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2 unusual facts about Percy Grainger


Katharine Parker

She travelled to London to study with Percy Grainger, who had very high praise for her work and kept in touch with her for many years.

Rufford Abbey

Percy Grainger also transcribed "Rufford Park Poachers" in the third movement of his suite, "Lincolnshire Posy."


Dennis Ferry

Morning Song (Kellaway) for brass quintet is published by Editions Bim and his brass quintet version of Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy is published by Solid Brass Music.

Don Watson

In addition to regular books, articles and essays, in recent years he has also written feature films, including The Man Who Sued God, starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and Passion, a film about Percy Grainger starring Richard Roxburgh.

Green Bushes

Green Bushes is an English folk song (Roud #1040, Laws P2) which is featured in the second movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite, in Percy Grainger's Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folksong), and in George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow.

The melody is very similar to that of the Lost Lady Found movement of Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, and to The Cutty Wren.

Julia Culp

Before long, she was performing all over Europe and America, sharing the stage with such notable composers, conductors and singers as Edvard Grieg, Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns, Enrico Caruso, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Enrique Granados and Thomas Beecham.

Philip Napier Miles

They include autograph scores, printed works, and correspondence (e.g. with Falla), as well as signed copies of works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Grainger and John Stainer.

The Philharmonic Winds

The wind orchestra is also well-versed in a variety of musical styles, having explored the lush and humorous music of Percy Grainger, the genius of Mozart and Varèse, jazz standards in "All That Jazz", authentic "Sounds of Japan", and an "Absoluut Dutch" affair with highly acclaimed composer, Johan de Meij.

West Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Among notable soloists who have performed with the orchestra are Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Percy Grainger, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Yuri Rozum performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff with the orchestra on May 5, 2007.


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