61. 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

Penelope Thwaites Pianist and Composer thwaites.jackson@virgin.net BIOGRAPHY CATALOGUE RECORDING ... CONTACTS Follow these links to other pages about Penelope Thwaites: AMC www.amcoz.com.au ABC www.abc.net.au Bardic www.bardic-music.com 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

62. Pageg9.htm he gained much fame as a concert pianist and composer. during these years in Londonthat grainger befriended the love of national music inspired percy to study http://www.waterloo.k12.wi.us/staff/jothen/donepgs/pageg9.htm

PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER Back to Shepherd's Hey Percy Grainger was born in Brighton, Australia near Melbourne on July 8, 1882. His father was an architect who designed the Princes Bridge in Melbourne. When he was twelve, he made his first concert tour. It was obvious that he had musical talent, so in 1895 he and his mother moved to Germany where he attended Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatoire. In 1901 they moved on to London where he gained much fame as a concert pianist and composer. It was during these years in London that Grainger befriended the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg , whose love of national music inspired Percy to study English folk music. Using a phonograph, Percy was the first collector of English folk songs. He collected over 500 examples to form the basis of his British Folk Music Setting, which includes "Country Gardens" and "Shepherd's Hey". A month after World War I broke out he and his mother moved to America where he became a US citizen and married a Swedish poet named Ella Viola Strom. At the end of a busy and hectic life, Grainger died at White Plains, New York on February 20, 1961 and is buried in Adelaide, South Australia. Grainger in his early years regarded himself primarily as a choral composer, creating arrangements of fold music. Later however, he composed and arranged his most famous works for wind band, including the Lincolnshire Posy and The Warriors.

63. Philwinds: Composers' Corner: Percy Aldridge Grainger The Australian percy Aldridge grainger was a the highly experimental to the overtlypopular, a musical innovator, a virtuoso pianist, a perceptive http://www.philharmonicwinds.org/composer_grainger.htm

Percy Aldridge GRAINGER Irish Tune from County Derry Molly on the Shore Childrenfs March gOver the Hills and Far Awayh Colonial Song ... Lincolnshire Posy The Australian Percy Aldridge Grainger was a musician of unusual breadth of vision, a composer of a broad spectrum of works from the highly experimental to the overtly popular, a musical innovator, a virtuoso pianist, a perceptive collector of folksongs (the first major collector in Britain to use recording techniques), an arranger of other people's music from Mediaeval times to the twentieth century and a pioneer in what he termed "free music". With every activity he touched he wished to involve himself to his fullest capacity, be it in studying the technical side of making piano rolls so that he could edit his own recordings, or dressing up as a South Sea islander to learn more of their culture, or constructing his own machines on which he could realize the flights of his musical fancy direct, free from conventional restrictions on rhythm and pitch. Such are the many talents of this fascinating man that it has taken the energies of many writers to begin to build up a total picture of his musical achievements. Conscious of the way his name seemed always to be linked with folksong, Grainger was often at pains to emphasize what he regarded as his more important work: his original compositions using entirely his own ideas. For us who wish to perform and hear his music, this is too narrow a limitation, for Grainger is not just a composer, he is the door to a vast musical world suffused with his own vital influence. His scholarly attitude, his love of all kinds of music and his refreshing desire to become involved in all things has left us a legacy of music which includes experimental pieces, original works, folk settings and a considerable number of transcriptions and free arrangements of other composers that he imbued with his own special brand of musical magic.

64. Langdon Jones - Grainger, Folk Songs And for him, a pianist was a tunedhammer-string-player . The CD is from London,is entitled Salute to percy grainger , and contains a wide selection of songs http://www.langdonjones.com/graing.html

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.

