerras in the 1993 Australia Day Gala Concert, given in the presence of HRH Prince Charles, as well as with leading orchestras in Australia and America.

28. Percy Grainger - Impulse Penelope Thwaites. pianist. and. percy grainger Specialist. Contents. Thegrainger Event 7th and 8th November 1998 St John's, Smith Square, London. http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/grainger.htm

Penelope Thwaites Pianist and Percy Grainger Specialist Contents The Grainger Event 7th and 8th November 1998 St John's, Smith Square, London Artistic Director - Penelope Thwaites - writes: "Grainger's music is a sound world unlike any other. Solovox, flugelhorn, a "free-music" machine will be some of the novelties of THE GRAINGER EVENT. If you want to get inside his gorgeous realisations of folk melodies such as The Londonderry Air, join the BBC Singers for the CHORAL WORKSHOP on Sunday 8th November. For some highly unusual windband sounds, let the KNELLER HALL BAND on Saturday 7th, lift you out of your seat! Encounter a sample of his Free Music as well as popular favourites like Mock Morris with the PERCY GRAINGER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Hear his SOLO SONGS, by turns haunting and hilarious, in the Saturday Gala concert. And if you'd like to hear the exciting sound of 3 concert Steinways in the wild and wonderful The Warriors, Sunday's MULTI-PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA is for you. The GRAINGER EVENT encompasses, for the first time ever, the four main areas of Grainger's life - Australia, UK, Denmark and the USA - and will include a number of first performances. It is a delight and a privilege to be joined by such a great line-up of artists, and by international Grainger scholars who will give background to both man and music.

29. Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8809, Percy Grainger Plays Grainger - Booklet No grainger's greatness as a pianist is being discussed. It is played with a ferocityand wild abandon that is at times frightening. Wilfrid Mellers says, percy http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/gpiano/8809c.html

Percy Grainger plays Grainger by David Dubal Percy Grainger's reputation and musical stock has greatly risen in the past decade or so. His music definitely speaks louder and more joyously than it ever has. Its bracing good will and generally folk-like character gives it its multi-cultural flavour. Percy wanted to bring "all the world's music to all the world." He grew up in a colonial British Australia, in a young country that heralded democratic ideals which stayed with him forever. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Percy was young, handsome, energetic, and a pianistic wizard. He was also a part of the vigorous folk-song collecting taking place in many countries. The fear that industrialisation would forever destroy the great repository of folk song was a real concern with such men as Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Kodály, Pedrell, and many others. Grainger loved with an exuberant passion folk music of every context and was convinced that European civilisation had become artistically too rarefied, having lost its earthiness and animal vitality. He had come to dislike the intellectuality of the sonata form and often actively denounced the Viennese classical school, having a temperamental antipathy towards Beethoven himself. Throughout his career, he was associated with Grieg's music, especially the piano concerto. Grieg's death prevented a tour together where Grainger would have been soloist in the concerto. Grainger's interesting edition of the concerto with many fine points confirmed by the composer should be consulted by any pianist studying the composition.

30. Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8809, Percy Grainger Plays Grainger - Title Page percy grainger plays graingerCategory Arts Music Composition Composers G grainger, percy......NI 8809 Total Playing Time 76.24 DDD. percy grainger plays grainger. It shows graingerto have been a highly unorthodox pianist wild and renegade in his http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/gpiano/8809a.html

NI 8809 Total Playing Time 76.24 DDD Percy Grainger plays Grainger "What we do hear is detailed, very well recorded on a modern concert grand, and stylistically fascinating. It shows Grainger to have been a highly unorthodox pianist - wild and renegade in his attitudes to conventional keyboard decorum, chopping and lurching his way with spontaneity from phrase to phrase, and priapically rhythmic in almost everything he played. The results are invigorating ... These unique Nimbus reconstructions of the Grainger sound make most other performances of his music I have heard sound misguidedly conventional and tame. Controversial the piano rolls themselves may be: to my ears the sound that they produce is very much that of the real beast." Terry Blain, Classic CD postage and packing All rights of the producer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised copying, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited.

