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 "
Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961) grainger, percy (1882 1961) The Australian pianist and composer percy grainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance. http://www.hnh.com/composer/grainger.htm
Extractions: 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.
OUP USA: Percy Grainger OUP Book percy grainger by Mellers, Wilfrid A man of extraordinary charisma, percy grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198162707.html
Extractions: A man of extraordinary charisma, Percy Grainger was at once a legendary virtuoso pianist, a composer of highly original music, an arranger, and a "disher up" of folk music who pierced to the music's heart, and figure of some historical significance in relation to ethnomusicology and music education. A study of the music of this paradoxical figure, this book looks at the musical influence on his compositions of folk-song and of Grieg, and of those apparent polar opposites, Delius and Bach. It examines some of his more significant pieces in detail; considers his work in recreating traditional material and the music of others; sees him as a champion and transcriber of what is now known as Early Music; and looks at his sometimes alarmingly eccentric notions as to music's nature and purpose. Overriding barriers between art, folk, and pop music, Grainger is difficult to categorize, and is, in the history of music, unique.
AbsoluteFacts.nl - Percy Grainger (1882-1961) De pianist en componist percy grainger (18821961) werd geboren te Brighton bij Melbourne in Australië. De moeder van percy was een bekend pianolerares en gaf hem reeds vroeg les. http://www.absofacts.com/componisten/data/graingerpercy.shtml
Extractions: KennisQuiz.nl De pianist en componist Percy Grainger (1882-1961) werd geboren te Brighton bij Melbourne in Australië. De moeder van Percy was een bekend pianolerares en gaf hem reeds vroeg les. Op zijn tiende debuteerde hij, waarna hij als wonderkind tijdens concerten gepresenteerd werd. Percy Grainger studeerde vervolgens in Frankfurt en Berlijn.
Percy Grainger, Biography : Australian Music Centre percy grainger (18821961) the overtly popular, a musical innovator, a virtuoso pianist, a perceptive collector of folksongs (the first major http://www.amcoz.com.au/comp/g/pgrain.htm
Extractions: 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 To a Nordic Princess . His wide-ranging musical output was influenced by his studies of folk music, and featured experimental combinations of traditional tonality with "gliding" intervals, the use of polyrhythm and unusual, even electronic, instruments. As early as 1937, he wrote a quartet for electronic instruments, notating the pitch by zigzags and curves. and rejected common Italian designations of tempi and dynamics.
Percy Aldridge Grainger percy grainger was born in Australia on July 8th, 1882. He studied in Frankfurtbefore beginning a successful career as a concert pianist in England at the http://www.bardic-music.com/pag.htm
Extractions: Percy Aldridge Grainger This Grainger site is still evolving and in time we hope to have the most comprehensive information available on the web about this multi-faceted composer. A new link to the Grainger Museum is now active and visiting here will give you access to many other websites and further information about Grainger. There is also a link to a video store in Canada who has copies of the film PASSION available for sale on either VHS (NTSC format) or DVD (Region 1 format). Click here for details. I would also like to bring your attention to the important news section immediately below as well as details about the forthcoming Adelaide Grainger Festival (October, 2003). A CD containing music to be played during the festival is to be made in June and sold prior to the concerts. Details of the availability of the CD will be posted in due course. IMPORTANT NEWS The Grainger Recording Fund , Lloyds TSB plc., 1 Market Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 HP20 1TD. Account No. 002988138 - Sort Code: 30-90-38 - Swift ID: LOYDGB2L. ADELAIDE GRAINGER FESTIVAL - The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will present a series of concerts featuring Grainger's music in Adelaide, Australia between October 7 - 19th. During this period
Percy Aldridge Grainger percy grainger A Brief Biographical Background Born George percy grainger, grainger was born on 8 July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria. went to Germany with his mother Rose to further his training as a pianist and composer. http://www.bardic-music.com/Pag.htm
Extractions: Percy Aldridge Grainger This Grainger site is still evolving and in time we hope to have the most comprehensive information available on the web about this multi-faceted composer. A new link to the Grainger Museum is now active and visiting here will give you access to many other websites and further information about Grainger. There is also a link to a video store in Canada who has copies of the film PASSION available for sale on either VHS (NTSC format) or DVD (Region 1 format). Click here for details. I would also like to bring your attention to the important news section immediately below as well as details about the forthcoming Adelaide Grainger Festival (October, 2003). A CD containing music to be played during the festival is to be made in June and sold prior to the concerts. Details of the availability of the CD will be posted in due course. IMPORTANT NEWS The Grainger Recording Fund , Lloyds TSB plc., 1 Market Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 HP20 1TD. Account No. 002988138 - Sort Code: 30-90-38 - Swift ID: LOYDGB2L. ADELAIDE GRAINGER FESTIVAL - The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will present a series of concerts featuring Grainger's music in Adelaide, Australia between October 7 - 19th. During this period
