Percy Grainger | Celebrating his Life and Work
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"The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows."-Percy Grainger | our missionPercy Grainger America Inc. is engaged in an ongoing re-creation of the life and times of Australian composer Percy Grainger during his forty years in America (1921 to 1961). To this end Percy Grainger America Inc. has rededicated Grainger’s historic landmark home at 7 Cromwell Place in White Plains, New York as a living time capsule that exhibits how an internationally famous, radically inventive creative artist (and his wife, Ella Viola Strom, also an artist) lived and worked as "different drummers" in twentieth century America. The Graingers' home, long a destination for a worldwide stream of visiting musicians, now reemerges as a fascinating storybook world for a larger cultural public. |
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about percy graingerPercy Grainger was a man of many seasons — not only a composer and pianist but a musical folklorist, wind band arranger, polyglot, watercolorist, early music expert, clothing designer, prodigious letter writer, essayist, and philosophical thinker. His popular works like Country Gardens and Molly on the Shore were best sellers of the early twentieth-century music world, while his experiments in avant-garde music anticipated many artistic developments in the later twentieth century and beyond. Today his music is performed even more widely than during his lifetime. Learn more... Recent blogs
Of Interest The Music Conservatory of Westchester continues its new Musical Masters Lecture Series on Sundays at 2 PM during spring 2019. Sunday, April 28 – “Musical Storytelling: The Poetry Behind Piano Masterpieces” with acclaimed concert pianist Andrew Armstrong Sunday, May 19 – “Film Music: Groundbreaking Director/Composer Collaborations” with Peabody Award-winning Broadcaster & Producer and WQXR radio host Elliott Forrest | Upcoming events
Rick Masters will be performing Music by Percy Grainger and His Contemporaries, Sunday May 5th @ 4 pm.
Marissa Kyser will be speaking about Percy and Ella's time in Missouri, Saturday May 11 @ 2 pm.
Penelope Thwaites will be speaking and performing on Sunday May 12 @ 4 pm.
Monica Syrette will be speaking about Ella Grainger on Monday May 13 @ 2 pm. |
