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Tristram Cary in his electronic studio at Fressingfield, UK, early 1970s

Tribute to Grainger conducted by Keith Humble, and tickets to the event, 1976

Grainger Museum Archive, HO1196

This heavily annotated cover of the singers’ parts for Tribute to Foster demonstrate the complexity of the performance arrangements, which included three conductors harnessing three sets of musicians, often playing to a different beat.

Audiences were fascinated and amused and sometimes bemused by the novelty and adventurous nature of Grainger’s orchestration in performances of his radical compositions. The Brisbane Courier-Mail observed, after a concert in October 1934, how…

Pair of cream towelling breeches and matching jacket with red stripe trim and fringed hem, with matching leggings. Hand sewn using manufactured towels. Worn by Percy Grainger between 1910-1914 while teaching and composing.

The towel clothes in the Grainger Museum are one of the highlights of the Costume Collection. Numbering 26 individual pieces or outfit, the towel clothes represent the Graingers’ innovative ideas and creativity in dress. Percy Grainger wrote about…

Silver gelatine print.

Photo: 33.3 x 23.4 cm
Photo and board: 48.4 x 35.4 cm

In the late 1930s Harris & Ewing was the largest photographic studio in the United States, with five physical locations and approximately 120 employees. A very…

In 1905 Grainger presented his first Royal Command Performance before Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace, London. Performances for European royalty soon followed, including the King and Queen of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1905, and the King and Queen…

1. Amended Ground plan with "future staircase" marked (dated 3 October 1938)
2. Proposed Additions to the Grainger Museum (undated)
3. Ground plan, blue paper with white writing (undated)
4. Grainger Museum, sky-view sketch (December 1938)