Best known for 'Country Gardens', Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger was a force of nature. For him, music and his personal obsessions were one and the same thing. Here are some of ...

This Friday, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, conducted by Eric Hewitt, performs “The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart,” by the Australian-American composer, theorist, and pianist Percy ...

Grainger cut quite a dash as a young man, when he became famous as a virtuoso pianist, and was a friend of Grieg and Delius and Vaughan Williams. But in many ways he wasn’t fit for civilised company.

Few melodies have become quite as insinuatingly popular as Percy Grainger's arrangement of the traditional air In an English Country Garden. The piece has been performed by everyone from Leopold ...

As a small child growing up in Melbourne, Percy Grainger devoured the Icelandic sagas, signed his letters “Grettir the Strong” and bounded up every available stairway. His adoring mother Rose, ...

More than half a century after his death, Percy Grainger’s true stature as a composer remains hard to pin down. For all that his own music trampled across stylistic boundaries and cheerfully subverted ...

When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited the University of Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects ...