Becoming A Solo Pianist, Part One Any aspiring young pianist who wants to become a soloist or indeed, a virtuoso -has 1882, grainger, percy, Australia. 1882, Kodály, Zoltán, Hungary http://www.musicteachermag.com/solopianist_partone.htm
Extractions: Any aspiring young pianist who wants to become a soloist - or indeed, a virtuoso - has only a few short years to prepare for a career in music. At the tertiary level, there is only time to study, in depth, a handful of pieces. That handful should be carefully selected, as their choice often sets the scene for the future. This series is not only aimed at those who wish to pursue a career in music; in addition to being a guide for teachers it will also interest anyone who wishes to steadily and logically improve their playing. The levels of difficulty begin from intermediate or matriculation standard and, ultimately, reach the virtuoso rank. Student pianists and teachers will discover works they may not have known existed; and repertoire that will bring enjoyment and satisfaction through the years to come. There are hundreds of listed works to choose from. Here, against each work, you will also see the work's suggested level of difficulty. You choose the type of music you will enjoy most - first, from the list of composers, and then from the level you feel is appropriate. As you become more proficient, you move to higher levels and the music of other composers.
Detailed Classical CD Information With Streaming Audio Samples When the young percy grainger enrolled at Dr Hochs Conservatoire in He hadof course already appeared in his native homeland as a pianist and won http://www.chandos.net/CD_Notes.asp?CNumber=CHAN 9895
CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography Of Percy Grainger Find the music of percy grainger in the Archives. See also the Index of Biographiesand the Australianborn composer and pianist (Amer. cit. 1918). http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/grainger.html
Extractions: 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
Castle Classics Grainger, Percy (American/Australian 1882-1961) P grainger; E Grieg At Twilight Choral Music by percy grainger, P grainger; Hamelin s pleasure in this repertoire - challenging to the pianist, http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/Grainger__Percy__American_Australian_1
Oxford University Press: Percy Grainger: Wilfrid Mellers percy grainger. Wilfrid Mellers. bookshot Add to Cart percy grainger was atonce a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryWestern/Contempo
The Ensemble Sospeso - Percy Grainger percy grainger was born in Australia on July 8th, 1882. before beginning asuccessful career as a concert pianist in England at the turn of the century. http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/grainger.html
Extractions: Sospeso presents the Australian composer Percy Grainger's Work for Four Theremins at the July 19 Lincoln Center Festival 2000 theremin concert with grand thereminist Lydia Kavina 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 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 1930s. 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.
Jacques-Emile Blanche's Percy Grainger percy grainger 1906 JacquesEmile Blanche French painter 18611942 percy grainger (18821961), a famous pianist, composer and conductor, http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Jacques-Emile_Blanche/Percy_Grainger.htm
Extractions: The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires Percy Grainger (18821961), a famous pianist, composer and conductor, was born in Australia and later gained American citizenship. From 1901, he was based in London, where he became popular at Edwardian salons because of his exceptional good looks (Blanche portrayed his thick curly, reddish blond hair and piercing blue eyes) and his ability to enliven events with his effervescent high spirits and outrageous behaviour. He made extensive tours with the Australian contralto Ada Crossley in 1903 and 1908, and was a friend of Nellie Melba. He moved to America in 1914. Best known for lighter works such as Country Gardens, he was also a pioneer of electronic music and the ?rst Australian composer to include Asian in?uences within his compositions. Blanche painted Grainger, aged 24, at the height of his London success. He had just started work on collecting and arranging English folk songs, pioneering the use of the Edison wax cylinder recorder. 1906 was also the year that Grainger met Edvard Grieg, who greatly admired his playing. On 14 June 1906, the BritishAustralasian reported proudly of the Australian musician: Mr. Percy Graingers settings of three old Lincolnshire songs. . . have been most favourably received in all quarters. . . This evening Mr. Grainger is playing at Mrs. Charles Hunters At Home, and tomorrow at Mrs. Wodehouses musical evening at 21, Sloane-gardens, S.W.M. Jacques Blanche, the well-known French artist, is painting Mr. Graingers portrait.