31. Klassik Tipps Archiv Klavier Jun - Sept 01 Translate this page percy grainger war Schüler von Busoni, befreundet mit E. Grieg undwirkte als pianist und Dirigent. Die neue CD mit Klavierstücken http://www.klassiktipps.de/archiv/ar 1 02/arklav7.htm

KLASSIK TIPPS ARCHIV - Rubriken KLAVIER Empfehlungen Juni - September 2001 Leopold Godowsky , polnischer Pianist und Komponist, war zu seiner Zeit ein gefeierter Klaviervirtuose. Er ist bekannt für seine Bearbeitungen der Werke anderer Komponisten (z.B Studien über Chopin Etüden ), aber auch mit seinen eigenen Klavierwerken konnte er sich Ansehen erwerben. Das komplette " Triakontameron ", einer dreißigteiligen Folge von "Stimmungsbildern und Szenen im 3er Takt", die der weltberühmte Pianist und Komponist im Jahr 1920, als Abgesang auf den Wiener Walzer, komponierte, sind jetzt erstmalig auf CD erschienen. Percy Grainger war Schüler von Busoni, befreundet mit E. Grieg und wirkte als Pianist und Dirigent. Die neue CD mit Klavierstücken aus seiner Jugend zeigt einen Komponisten im Alter zwischen 10 und 20 Jahren, der bereits gekonnt Präludien Bachs adaptierte, eigenständige Stücke und Volksliedbearbeitungen schuf. Das klingt in einer gewissen Weise wie Unterhaltungsmusik ansehen, das dafür aber auf hohen Niveau. Robert Schumann hat wie kein anderer Komponist hat den Geist der Romantik am Klavier zum Ausdruck gebracht. Schumanns

32. Percy Grainger In 1901, grainger and his mother moved on to London, where he became well knownas a concert pianist. Like Béla Bartók, percy grainger was interested in http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/composers/grainger.html

Percy Grainger Percy Grainger was born July 8, 1882, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano as a child and gave his first recital in 1895, at the age of twelve. Like most children, Grainger enjoyed playing outdoors. He wondered why music could not be as free as the sounds of nature. Grainger moved with his mother, Rose Grainger, to Frankfurt, Germany, for more musical studies. In 1901, Grainger and his mother moved on to London, where he became well known as a concert pianist. Like , Percy Grainger was interested in collecting and preserving folk songs. While he lived in London, he traveled around England, collecting and transcribing folk songs. He recorded these songs on a wax-cylinder phonograph. Grainger believed that folk songs were a good source for learning the history of certain communities. Folk songs were important to Grainger for another reason as well. He wanted to be a composer. He used the folk songs he collected as the basis for many of his pieces, including Lincolnshire Posy.

33. Percy Grainger percy grainger. Born in 1882, the son of a architect in Brighton, Victoria, Australia,percy Granger was a precocious pianist, and the proceeds of a series of http://www.truscottst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/rhys/PercyGrainger.htm

Percy Grainger Born in 1882, the son of a architect in Brighton, Victoria, Australia, Percy Granger was a precocious pianist, and the proceeds of a series of concerts, given at the age of twelve, enabled him to go to Frankfurt for six years, after which he began his European career at as a concert pianist, settling in London in 1901. He came to the U.S. in 1915 and enlisted as an army batsmen at the outbreak of World War 1. He became an American citizen in 1919. It was during his stay in England that he became passionately involved in collecting and arranging folk songs and country-dances. It had been related, “Percy never had the slightest hesitation in pumping anybody that he came across. He would go up to the man and ask him if he knew any song sand as often not the man would stand there for a minute or two he and sing him a song in the most natural way in the world.” Percy Grainger was a picturesque nationalist who tried to retain something of the original flavour of British folk songs and their singers by strict observance of peculiarities of performance such as varying beat length sand the use of “primitive” techniques such as parallelism. Here are some tunes that he made and a bit about them.