65. JP Sousa Australian born composer and pianist, percy A. grainger became anAmerican citizen in 1918. He collected and edited British folk http://www.cardinalband.org/index_files/page0024.html

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66. ARTS (Music & Voice) - Percy Grainger ARTS (Music Voice) percy grainger. oncert pianist and composer bornin Melbourne on 8th July, 1882. In 1895 he moved to Germany http://www.dinkumaussies.com/ARTS (Music & Voice)/Percy Grainger.htm

Percy Grainger oncert pianist and composer born in Melbourne on 8th July, 1882. I n 1895 he moved to Germany to study before moving to America. I n 1921 he became a US citizen, a la Rupert Murdoch G rainger composed and recorded folk music arrangements for the piano until his death in 1961. I n 1999 a film depicting his life was released. feedback to Webmaster

67. Stadtkapelle Wertingen V2.0 Die Bläserphilharmonie Wertingen Translate this page Prof. Tomislaw Baynov, pianist - Trossingen. Karl Geroldinger, Dirigent - Linz/Österreich. Ben/Iwai,MAS QUE NADA. grainger,percy, PRÄLUDIUM IM DORISCHEN MODUS. http://www.stakawertingen.de/blaeserphilharmonie.htm

Die Bläserphilharmonie Wertingen Die Bläserphilharmonie beim Konzert im Kursaal in Meran, anlässlich des 15. Landesmusikfestes im Oktober 2000 Die Besetzung Stimmen zur Bläserphilharmonie Repertoire Künstlerische Leitung: Manfred Lipp Das Sinfonisches Blasorchester der Stadtkapelle Wertingen Die Bläserphilharmonie Wertingen hat sich durch ihre besonderen Aktivitäten einen ausgezeichneten Ruf erworben. Konzertprogramme aus Werken großer Meister und die Zusammenarbeit mit bekannten Gastdirigenten, Komponisten und Solisten erweitern den künstlerischen Horizont und prägen den Musizierstil des Klangkörpers. Konzentration beim Wettbewerb: Friederike Dirr streicht das Xylophon bei dem Titel Gloriosa in Sonthofen Internationale Begegnungen, Erfolge und stetige Entwicklung Seit 25 Jahren erweitert der ständige künstlerische Leiter Manfred-Andreas Lipp das Repertoire um neue, innovative Musik. Bearbeitungen aller Musikepochen bereichern die Musikpalette und die Arbeit der motivierten Musiker der Bläserphilharmonie Wertingen. Internationale Gastspiele, Erfolge bei hochkarätigen Wettbewerben, Rundfunkproduktionen und ein Unterhaltungsprogramm aus beliebten Meisterwerken begeistern seit vielen Jahren ein großes Publikum.

68. NPR : Performance Today For Tuesday, October 15, 1996 Two selections from Volume One of the newlyreleased percy grainger Edition RichardHickox conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a . pianist ALDO CICCOLINI. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=15-Oct-1996

69. Grieg Society at the friendship the Norwegian composer enjoyed near the end of his life withthe Australianborn, but London-based pianist and composer percy grainger. http://griegforum.no/griegsociety/default.asp?kat=365&id=1394&sp=1

70.  Percy Grainger, Pleasant & Delightful: Percy Grainger Plays Folk Songs Born in Victoria, Australia in 1882, percy grainger was a very influential folksong Thoughan accomplished pianist by the age of twelve, it was not until his http://www.greenmanreview.com/percy_grainger.html

Percy Grainger, (Larrikin, 1999) Born in Victoria, Australia in 1882, Percy Grainger was a very influential folk-song collector, whose classical arrangements of the songs he found are still used and admired today. Though an accomplished pianist by the age of twelve, it was not until his family relocated to London and his friendship with composers such as Grieg and Delius developed, that he began to seriously investigate the traditional music of the UK and Europe. Following the path of Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles et al, he travelled widely, collecting tunes from the older singers in various communities. Where Grainger differed from other collectors was in his rearrangements of the songs for orchestra rather than more "humble" arrangements. "English Country Garden" is probably his best-known piece and the one most associated with his name. Although he died in 1961, his influence still continues today English band Home Service recorded their own arrangement of Grainger's "A Lincolnshire Posy" suite on their classic 1986 album "Alright Jack," and Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention is a confirmed fan of his work. And now director Peter Duncan has just released a film on (at least part of) Grainger's life, "Passion." This CD is not a direct tie-in to the movie but is an interesting adjunct to it. While his collecting and performing work is well documented, it may be not so well known that Grainger also made a number of recordings during his life. A large number of these were piano rolls. Of late, this has become an excellent method of acquiring examples of artists from the early twentieth century, such as "Jelly Roll" Morton and George Gershwin, playing their music before the phonograph became widely available to the public. The selections on this CD are all taken from Grainger's Duo-Art rolls between 1915 and 1933.