MMD Archives: Percy Grainger Movie, "Passion" An article entitled percy grainger Movie, Passion by Terry Smythe, appearing in in the movie related to grainger s talent as a pianist and composer. http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200106/2001.06.15.05.html
Extractions: Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961) was one of Australia's most exotic and interesting musical figures. An excellent concert pianist, composer, collector of English folk songs, a purveyor of all things creative and imaginative in the sphere of modern life and music, and an inventor of the free music machine . He was a man far ahead of his time. His circle consisted of a number of significant Scandinavian and English composers such as Edvard Grieg, Delius and the esotericist Cyril Scott. Percy Grainger was born on the 8th July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria and spent his early period in Australia. He moved to London with his mother and lived there from 1901 to 1914. He then moved to America, became and American citizen, and lived there for the rest of his life. In 1928 he married an Swedish artist Ella Strom. He developed a friendship with the South Australian composer Alexander Burnard (1900 - 1971) and his wife Phyllis, visiting them when he and his wife were in the country. We present for you here all the letters and cards sent by the Graingers to the Burnards from 1932 to 1956. For a more substantial biographical sketch on Percy Grainger see the Grainger Museum Website's piece entitled "Percy Grainger: A Brief Biographical Background".
Extractions: News and Events NDSU College of AHSS Fine Arts Music Department ... News and Events News and Events. NDSU Music presents "A Salute to Percy Grainger" April 21, 2005 - NDSU Music proudly presents A Salute to Percy Grainger on Sunday, May 1 at 2:00 pm in Festival Concert Hall. The program will feature guest conductor Joseph Kreines and choral and instrumental music written by composer Percy Grainger. Virtuoso pianist, folk song collector, and pioneer in electronic music, Percy Grainger left behind an extraordinary legacy when he died in 1961. Born in Australia, Grainger began taking piano lessons at an early age and, thanks to his mother's strict rules about practice, developed a reputation as a pianist at the age of twelve. In the early 1900s, Grainger befriended Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, whose love of national music inspired Grainger to look closely at English folk music. With the aid of a phonograph, he would record folk-singers in their environment and then create arrangements such as Country Gardens . This friendship with Grieg would also allow Grainger to become the greatest interpreter of Grieg's well-known Piano Concerto Grainger worked on the concept of Free Music: music not limited to time or pitch intervals. Towards the end of his life, he created a number of Free Music machines out of industrial waste and items capable of 'non-harmony' and 'gliding tones.' For example, a broken 'C' on his harmonium brought about the piece The Immovable Do in 1933.
Composer.html Among his friends, percy grainger counted Edvard Grieg as one of the closest . At that time he was making a lucrative career as a concertpianist, http://courses.wcupa.edu/frichmon/mue332/fall2001/holmbergmatt/composer.html
Extractions: Percy Grainger was born on July 8, 1882 in Brighton, Australia. After studying piano in Frankfurt, Germany, Grainger moved to London and began a career as a composer-pianist. In 1915, he moved to the United States of America and became an American citizen in 1918. Grainger was an eccentric figure who was know to compose pieces that did not conform to conventional form or instrumentation. Some of his best known short pieces include Shepherd's Hey and Handel in the Strand , but he also composed larger pieces such as The Warriors Many of Mr. Grainger's works are composed for piano or piano trios and quartets, but as mentioned before, he composed for combinations of instruments that were unusual for the time. Pieces were written for large wind ensembles and double chorus and drums. There exist many arrangements of Grainger's music written for various groupings of instruments, often Percy would write arrangements of his own music. Country Gardens is no exception. It is found in many arrangements ranging from two to eight hands piano, and most commonly heard in the wind ensemble version. Among his friends, Percy Grainger counted Edvard Grieg as one of the closest. It was through this friendship that Grainger's interest in folk music grew. Much like Vaughan Williams, Grainger traveled around England and transcribed songs from the folk singers he met. Many of his shorter, more well know pieces are derived from this quest to preserve folk music.