34. Portrait Of Percy Grainger , 1580460879 percy grainger (18821961) was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist,and much more. The Australian-American musician aspired http://www.boydell.co.uk/3939.HTM

Search You do not have a java enabled browser - click here for alternative menus Portrait of Percy Grainger Edited by Malcolm Gillies Edited by David Pear Lincolnshire Posy , he was enduringly popular with the band movement in America. On a personal level, his development of the language of 'blue-eyed English' was stillborn, and his muscular style of pianism found few adherents among the next generation of performers. His frankly expressed views on sexual licence were also many decades ahead of their time. Today, however, Grainger the musician is again in the ascendant. His more innovative works are gaining a belated hearing, while his standards, such as Country Gardens , remain firm favorites. Malcolm Gillies and David Pear are co-editors of Grainger on Music and 'The All-Round Man': Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961 Contents Australia, 1882-1895, I Germany, 1895-1901, 21 Britain, 1901-1914, 35 America, 1914-1922, 73 America, 1922-1939, 109 America, 1939-1961, 165 Grainger on Grainger, 201 Reviews 'The editors of this volume have...skilfully avoided the familiar trap and have given us a rewarding, informative and - wonder of wonders - entertaining take on Percy Grainger, and we can but thank them warmly for it.' DELIUS SOCIETY JOURNAL, Autumn 2002 'There is a wealth of fascinating material here. This book is worth every penny and is a must for every Delian's library.' THE DELIAN (Oct.2002)

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Search Concert Brochure, 1914 50 b/w illustrations 242 pages Size: 9 x 6 in ISBN: 1 58046 087 9 Binding: Hardback First published: 2002 Price: 60.00 USD, 40.00 GBP Series: Eastman Studies in Music go back order Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The Australian-American musician aspired to the condition of a polymath, with strong interests in language, culture, ecology and technology. In an age of increasing specialisation Grainger held to a breathless all-roundedness. This book looks at the scrabbling diversity of Grainger's life through the eyes of others. Family and friends, pupils, musical associates and chance acquaintances recall their experiences of Percy Grainger from his boyhood in colonial Australia, through his conservatorium years in Germany, on to his early professional years in London, and further to the zenith of his career and then years of decline in the United States. In the final chapter, Grainger himself explains the driving passions of his life. Fifty illustrations, including architectural drawings, scores and machine plans, vividly depict the enthusiasms described in over ninety recollections of Grainger. A composer of over four hundred compositions and virtuoso performer in some three thousand concerts, Grainger left a large legacy. He was an important influence upon the folk-song movement in Britain, and, through such masterworks as

36. Percy Grainger Competition . Douglas Lilburn Project . SouthWest . Radio Feature While visiting New Zealand in 1935 the eminent composerpianist, PercyGrainger, announced a prize for an original New Zealand composition. http://www.southwest.org.nz/dl/htm/percyGrainger.htm

While visiting New Zealand in 1935 the eminent composer-pianist, Percy Grainger, announced a prize for an original New Zealand composition. Douglas won this prize with his tone poem for orchestra called "Forest". "The turning point I suppose was that Percy Grainger prize ... I was a third year student doing orchestration for the first time when I wrote this piece called Forest and put it in, and to my astonishment a few months later a reporter and a photographer turned up on the doorstep. After that it was fame. You know the sweet taste of fame, never had it so good since. It gave me 25 pounds. What that was worth in those days I don't know, but it was enough to impress my family that there might be a bit of money in it you know. Not only that but my father had a letter from the President of the Farmers' Union congratulating him on his son's musical success. And I think it shook him a bit because he couldn't believe it. He used to say, if it had to be music couldn't it be the bagpipes!" - Extract from the Jack Body interview with Douglas (ca 1980).