71. Percy Grainger: FOOTAGE OF percy grainger PLAYING COUNTRY GARDENS ON PIANO BARRY OULD, HISTORIANgrainger was one of He had to earn his living as a pianist because he http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1041034.htm

George Negus Tonight history Transcripts :: Percy Grainger Print Email Percy Grainger Broadcast 6.30pm on 09/02/2004 Percy Grainger Percy Grainger, made famous by 'Country Gardens', comes to loath it because no one pays attention to what he thought was his more important work. This story fills the screen with images and sounds of the life of a one-hit wonder of the early 1900s. GEORGE NEGUS: In the musical world, our own Percy Grainger was one of the most celebrated pianists of his generation. He enjoyed spectacular success in the UK and the US. And his umpteen compositions included the likes of the famous 'Country Gardens' - probably best known these days because it's used to sell, of all things, frozen vegies. Folk song collector, electronic music pioneer, sexual liberationist and fitness fanatic, Sir Percy, one of the country's genuine one-offs, died in 1961. FOOTAGE OF PERCY GRAINGER PLAYING 'COUNTRY GARDENS' ON PIANO BARRY OULD, HISTORIAN: Grainger was one of the foremost concert pianists of the 20th century. He had to earn his living as a pianist because he had an ill mother. She had syphilis and she became very ill at times. And he...he...he promised her that he'd look after her. And, of course, he came to fame through a little piece he'd been given in 1908 called 'Country Gardens'. He was a musical pioneer in the art of collecting folk songs. WARREN BURT, COMPOSER: He did this all over the world, not just in northern Europe. He also went to New Zealand, through the Pacific. I believe there were trips to the remoter places of North America. So he was very involved in collecting folk songs from many places, what we now call a sensibility of world music.

72. The Percy Grainger Composition Prize - The Douglas Lilburn Project . Public Radi Composition Prize While visiting New Zealand in 1935 the eminent composerpianist,percy grainger, announced a prize for an original New Zealand composition. http://www.southwest.org.nz/productions/dl/percyGrainger.htm

Info Image Audio Back Feedback SouthWest Help The Percy Grainger Composition Prize While visiting New Zealand in 1935 the eminent composer-pianist, Percy Grainger, announced a prize for an original New Zealand composition. Douglas won this prize with his tone poem for orchestra called Forest . In November 1935 Mr. Grainger recorded a brief talk SA/NTK D-440] which was then broadcast by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. Forest will be performed for the first time since 1937, on 28 May 2003 by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in the Wellington Town Hall, and broadcast live on Concert FM "The turning point I suppose was that Percy Grainger prize ... I was a third year student doing orchestration for the first time when I wrote this piece called Forest and put it in, and to my astonishment a few months later a reporter and a photographer turned up on the doorstep. After that it was fame. You know the sweet taste of fame, never had it so good since. It gave me 25 pounds. What that was worth in those days I don't know, but it was enough to impress my family that there might be a bit of money in it you know. Not only that but my father had a letter from the President of the Farmers' Union congratulating him on his son's musical success. And I think it shook him a bit because he couldn't believe it. He used to say, if it had to be music couldn't it be the bagpipes!" - Extract from Jack Body's interview with Douglas (ca 1980).

73. Paul's Gay Stamps: "Out Of The Closet" The Victorian Age,  Page 24 Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983 2002. percy grainger. (1882 - 1961). COMPOSER- pianist. Postal stationery, postmarked, Blackwood, Australia, 9 August 1983. http://www.paulsgaystamps.com/The Victorian Age/The_Victorian_Age_Page_24.htm

Out of the Closet The Victorian age page 24 PERCY GRAINGER COMPOSER - PIANIST Postal stationery, postmarked, Blackwood, Australia, 9 August 1983. Percy Grainger captured the heart of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Previous Page Master Chapter Index Chapter Index The Victorian Age Next Page ... Back To Start Page