Urban Cinefile Feature percy grainger (1882 1961), the eccentric but brilliant composer / pianist fromMelbourne, Australia lived on the edge. Not content to try and change the http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=2352&s=Features
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
Extractions: Penny's Grainger Recordings BIOGRAPHY Since her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has established an international reputation as a soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. As concerto soloist she has performed with the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, City of London and BBC Concert Orchestra in the UK, and with leading orchestras in Australia and America. Her solo recitals in a wide repertoire have drawn the highest praise. She is known world-wide as a leading exponent of the music of Percy Grainger, her many recordings - some 250 tracks covering his solo piano, chamber and orchestral works. In October 2003 she was the featured soloist in a 2-week Grainger Festival with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, broadcast nationwide. Penelope was Artistic Director of the 1998 London Grainger Event and was awarded the International Grainger Society's Medallion in 1991. She is a regular broadcaster as pianist, presenter and critic, ranging from Beethoven to Bernard Shaw. Her compositions include the West End musical
The Free Music Machine grainger a virtuoso pianist and pupil of Busoni, had been developing his ideaof free percy grainger s description of Free Music. December 6th, 1938 http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/free_music_machine/
Extractions: Percy Grainger The 'Free Music Machine' was created by musician and singer Burnett Cross and the Australian composer Percy Grainger. Grainger a virtuoso Pianist and pupil of Busoni, had been developing his idea of "free music" since 1900: based on eighth tones and complete rhythmic freedom and unconventionally notated on graph paper. Grainger had experimented using collections of Theremins and changing speeds of recorded sounds on phonograph disks and eventually developed his own instruments. Graingers experiments with random music composition predated those of John Cage by 30 years with "Random Round" written in the 1920's. Graingers first experiments used a Pianola "player piano" controlling three Solovoxes by means of strings atached to the Pianola's keys, this combintaion was abandoned as it was not possible to create a continuous glissando effect from the Pianola. Grainger started work on a more elaborate but eccentric machine in collaboration with Burnett Cross and his wife, Ella Grainger. The Free Music Machine was a machine that controlled the pitch, volume and timbre of eight oscillators.Two large rollers fed four sets of paper rolls over a set of mechanical arms that rolled over the cut contours of the paper and controlled the various aspects of the oscillators.
PERCY GRAINGER COLLECTION percy grainger (18821962), an Australian-born pianist and composer, resided inWhite Plains for many years. He was best-known for his folksong settings http://www.westchesterlibraries.org/newsandevents/collections/percy.html
Langdon Jones - Grainger, Folk Songs percy grainger is seen by many people as essentially a composer of trivial, And for him, a pianist was a tunedhammer-string-player . http://www.langdonjones.com/graing.html
Extractions: Percy Grainger Folk Song Settings Percy Grainger is seen by many people as essentially a composer of trivial, inconsequential pieces. However, although he was always a miniaturist, many of his works transcend their form. He was also prepared to go in new directions, and composed much experimental music, including music which used microtones, and one piece written for a group of theremins, which he arranged for strings, written entirely in glissandos. He was a person who raised eccentricity to an art form, and his biography, by John Bird, reads like a work of fiction. He was, among other things, a racialist, but typically, took this so far it became totally removed from the real world, and incidentally revealed the ludicrousness at the heart of racialism. He once refused to sign a lucrative contract, because he didn't trust the other party, who had brown eyes! He tried to expunge his language of all Mediterranean influence, and in the end his communications became so obtuse that his letters need to be translated. In his scores, there are no Italian words - you don't find 'crescendo', you find 'louden' or 'louden lots'. He didn't arrange works, they were 'dished up'. And for him, a pianist was a 'tuned-hammer-string-player'. The excerpt is from a piano duet, a little-known arrangement of a Faroe Island tune, 'Let's Dance Gay in Green Meadows'. Indeed, it was omitted from a recent edition of the 'complete' piano music. The same tune occurs in Nielsen's 'An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands'. The tuned-hammer-string-players are Benjamin Britten and Viola Tunnard. The CD is from London, is entitled 'Salute to Percy Grainger', and contains a wide selection of songs, orchestral pieces and choral arrangements. The number is 425 159-2 LM.
Musical Gardens MUSIC grainger Country Gardens, performed by pianist Robert Silverman Marquis FLAXMAN percy grainger s Country Gardens. The orchestral version was http://www.compactdiscoveries.com/CompactDiscoveriesScripts/45MusicalGardens.htm
Extractions: "Musical Gardens" MUSIC: William Bolcolm: Old Adam from The Garden of Eden, performed by Rebecca Penneys on the piano [Fleur de Son FDS 57956, track 14] under the following: FLAXMAN: Welcome to Compact Discoveries . I'm your guide, Fred Flaxman. The music in the background is Old Adam from " The Garden of Eden" by the American composer William Bolcolm. It is played by pianist Rebecca Penneys. I thought it was just the right piece to begin this hour devoted to "Musical Gardens." After all, it was the very first garden, wasn't it? Let's listen to the rest of this composition. I think you'll find it a compact discovery! MUSIC: up until the end of the above piece FLAXMAN: From William Bolcolm's happy rendition of Old Adam in the Garden of Eden we go to Giacomo Puccini's [JAH-ko-mo Pu-CHEE-nee'z] melancholy Chrysanthemums in Compact Discoveries "Musical Gardens." Chrysanthemums was written in 1890 for string quartet, an elegy for the Duke of Aosta [Ah-OH-stah]. Although it's a brief work, it is charged with emotional intensity. Four years later the same musical theme served Puccini to mark the pathos of Manon's imprisonment and transportation in his opera
Archives Hub: Results percy grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on 8 July 1882. He studied inFrankfurt before becoming a successful concert pianist in England at the start http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03072201.html
Extractions: Language : Finding aid written in English . The Lincolnshire Folk Archive was established in the early 1960s at Pilgrim College, Boston to preserve folk songs from Lincolnshire and South Humberside. The archive preserved and built upon the early recording activities of Percy Grainger (1882-1961). Patrick O'Shaughnessy of Pilgrim College, who edited and wrote about Lincolnshire folksong, was central to the collection's development and publicity. The archive contains no material dated post-1991. It was transferred to The University of Nottingham's Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections in 1993. Pilgrim College, Fydell House, Boston was founded in 1945 and for many years has been part of The University of Nottingham's School of Continuing Education. It is supported by Boston Borough Council, Boston Preservation Trust, Lincolnshire County Council and the East Midlands District of the Workers' Educational Association. It provides open studies, certificate, part-time degree, and postgraduate courses as well as a variety of societies and clubs.
Joseph Taylor percy grainger, the Australian pianist, composer and folk song collector, All in all, percy grainger noted or recorded 28 songs from Joseph Taylor http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/joseph.taylor/
Extractions: @import url(/~zierke/css/folk.css); @import url(local.css); Reinhard Zierke's (Mostly) English Folk Music Website English Folk Music Steve Ashley ... English Folk Music Joseph Taylor Joseph Taylor of Saxby-All Saints, Lincolnshire - b. 1832 approximately - was considered by Percy Grainger, the Australian pianist, composer and folk song collector, to be the finest folk singer that he had the opportunity to record. The two men first met in April 1905 where Percy Grainger travelled to the small market town of Brigg Four competitors duly entered and the first prize of 10 shillings and sixpence was won by Joseph Taylor, age 72, with his song Creeping Jane ; second prize (5 shillings) was won by 85-year old Mr W. Hilton of Keelby with Come All You Merry Ploughboys , while third prize (two shillings and sixpence) was carried off by Dean Robinson of Scawby with T'owd Yowe Wi' One Horn Grainger and his companion Lucy Broadwood noted eight other songs on that occasion, including two short verses of Brigg Fair from Joseph Taylor, being all that the singer could recall. Grainger's handwritten notation of both
Richard And John CONTIGUGLIA, Duo Pianists - Biography a solopiano recital by the legendary pianist-composer, percy grainger.Richard and John Contiguglia with percy grainger Thus began an association with http://www.duopianistscontiguglia.com/bio.htm
Extractions: R ichard and John Contiguglia are identical twins who have collaborated as a piano duo since they were five years old. Throughout their career critics have responded in superlatives to their unique musical partnership. Following the release of their historic recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, transcribed for two pianos by Franz Liszt, now a collector's item, critic Edward Tatnall Canby called the Contiguglias "the most profoundly musical pair of piano virtuosi of this century." Records and Recording proclaimed that "they have given the two-piano medium a whole new dimension. The Contiguglias stand apart in a lofty world of their own, unrivaled and supreme." Byron Belt, for Newhouse News Service, called the Contiguglias "foremost among today's duo-pianists." Richard and John were born of Italian immigrant parents in Auburn, NY, the last children, and second set of twins, in a family of seven children. Without a doubt, the most extraordinary musical event of the twins' youth was a performance in their home town, when they were 12 years old, of a group of two-piano pieces in the middle of a solo-piano recital by the legendary pianist-composer, Percy Grainger. Lincolnshire Posy, Hill Song No. 1