Biography Of Classical Pianist, Percy Grainger Biography of classical pianist, percy grainger. Find percy grainger on LP; findpercy grainger on CD. Find books about classical pianist, percy grainger. http://www.webcom.com/cyteen/links/grainger.html
Extractions: Every half century tends to precipitate a handful of musicians whose true talents are largely misunderstood during their lifetimes and whose creative output lies fallow when they are gone. Percy Grainger was such a casualty. As a virtuoso pianist he was one of the most eagerly sought and highly paid for much of his life, yet is now known that not only did he dislike the piano as musical instrument and later bitterly regretted having written for it but also that the idea of public performances stirred in him an almost uncontrollable terror. He felt trapped whichever way he turned and the piano became for him a symbol of all that robbed him of the time he would have preferred to have spent composing or in the company of composer friends. At the same time, his reputation as a purely creative artist became fixed in the minds of the public as that of a composer of keyboard triflesa verdict that was as untrue as it was also tragically unjust. Yet despite all this, Grainger's legacy of piano music is as rich in and as typical of his genius as are his compositions for other media. In his childhood, Grainger's mother would sing him the songs of Stephen C. Foster 'This exquisite American genius one of the most tender, touching and subtle melodists and poets of all time; a mystic dreamer no less than a whimsical humorist.' In 1913, Grainger began a vocal and orchestral composition which at its final scoring of 1931 he entitled
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Extractions: Pronunciation Key Grainger, Percy Aldridge , 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.
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Extractions: Grainger, Percy Aldridge 1882-1961, 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.
Komponisten - Grainger, Percy percy grainger b. Brighton, Melbourne 8.7.1882, d. White Plains, NY 20.2.1961 Hadgrainger never existed the world as a concert pianist before settling http://www.schott-english.com/nocache/smi_en/autoren/KomponistenAZ/2,091133f48af
Extractions: D Text search Product search Detailed search Shop Sheet music Books CDs Multimedia ... The A - Z of Composers Grainger, Percy Aldridge Percy Grainger b. Brighton, Melbourne 8.7.1882, d. White Plains, NY 20.2.1961 Had Grainger never existed it would be necessary to invent him - but probably impossible. Truly a twentieth-century radical, he flaunted an originality that even today deserves greater recognition. Pupil of Busoni, friend of Grieg and Delius, he toured the world as a concert pianist before settling in the United States. His first love was folksong, yet his experiments in sonority, his attempts to devise a 'free music' liberated from conventional restraints of rhythm and melody, and his interests in oriental and medieval music show a mind ranging further afield than the pleasures of 'Country Gardens' and 'Molly on the Shore' - "my fripperies" as he called them. Works with Schott see: "Music of our Time" - Catalogue For more information on the music of Percy Aldridge Grainger and for details of pieces not published by Schott, please visit the Bardic Edition website www.bardic-music.com
Extractions: Pronunciation Key Grainger, Percy Aldridge , 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.
Grainger Museum - Rose Grainger successful public appearances as a pianist, Rose took In Frankfurt she supportedherself and percy by giving English lessons; John grainger, from 1897 http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/grainger/percy/rose.html
Extractions: Percy His family John Ella ... His circle by Dr Kay Dreyfus Rosa (Rose) Annie Grainger (née Aldridge) was born at Adelaide, South Australia, on 3 July 1861, the eigth child and third daughter of George Aldridge and Sarah Jane Aldridge (née Grant). Both parents had come to Australia from Kent in England. For the first nineteen years of her life, Rose lived at the family home. On 1 October 1880 she married John Harry Grainger , English-born architect and civil engineer, and moved to Melbourne. The marriage was not a happy one. In September 1890 John Grainger returned home to England on a visit. Though he was back in Australia by the end of the year, he did not rejoin his family, though they met occasionally and continued to correspond through the years to John's death in 1917. For Rose, the major event of her marriage was the birth of her son and only child, George Percy Grainger, on 8 July 1882. Rose adored her son, and, from the time of her husband's departure in 1890 to the time of her own death in 1922, was his sole companion. He was the central focus of her attention: she shared his life, his friends, his travels and his interests. More than that, though, she believed unswervingly in his genius and devoted her life's energies to its development and recognition. The boy showed early and precocious talent both in music and in painting, his earliest musical studies proceeding under his mother's supervision; Rose was herself an accomplished pianist. Indeed, as Percy had only three months' formal schooling, at the Misses Turner's Preparatory School for Boys in Caroline Street, South Yarra, probably in 1892 or 1893, Rose was responsible for his general education as well.
