What’s this program about?
Percy Grainger’s life story reveals a most unusual personality who left an enduring legacy as a virtuoso pianist, an inventor of instruments, a collector of English folk songs, and a composer of music for wind band.
Works Discussed: Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy, The Immovable Do, Molly on the Shore.
Where you can find:
Percy Grainger’s Great Symphonic Band Music
Frederick Fennell – Eastman Wind Ensemble
Percy Grainger Biography – John Bird
Podcast: Download (13.5MB)
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