Word: grainger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Lyric Suite Grieg Shepherd Boy--Nocturne--March of the Gnomes "Benvenuto Cellini," Overture Berlioz "Don Juan," Symphonic Poem Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss "Dance of Salome" from "Salome" Strauss A Comedy Overture on Negro Themes Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens
...precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...
...Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps b. Dance of the Sylphs c. Hungarian March (Rakoczy) A Music Box Liadov Children's Round and Dance of the Old Ladies from "The Convent on the Water" Caselia Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier A Comedy Overture Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
Music has displayed a certain reluctance to explore the frozen North. It was not until the time of Grieg that the possibilities of a tonal invasion of Arctic wastes and peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...
Most understandable were Grainger's Colonial Song, and his eternally rollicking Shepherd's Hey. So many composers are so unfalteringly dedicated to the sombre and tragic that many listeners find genuine relief in the sunniness of Percy's music, even though it often dances on undeniably wooden .boots...