Extractions: 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 . In November 1935 Mr. Grainger recorded a brief talk [SA/NTK D-440] which was then broadcast by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. "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!"
Extractions: a very beautiful side." Percy Grainger - pianist, composer, eccentric, masochist - was one of the most complex characters ever to come out of Australian culture. Passion explores his life story. Barbara Hershey was really only expecting to do some work on her Aussie accent - which, in the finished film, is actually very impressive - when she asked Richard Roxburgh, her co-star in Passion , to send her some study tapes. " Passion is like a sonata about Percy Grainger. It is romantic and it's dark and it's historical "
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Extractions: 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
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Extractions: Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 - 20 February 1961) was an Australian born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone. Percy Grainger, 1915 He was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in 1882, his father an architect and immigrant from London, his mother, Rose, the daughter of hotelliers from Adelaide, of English immigrant stock. His father was an alcoholic, and when Grainger was aged 11, his parents separated after his mother contracted syphilis from his father and his father returned to London. His mother, a domineering and possessive although cultured figure who recognised his musical abilities, brought him to Europe in 1895 to study at Dr. Hoch's conservatory in Frankfurt. There he displayed his talents as a musical experimenter, using irregular and unusual metres. From 1901 to 1914 Grainger lived in London where he befriended and was influenced by Edvard Grieg, developing a particular interest in recording the folk songs of rural England.
Grainger Museum - Grainger As Artist Homepage for the grainger Museum. gift as a virtuoso pianist. grainger s mother,Rose, began teaching percy the piano when he was seven years old. http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/grainger/percy/music.html
Extractions: Percy biography photographs artist ... His circle By Amelia Peachment When Grainger died in 1961 he left behind an extensive legacy; as a pioneer in electronic music, a sexual liberationist, a folk song collector, and the first Australian composer to promote Asian influences within Australian compositions (to name but a few of his accolades). These other activities have at times overshadowed the talents of this pianistic giant. Percy Grainger's fame began with his extraordinary gift as a virtuoso pianist. Grainger's mother, Rose, began teaching Percy the piano when he was seven years old. She believed in a strict practice regime and a strong work ethic - a philosophy that he adhered to throughout his adult life. During the years he lived in Melbourne (1882 - 1895) he had a number of capable teachers, including Louis Pabst, a former student of Anton Rubinstein. In 1903 he went to Berlin to study with Ferrucio Busoni, (a respected German-Italian teacher and composer) who offered him lessons free of charge. This period served as groundwork for his professional career. Grainger's concert programs were not especially adventurous. He had very specific taste in classical music, remaining loyal to Bach and the piano concertos of Grieg and Tchaikovsky. Indeed, Grainger strategically avoided playing the repertoire of 'the great masters', such as Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. He made no secret of the fact that he believed their music to be constrained by musical convention and harmonically dull. As a result he became known as an exponent of Bach's music, and continued to perform the warhorse concertos of Tchaikovsky and Grieg well into his sixties.
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Portrait Of Percy Grainger , 1580460879 percy grainger (18821961) was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, andmuch more. The Australian-American musician aspired to the condition of a http://www.urpress.com/80460879.HTM
Extractions: 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.
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ArkivMusic Grainger Rambles And Reflections / Piers Lane Like most pianist/composers of his generation, percy grainger was bitten by thetranscription bug, and he tailored a wide variety of compositions from http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=53566
Percy Grainger: percy grainger made famous by Country Gardens comes to loath it because no one pays He had to earn his living as a pianist because he had an ill mother. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1041034.htm
Extractions: Percy Grainger, made famous by 'Country Gardens', comes to loath it because no one pays attention to what he thought was his more important work. This story fills the screen with images and sounds of the life of a one-hit wonder of the early 1900s. GEORGE NEGUS: In the musical world, our own Percy Grainger was one of the most celebrated pianists of his generation. He enjoyed spectacular success in the UK and the US. And his umpteen compositions included the likes of the famous 'Country Gardens' - probably best known these days because it's used to sell, of all things, frozen vegies. Folk song collector, electronic music pioneer, sexual liberationist and fitness fanatic, Sir Percy, one of the country's genuine one-offs, died in 1961. BARRY OULD, HISTORIAN: Grainger was one of the foremost concert pianists of the 20th century. He had to earn his living as a pianist because he had an ill mother. She had syphilis and she became very ill at times. And he...he...he promised her that he'd look after her. And, of course, he came to fame through a little piece he'd been given in 1908 called 'Country Gardens'. He was a musical pioneer in the art of collecting folk songs. WARREN BURT, COMPOSER: He did this all over the world, not just in northern Europe. He also went to New Zealand, through the Pacific. I believe there were trips to the remoter places of North America. So he was very involved in collecting folk songs from many places, what we now call a sensibility of world music.
