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Percy Grainger
Composer & pianist
8 July 1882 - 20 February 1961We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. This plaque can be found on a footpath in Brighton, Melbourne |  | PERCY GRAINGER
PIANIST AND COMPOSER WAS BORN AT THIS ADDRESS
8 JULY 1882THIS TABLET WAS LAID ON 4 AUGUST. 1968 BY
CR. W.B.LOVELL JP - MAYOR OF BRIGHTON
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Grainger's composition students included Bernard Hermann and Henry Cowell. Percy Grainger - sheet music
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Organ-ic Lunch with John Scott
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Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for his long-term
work as Organist and Director of Music at St, Paul’s Cathedral in London, John
Scott is now Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church in New York.
Universally respected, he displays “that perfect combination of technical
virtuosity and intense musicianship which is so rare” (Gramophone). In this
concert, he plays repertoire spanning five centuries including Handel,
Mendelssohn and Grainger.
- F. Mendelssohn
(1809 - 1847) Overture to ‘St Paul’ (arr. W.T. Best).
- G.F. Handel (1685
- 1759) Concerto in F Op.4 no.5. Larghetto - Allegro - Alla. Siciliana -
Presto
- J.S.Bach (1685 –
1750). Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543
- T. Tallis (1505 –
1585) Organ Hymn: Veni Redemptor
- H. Howells (1892 – 1983) Master Tallis’s Testament
- P. Grainger
(1882 - 1961) Handel in the Strand (arr. W. Stockmeier)
- Ad Wammes (b.1953) Miroir
- M. Duruflé (1902 - 1986) Toccata
1pm (60 minutes, doors open 12.30pm) |
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Benaud Trio - Songs of Scandinavia
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Benaud Trio is an acclaimed young Melbourne-based trio. The origins of their
unusual name are explained in our
podact of September 2007. In this one hour concert they perform:
Full details at
Benaud Trioo. |
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Gershwin/Grainger Gershwin An American in Paris
(original 2 piano version)
Grainger Fantasy on Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess'
performed by Katia and Mariel Labèque - pianos
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Sheet music
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Recommended books: (available from  )
Some piano-related links on this site
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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