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Princes Bridge, Melbourne, designed by John Grainger. Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, south-east of Melbourne.His father, John Grainger, an English-born architect who had emigrated to Australia in 1877, won recognition for his design of the Princes Bridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne; [1] His mother Rose Annie Aldridge was the daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge.
The Warriors: Music to an Imaginary Ballet is an orchestral piece written in the United States by the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger between 1913 and 1916. It is dedicated "For Frederick Delius , in admiration and affection".
The group included H. Balfour Gardiner, Norman O'Neill, Cyril Scott and Roger Quilter, who were all English, and Percy Grainger, who was born in Australia and established himself as a composer in England between 1901 and 1914 before moving to the United States. [2] They remained close friends from their student days onwards. [3]
Grainger thought highly of Deagan, describing their instruments as "marvelously perfected examples of American inventive ingenuity" in the program notes of the piece. [11] Alongside the xylophone and glockenspiel (which by then had cemented their place in the orchestra), Grainger added four novel instruments: a wooden marimba , [ a ] a steel ...
The Grainger Medallion from the International Percy Grainger Society in 2005 for his representation of several of Percy Grainger's works [5] Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to music Award in 2009 [5] 2012 Texas Bandmaster of the Year [3] 2017 Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster [5]
Gershwin-Grainger CD and LP for MCA Classics: "The Legendary Transcriptions of Percy Grainger: Fantasy on George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess ', the solo-piano transcriptions of Gershwin's Love Walked In and The Man I Love, the piano 4-hand version of Embraceable You and the original Gershwin duos of Rhapsody in Blue and Cuban Overture.
Grainger, c. 1910s. The published musical compositions of Percy Grainger (1882–1961) fall into two main categories: (a) original works and (b) folksong settings. There are also numerous unpublished works, sketches and juvenilia. Grainger's compositional career lasted for more than half a century, from the end of the 19th century until the ...
An arrangement by Grainger for two pianos was later published in 1920 after a performance by Leopold and Grainger for the Red Cross on 2 December 1919. [4] The title is a reference to Over the Hills and Far Away by Frederick Delius, who was a close friend of Grainger. [5]