74. Klavier LP KD139 $18.00 percy grainger Plays Grieg Via the Duo-Arte reproducing piano,composer and pianist percy grainger plays, in excellent stereo, several Grieg http://www.uhfmag.com/Klavier.html

If you're still buying UHF on the newsstand, why not get faster and cheaper by subscribing Do the concepts of high end hi-fi give you a headache? Take 20 minutes for the UHF Hi-Fi Course Trying to reach UHF? Our contact page tells you how to find us. Founded in the 1970's, Klavier was originally set up to record keyboard music of a special type. In the early part of the century, famous pianists had "recorded" their performances on the reproducing piano, a high-tech version of the player piano. A reproducing piano was set up in a concert hall, and recorded in modern stereo. Conventional classical recordings followed. A number of these recordings were done by Keith O. Johnson, who would later make Reference Recordings famous. Today's Klavier is making modern classical recordings, however, sometimes with some of the world's finest artists. Remember...all of the recordings on this list are recommended by UHF. Records shown in red are used by UHF Magazine in its tests of audio equipment. Harp Spectacular Spectacular? Believe it! But this recording is now replaced by Caprice (below), a virtually identical recording, though with the selection order changed.

75. Urban Cinefile Feature grainger, percy ALDRIDGE FACT SHEET. percy grainger (1882 1961), the eccentricbut brilliant composer / pianist from Melbourne, Australia lived on the edge. http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=2352&s=Features

76. Grainger: Piano Music percy grainger (18821961 your lower jaw in place as he negotiates grainger s cakewalksmasher in this repertoire - challenging to the pianist, delightful to http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/66884.asp

Compact Disc CDA66884 The solo piano music of Percy Grainger comprises about ninety works, many of which are transcriptions of earlier orchestral or instrumental compositions. Grainger was an inveterate arranger and transcriber of music: of his own compositions, of folk-music from around the world, and of works by masters from Bach and Dowland to Fauré and Richard Strauss. Despite his apparently loathing the piano, it being 'an affront to destroy a melodiously conceived idea by trying to fit it into the limitations of two hands and a box full of hammers and strings', the nineteen works in this recital capture all the humour, charm and sheer bravado of such 'dish-ups' as Handel in the Strand, Country Gardens and the rest. Recorded in St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol, on 8-10 January 1996 Recording Engineer TONY FAULKNER Recording Producer ANDREW KEENER Post-production Assistant OLIVER RIVERS Piano prepared by PETER SALISBURY Design TERRY SHANNON Executive Producers JOANNA GAMBLE NICK FLOWER © Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCVI

77. Sleeve Notes - Bach Piano Transcriptions - 3: Friedman, Murdoch & Grainger of (George) percy Aldridge grainger (18821961) is like walking into a hall ofmirrors. He was a multi-talented man, an outstandingly gifted pianist, a http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67344.html

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Excerpts from the sleeve notes An Introduction by Piers Lane When I was due to record Rambles and Reflections (a disc of transcriptions by Percy Grainger) in 2001, the idea had already been mooted for a Hyperion series devoted to Bach transcriptions. For that reason, I omitted Percy’s four Bach explorations from that recording, saving them for the present series. Then arose the question of what to put alongside them. Friedman’s Bach is altogether different to play. His voice is surprisingly distinctive. His ovine imagination may pale in comparison with Grainger’s quixotic shepherding, but his Gavotte can hold its head up alongside Rachmaninov’s, and his Bourée provides great keyboard pleasure. His Brandenburg movement is a bit of a finger twister. Friedman is revered for his recorded performances of Chopin’s double-note Etudes. Quite obviously thirds and sixths and octaves came very naturally to him – his transcriptions bristle with them. His continual displacements of left-hand lines darting back and forth across the piano may ensure stimulating aural provocation, but they add innumerable difficulties for the unwary pianist. It is an interesting exercise to play his vision of the Toccata alongside Grainger’s. It’s not as grandiose, but his solutions are sometimes more elegant pianistically, perhaps allowing a more gradual building of the overall shape of the work. William Murdoch is less original in his approach than Friedman or Grainger, but how he relishes his material, and how wondrously does he understand piano sonority. Like his colleagues on this disc, he enjoys deploying thirds and octaves and underpinning lines of counterpoint with long, low held notes. He also delights in the piano’s dynamic range, and in its kaleidoscopic colour potential. Most of all, though, he sources the piano’s ability to express heroic nobility, Romantic depth and breadth – and to sing.

