3 posts tagged percy grainger

I like to follow my interests around; you know, to see where they go. Sometimes they’re naughty and they get into things better left alone. They are frequently tangential, following a certain kind of logic that makes sense to me . . . and few others.

I hate it when online sources write these two vile words: Coming Soon! And then don’t date the original text . . . *grinds something other than her teeth into tiny shavings* Entirely too much in relation to that statement, I think I might have found my next special interest.

The first piece that I ever heard by Percy Grainger was “Molly on the Shore“. Its tick-tock opening of the lower clarinet and bassoon voices provide an amazing support for the rapid-fire but flowing melody for the first clarinets that remains as captivating now as it was the first time I heard it.