Grainger Museum - Grainger As Artist overshadowed the talents of this pianistic giant. percy grainger'sfame began with his extraordinary gift as a virtuoso pianist. 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.
Biography Percy Grainger (1882-1961) At the age of ten percy studied harmony and piano with a German pianist named Louis Itwas through Pabst that grainger first heard and studied the music of http://home.hetnet.nl/~percygrainger/biografie1-gb.htm
Extractions: Percy Aldridge Grainger (born July 8, 1882 as George Percy Grainger) came from the raw and vigorous frontier world of nineteenth-century Brighton, Melbourne, Australia. He was the only child of John Harry Grainger, an architect from London, and Rose Annie Aldridge, the eighth child of a hotelkeeper's family in Adelaide, South Australia. His public education lasted less than three months. His classmates were cruel and ridiculed him and his appearance. Once he watched them torture a helpless animal. He refused to return to school, and his mother, Rose, assumed responsibility for his general education. In addition to studying English, foreign languages, history, art, and mathematics, Percy practised the piano for two hours every day with his mother sitting by his side. The regimen began when he was five years old and lasted until he was ten. John Grainger was a dignified and cultured man and respected as an architect. He loved music and in his spare time considered himself a painter. He was also an alcoholic. This condition coupled with Rose's independence of spirit, resulted in many violent arguments. On one occasion Rose chased her husband from the house with a horsewhip. Their superficially respectable marriage was destroyed when Rose discovered that she contracted syphilis from John. In 1891 he was advised to move to London for his health and when he did he left his family behind. The bond between the mother and
Extractions: This generous helping of the witty and charming music of Percy Grainger has been lovingly put together by his compatriot, the Australian pianist Penelope Thwaites, and excellent playing it all is too. One has this image from Ken Russells film of the wacky Grainger pushing Deliuss bathchair downhill at breakneck speed or charging through the house to catch successfully a tennis ball he has just thrown over the roof from the back to the front. Occasionally this music brings such images to mind. But he was more than just dotty. The very first track
Face To Face With Percy Grainger Bo Holton (right), conductor of the Danish vocal ensemble Musica Ficta, has beena longtime admirer of Australian composer and pianist, percy grainger. http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/1997/241/facetofacewithpercyg
Extractions: with Percy Grainger Bo Holton (right), conductor of the Danish vocal ensemble Musica Ficta , has been a long-time admirer of Australian composer and pianist, Percy Grainger. However, he was in for a surprise when Musica Ficta visited Melbourne to perform in the Melbourne Festival and The Many Faces of Percy Grainger program. He discovered that his great aunt, Karen Holton, had been a 'sweetheart' of Grainger's and that she and Percy had exchanged hundreds of letters, now in safe keeping at the University's Grainger Museum. Assistant Curator of the Grainger Museum, Mr Alessandro Servadei (left), took Mr Holton on a tour of the Museum which was described this week by British composer, Professor Gavin Bryars, as "the University's hidden gem". However, University of Melbourne Cultural Officer, Ms Naomi Cass, says that with the number of visitors from the media and the arts who have visited the Grainger Museum this week, the 'gem' is no longer 'hidden'. Back to the top
Michael Kieran Harvey Meets Percy Grainger the opportunity to hear Kieran Harvey perform a composition by early 20th centuryAustralian composer, pianist and exceptional individual, percy grainger. http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/1997/238/michaelkieranharveym
Extractions: 10 October 1997 Vol 6 No 38 Brilliant young Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey is usually associated with the performance of avant garde Australian music. But later this month as part of the Melbourne Festival, the University of Melbourne will give music lovers the opportunity to hear Kieran Harvey perform a composition by early 20th century Australian composer, pianist and exceptional individual, Percy Grainger. Michael Kieran Harvey will join an international line-up of performers and scholars in The Many Faces of Percy Grainger program - 24-27 October. The program includes several free events and no performance will cost more than $15. Last week, Kieran Harvey visited the University's Grainger Museum as a tribute to Percy Grainger, whose talent is under-recognised in Australia. The Museum, designed by Percy Grainger, is a rich collection of Grainger music, musical instruments and paraphernalia reflecting all aspects of Grainger's life. It includes amazing free music machines and eccentric towelling clothing, all of which he designed. Grainger's Butterfly Piano caught Kieran Harvey's eye during his visit. Custom-built and extensively modified in the early 1950s for Grainger's free music experiments, the piano was especially tuned by the composer in '6th tones' which, because they sound much closer together than those on a traditional piano keyboard, enable the performer to produce a gliding sound.