78. Richard And John CONTIGUGLIA, Duo Pianists - Porgy & Bess Two Pianos alone The Contiguglias’ wonderfully vibrant Fantasy on Themes from‘Porgy and Bess’ by the Australian pianist, percy grainger, triggered an http://www.duopianistscontiguglia.com/porgy.htm

Two Pianos alone: "The Contiguglias’ wonderfully vibrant Fantasy on Themes from ‘Porgy and Bess’ by the Australian pianist, Percy Grainger, triggered an unusual reaction from the normally conservative audience which attends these concerts. Their singing, shouting, strutting, clowning and dancing interpretation of this rich synopsis of the opera brought the crowd to its feet. That indicates to me that a good many people join me in wishing these double dynamos of pianism a speedy return to San Antonio. -Andrew Mihalso, San Antonio EXPRESS NEWS Two Pianos and Orchestra: Pianists Score with Concerto on ‘Porgy and Bess’ Themes Seattle – In the beginning there was George Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess,’ considered by many to be America’s first great opera. Using themes from ‘Porgy,’ the celebrated Australian-born pianist/composer Percy Grainger composed one of his greatest works for two pianos. Then, twin pianists, John and Richard Contiguglia, commissioned Tom Kochan to build a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra based on Grainger’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ Fantasy . The Kochan version was performed here last weekend by the Contiguglias and the Seattle Symphony under guest conductor, Joel Revzen.

79. Suburban Street News - Entertainment percy ALDRIDGE grainger, celebrated composer, pianist, and one of the most creativemusical geniuses of the 20th century, was a familiar figure in White Plains http://www.suburbanstreet.com/Entertain.html

Contents Around White Plains! Around Westchester! Reel to Reel with Jon Chattman Bedford Community Theatre Bendheim Arts Center Caramoor City Center Cine De Lux ... White Plains Performing Arts Center E-News Back to the top Battle of the Bands! If you think your band has what it takes to get out of the garage and onto the big stage, send a sample of your best music to win your group a spot the Battle of the Bands, to be held for the first time at the Music Tower Theater Tuesday, July 20, at Playland Park in Rye. Submit either cassette tape or CD with songs played, along with name/address/age/phone number of each band member, by Wednesday, June 16, to: Westchester County Parks Department 25 Moore Avenue Mount Kisco, NY 10549 Attention: Joe Lemischak More info at www.westchestergov.com/parks

80. Classical Musical Midi, A Good Place To Read A Composers Biography With A List C Original name percy Aldridge grainger (born July 8 20, 1961, White Plains, NY, US),Australianborn American composer, pianist, and conductor who was http://www.classicalmidi.co.uk/grain.htm

PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER th July 1882 - 20 th Febraury 1961 Original name Percy Aldridge Grainger (born July 8, 1882, Melbourne, Victoria, Australiadied Feb. 20, 1961, White Plains, N.Y., U.S.), Australian-born American composer, pianist, and conductor who was also known for his work in collecting folk music. Grainger first appeared publicly as a pianist at age 10. He was educated at home in Melbourne by his mother. He studied piano with Louis Pabst in that city and later went to Frankfurt, where he attended the conservatory. He achieved a reputation as a brilliant concert pianist beginning in London in 1901. In 1906 Grainger became a friend of Edvard Grieg, under whose influence he began collecting and recording English folk songs by means of wax-cylinder phonographs. He settled in the United States in 1914, performing for a few years with a U.S. Army band. Grainger was deeply affected by the suicide of his mother in 1922. He returned to Australia alone in 1924 and toured there as a pianist in 1926 and again in 1934-35. In 1932-33 he was head of the music department of New York University. In 1935 he founded the Grainger Museum at Melbourne, a museum of Australian music where much of his own work and some of his artifacts are preserved. Grainger was heavily influenced by English folk music, which he arranged for keyboard instruments, chamber ensembles, and both solo voice and chorus. He is probably best remembered for

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