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Percy Grainger (1882-1961) – The “Tragic” Composer?

  ‘I have always enjoyed composing. No “wretchedness” there. But the worth of my music will never be guessed, or its value to mankind felt, until the approach to my music is consciously undertaken as a “pilgrimage to sorrows”.’ … … Read More

February 14, 2020 0
Historical Influences | The Lads of Wamphray Ballad
The Lads of Wamphray Ballad: A Preface

In 2010, while reading Kay Dreyfus’ The Farthest North of Humanness (selected letters of Percy Grainger from 1901-1914), I stumbled across a footnote mentioning Percy Grainger’s The Lads of Wamphray March (one of my favorite Grainger numbers, and the first example … Read More

December 7, 2018 0
Historical Influences | The Lads of Wamphray Ballad
Percy Grainger strikes a blow for “the common folk”

“the composer has wished to express the devil-may-care dare-deviltry of the cattle-raiding, swashbuckling English and Scottish borderers of the period so grimly yet thrillingly portrayed in the border ballads collected and published by Scott, Motherwell, Jamieson, Johnson, Buchan, Kinloch, Swinburne … Read More

December 7, 2018 0

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