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Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. [1] Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography, to be his masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work has six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.
In 1982, Grainger's centennial year, Richard and John recorded for NPR several programs of Grainger's chamber music, including the Trios for piano, violin and cello, My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone and Colonial Song, as well as other works for strings and piano, besides many compositions for two pianists.
John Harry Grainger (30 November 1854 [1] – 15 April 1917 [2]) was an Australian architect and civil engineer, who was also the father of musician Percy Grainger.Over his long career, between 1878 and 1915, he designed 14 bridges, notably Princes Bridge in Melbourne, and as an architect, designed half a dozen major public buildings, mainly in New Zealand, Perth, and Melbourne, notably the WA ...
Grainger initially wrote Colonial Song in 1911 as a piano piece as a gift to his mother, Rose. Of his piece, Grainger wrote that it was "an attempt to write a melody as typical of the Australian countryside as Stephen Foster 's exquisite songs are typical of rural America". [ 1 ]
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, designed by John Grainger. Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, south-east of Melbourne.His father, John Grainger, an English-born architect who had emigrated to Australia in 1877, won recognition for his design of the Princes Bridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne; [1] His mother Rose Annie Aldridge was the daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge.
The Warriors: Music to an Imaginary Ballet is an orchestral piece written in the United States by the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger between 1913 and 1916. It is dedicated "For Frederick Delius , in admiration and affection".
The church of San Giovanni in Oleo, with the Porta Latina in background.. San Giovanni in Oleo is a chapel adjacent to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome.It commemorates the place where, according to legend, in 92 AD, at the hands of the emperor Domitian, the apostle John was immersed in a vat of boiling oil from which he emerged unharmed.
The Grainger Museum is a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the composer, folklorist, educator and pianist Percy Grainger (b. Melbourne, 1882; d. Melbourne, 1882; d. White Plains, New York, 1961), located in the grounds of the University of Melbourne , Victoria , Australia .