37. Details Of Grainger Competition . Douglas Lilburn Project . SouthWest . Radio Fe of Competition Conceived by grainger NZ Radio Record Friday April 17, 1936 Atthe suggestion of Mr. percy grainger, the eminent composer-pianist, who has http://www.southwest.org.nz/dl/htm/radioRecord17April.htm

Opportunity for N.Z. Composers - Details of Competition Conceived by Grainger N.Z. Radio Record - Friday April 17, 1936 At the suggestion of Mr. Percy Grainger, the eminent composer-pianist, who has donated the first prize of twenty-five pounds, the New Zealand Broadcasting Board is conducting a competition for a typical New Zealand musical composition. Second and third prizes of ten pounds and five pounds respectively, have been donated by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, in addition to Mr. Grainger's first prize of twenty-five pounds, and entries are invited from all New Zealand-born musicians and others interested. The following conditions have been laid down at the request of Percy Grainger: The composer must be a born (not naturalised) New Zealander. The composition to be between five minutes and thirty-five minutes in length. The composition to be in any known or new musical style, and in any known or new musical form, and scored for any of the following combinations: Six or more voices (vocal ensemble of solo voices or women's or children's chorus, or male chorus or mixed chorus, or solo voices with chorus), singing with or without words, with or without accompaniment by orchestral group (orchestra or chamber music or organ and instruments), or piano duet or two pianos. NB: Piano solo not permissible. Chamber music for more than five, but not more than twenty-five instruments. Any combination of instruments may be employed, and a voice or voices (singing with or without words) may be used with the instruments if desired.

38. CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography Of Percy Grainger grainger, percy (Aldridge) (b Brighton, Victoria, 1882; d White Plains,NY, 1961). Australianborn composer and pianist (Amer. cit. 1918). http://www.prs.net/bios/codm/grainger.html

Click here to subscribe to the Archives for $25/year Link to the CMA Email this site to a friend Discussion Forum ... Enable Javascript JAVASCRIPT MUST BE ENABLED TO NAVIGATE THIS SITE. PLEASE ENABLE JAVASCRIPT AND BROWSER COOKIES AND REFRESH/RELOAD THIS PAGE Biography of Percy Grainger Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 4th edition by Michael Kennedy and Joyce Bourne By permission of Oxford University Press Click to find the music of Percy Grainger in the Archives! Click for the Index of Biographies or the Click here to see the Oxford University Press books we recommend below... Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) b Brighton, Victoria, 1882; d Grieg , who greatly admired his playing and invited him to Norway to make a special study of the pf. conc. in A minor, a work of which he remained a notable interpreter. Collected and ed. Eng. folksongs, incl. Brigg Fair , collected at N. Lincs. mus. competition fest. at Brigg, 1905. His arr. of it was admired by Delius Shepherd's Hey , usually based on traditional tunes, his folksong arrs. for ch., e.g. Shallow Brown ORIGINAL: KEYBOARD: Over the Hills and Far Away , 2 pf. (1916-18);

39. Memories Of Rose & Percy Grainger, By Kitty Parker (1936) I spent the greater part of my childhood, to continue my piano studies, and becomea solo pianist. I had made up my mind to study with percy grainger if he http://www.geocities.com/id_munro/memsrpg.htm

The following brief essay was written on Percy Grainger's request, presumably with a view to inclusion in Grainger's extensive and scrupulously ordered archive of materials relating himself and his mother. It is possibly the connection to Percy's mother, Rose Grainger, that prompted the request, given Kitty's close acquaintance with her and the likelihood that the two women shared conversations and views about Percy during his absences on tour. Kitty writes mainly of her admiration for Grainger, eschewing the opportunity for detailed and lengthy descriptions. There is an unfortunate absence of dates; Kitty clearly did not regard her role as an historian and treated the exercise in a naive and informal way, taking every opportunity to let her friend know how highly she thought of him. Grainger, in his turn, added a brief paragraph of sincere praise of Kitty, leaving no doubt as to his high regard for her. The document is held in the Grainger Museum , University of Melbourne. by Kitty Eisdell (before marriage: Katharine Parker) must have someone who appreciates their work, listens intelligently, criticizes kindly, and fans the flame of enthusiasm again and again. The eternal practising and work necessary for a solo pianist becomes so wearisome day after day unless one is being urged on by someone and stimulated perpetually. Well, having gone on a little reminiscing I must now go back to the time after my first meeting with Percy and Mrs Grainger.

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