6 events Coming up
03 Apr 2012
Percy Grainger and the Danish Landscape
Denmark had a formative influence on Percy Grainger, both through his sense of selfdiscovery and also through his growing interest in folk song (especially the work of Evald Tang Kristensen). Grainger's letters and diaries make frequent references...
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Free Public Lecture17 Jun 2012
Percy’s Hardanger fiddle breathes again
Violinist and vocalist, Jenny M. Thomas will perform with composer and pianist Iain Grandage. This concert is a rare opportunity to see Jenny M. Thomas focus on the quiet beauty of Scandinavian music as she collaborates with pianist/composer Iain ...
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Performance10 Sep 2012
Recollections of the House at 7 Cromwell Place by Barry Peter Ould
The house at 7 Cromwell Place, White Plains, NY is nearly 120 years old. Built in 1893 by a descendent of Oliver Cromwell, it became the permanent base for 40 years of the Australian/American composer/pianist Percy Aldridge Grainger. The house alt...
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Free Public Lecture14 Oct 2012
Bent Leather Band and the Children of Grainger - a Grainger Museum concert
The Bent Leather Band presents the concert Children of Grainger – a work exploring Percy Grainger’s free music, life and legacy. Grainger’s free music: ‘music using gliding tones, very small intervals and irregular rhythms’ [Grainger, 1951] is jux...
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Performance12 Nov 2012
6:00–7:00PM
Percy Grainger: Australian Genius of the American Wind Band
Percy Grainger's enthusiasm for unusual sound sources led him to create unique combinations of instruments for his "large room music" pieces of the early part of the twentieth century. His experiments with the medium of the wind band began in Grea...
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Free Public Lecture27 Nov 2012
6:00–7:00PM
Grainger, Melbourne, and the 1890s
Percy Grainger always promoted himself as an Australian. But what did he understand that term to mean? He didn’t live in Australia for very long, only from his birth until he was nearly thirteen. While there is little doubt that those years left t...