Percy Grainger, one of Australia's best-known composers, though also claimed by the United States (where he lived for most of his life). The title of this post is a quote from Edvard Grieg. Grieg and Grainger were admirers of one another. After Grieg died, Grainger enjoyed playing his friend's famous Piano Concerto in A minor and even made a piano roll of it, which has been used to create a performance performed by Sydney Symphony and ... Percy Grainger (via a grand piano, specially modified to play piano rolls).
Grainger died 50 years ago, on 20th February, 1961. There are some great commemorative recordings which have been released to coincide with this.
Percy would not be happy with the Youtube clip below, because he was disappointed to be best-known for his arrangement of the English folksong, Country Gardens. I wonder what he would have made of the performance by Rowlf and Fozzie Bear?
Thanks to Mitchell Conservatorium Singing and Piano teacher, Michelle Griffin, for sharing this fun video with us.
