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Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy.

Percy Grainger 1882-1961. Australian born composer and pianist who became an American citizen. He was greatly admired by Grieg and Delius.and noted for collecting and arranging English folk songs. Most well known of these his arrangement of 'Brigg Fair' from North Lincolnshire and recorded by Grainger on an Edison Phonograph during 1905. Years later Delius composed his famous orchestral rhapsody based Percy's arrangement 'Brigg Fair'. Delius and Grainger were to become lifelong friends. Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. 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 a similar fashion to these folk songs, many of the movements are in strophic form. The work debuted with three movements on March 7, 1937 performed by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band, a group composed of members from bands including the Blatz Brewery and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer factory worker bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unlike other composers who attempted to alter and modernize folk music, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Grainger wished to maintain the exact stylizing that he experienced from the originals. In the piece's program notes, Grainger wrote: "...Each number is intended to be a kind of musical portrait of the singer who sang its underlying melody—a musical portrait of the singer’s personality no less than of his habits of song—his regular or irregular interpretation of the rhythm, his preference for gaunt or ornately arabesqued delivery, his contrasts of legato and staccato, his tendency towards breadth or delicacy of tone." Grainger dedicated his "bunch of Wildflowers" to "the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me". On this video two movements from the whole piece - Dublin Bay (Lisbon) (1min 28sec) English Dance ( 9 min 3 sec) The county city of Lincoln is the loosely appropriate photographic subject of this video. A city of great charm and culture with a fine medieval Cathedral housing a beautiful Father Willis pipe organ. The city is built on a hillside overlooked by its famous cathedral and Norman castle. Down by the the river and canal old re-developed warehouses form part of a trendy new look. Many Tudor style buildings gathered together on the route down through the town completes a sense of history that still pervades the scene in this increasingly modern looking city. The black statue with his dog, situated behind the cathedral is of the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. The other regal looking character is no less than George 111. Album Info:- 'An Introduction to Percy Grainger' 'A Lincolnshire Posy' Dublin Bay, English Dance, The Royal Northern Sinfonia Richard Hickox - Timothy Reynish Chandos Records 2006. Apologies for any copyright issues, this video is not made or uploaded for profit or personal gain.