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Extractions: Kangaroo Pouch Machine PERCY GRAINGER (You will need R ealPlaye r for audio + video) Percy Grainger wanted his skeleton to be displayed in his own museum in Melbourne. The request was turned down on grounds of public decency. Ad Lib is starting a campaign to have Percy's wishes realised. Meanwhile we celebrate this genius of home made electronic instruments with this example which you can see in the Grainger Museum if you care to pop in. Throughout Grainger's whole career, he was busy trying to realise the concept of Free Music; a music free from the tonal or atonal structures of western music. Towards the end of his life, he built (with Burnet Cross) a number of Free Music machines out of industrial waste and junk capable of 'non-harmony' and 'gliding tones'. His first experiments with Beatless Music were started as early as 1899 with his piece The Song of Solomon where the odd time signatures change at every bar. He described the idea as 'music in which no standard duration of beat occurs, but in which all rhythms are free, without beat-cohesion between the various polyphonic parts'.
Extractions: Percy Grainger, (Larrikin, 1999) Born in Victoria, Australia in 1882, Percy Grainger was a very influential folk-song collector, whose classical arrangements of the songs he found are still used and admired today. Though an accomplished pianist by the age of twelve, it was not until his family relocated to London and his friendship with composers such as Grieg and Delius developed, that he began to seriously investigate the traditional music of the UK and Europe. Following the path of Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles et al, he travelled widely, collecting tunes from the older singers in various communities. Where Grainger differed from other collectors was in his rearrangements of the songs for orchestra rather than more "humble" arrangements. "English Country Garden" is probably his best-known piece and the one most associated with his name. Although he died in 1961, his influence still continues today English band Home Service recorded their own arrangement of Grainger's "A Lincolnshire Posy" suite on their classic 1986 album "Alright Jack," and Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention is a confirmed fan of his work. And now director Peter Duncan has just released a film on (at least part of) Grainger's life, "Passion." This CD is not a direct tie-in to the movie but is an interesting adjunct to it. While his collecting and performing work is well documented, it may be not so well known that Grainger also made a number of recordings during his life. A large number of these were piano rolls. Of late, this has become an excellent method of acquiring examples of artists from the early twentieth century, such as "Jelly Roll" Morton and George Gershwin, playing their music before the phonograph became widely available to the public. The selections on this CD are all taken from Grainger's Duo-Art rolls between 1915 and 1933.
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Extractions: A few years ago we were invited to take part in a weekend festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the School of Music at Salem College was hosting a festival honoring the memory of Percy Grainger. Participants included Frederick Fennell, founder and former director of the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble, a longtime popularizer of Grainger1s compositions; Stewart Manville, archivist of the Percy Grainger Library in White Plains, New York; Nigel Coxe, a concert pianist with an all-Grainger recording among his credits; and Barbara Lister-Sink, also a pianist, and Dean of the Salem College School of Music. Our role was to present a program of some of the folksongs Grainger collected in England during the early 1900s, many of which he subsequently used in his own arrangements and compositions. This recording is an extension of that project. Grainger espoused the cause of English folksong with his characteristic energetic enthusiasm. Along with Frank Kidson and Lucy Broadwood, both folksong collectors and stalwarts of the Folk Song Society, he attended the North Lincolnshire Musical Competition Festival of 1905 in the market town of Brigg. Among the events was a folksong competition won by Joseph Taylor, who was to become the best of Grainger's source singers. Grainger noted a number of songs in Brigg, some of which were published in the next issue of the
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Artifact: Full Record For Grainger Museum dedicated to the Australianborn composer and pianist, percy grainger (1882-1961) . People grainger, percy Aldridge, 1882-1961 Musician, composer; http://www.artifact.ac.uk/displayoai.php?id=5405
AllClassical.org - Playlists 1239 PM, ASV 2117, grainger, percy (after Richard Strauss), Ramble on the last NOTE Shaun talks to pianist Arnaldo Cohen about his favorite music. http://www.allclassical.org/playlists.php?selected_date=2005-05-3
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Extractions: Composer and pianist Born in Melbourne, Grainger was a gay composer and pianist. He was dazzlingly good-looking; both Edvard Grieg and gay American poet Vachel Lindsay lost their hearts to the young man. He is remembered for a number of songs and short instrumental pieces drawing on folk idioms, particularly Country Gardens (1925). He died at White Plains, New York. 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 In 1914 he sailed for America and took up residence, becoming an American citizen after a period in the US army. He toured North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia on several occasions, setting up the Grainger Museum in the grounds of Melbourne University during visits to Australia in the 1930's. He had a musical mind of unusual breadth and vision, with interests spanning the ages from Mediaeval music to the latest twentieth century developments. With Dom Anselm Hughes and Arnold Dolmetsch he made modern transcriptions of early music; in later life he devoted his energies to the design and construction of Free Music machines on which a composer could write his music as graphs on transparent sheets to be performed by the machine free of restrictions on rhythm and pitch.
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Extractions: Percy Grainger was born in Australia, collected regional music in the UK and was active in the United States in the latter part of his life. A concert series will begin an introduction to his works. While his brass band music is famous in Japan, his compositions are not limited to wind instruments but cross a broad range of styles. Through songs and piano works hardly known in Japan, this program will show another fascinating side to the composer. Percy Aldridge Grainger was born in Brighton, a neighboring town of Melbourne in 1882. From the age of six he was taught piano by his mother, which helped to bring his talent to light. At 13, he traveled to Frankfurt with his mother to study piano and composition in earnest. In Frankfurt, he became friends with young composers who had come from the UK to study, and soon joined their group, the "Frankfurt Gang". In 1910 he moved to London where he was active as a concert pianist.
