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Ink on paper

21.4 x 14.3 cm

Maureen Bang, 'Even Cooking is Music to Him', The Australian Women's Weekly, August 1973, detail
Collection of John Whiteoak

Over her career, Melba lived in several different
homes at exclusive addresses in London and Paris.
In 1929, she rented this Paris apartment from Polish
aristocrat Princess Catherine Radziwill.

Electronic Music Studios, Ltd, London, EMS VCS3 synthesizer, 1970

Metal, plastic, electronic components

On loan from MESS Ltd

The VCS3 is significant in that it was the first viable commercial European synthesizer. Launched in 1969 by EMS,…

Electronic Music Studios, Ltd, London, EMS Spectre video synthesizer, 1974–75

Metal, plastic, electronic components

On loan from MESS Ltd

Designed by Richard Monkhouse of EMS, the Spectre is a hybrid video synthesizer, combining both…

The wide variety of clothing reflects the diversity of culture in the nation during the Qing Dynasty. After the Manchu-Qing rulers from the north of the great wall seized the power in China, they assert authority over the dominant native Han Chinese…

Ella Grainger became an expert player of her husband’s compositions using the bells and steel marimba, under Percy’s tutelage, despite having no formal musical training. She played the bells on tours across America in the period 1929-33, and in…

Donated to the Grainger Museum by Burnett Cross on 19 April 1994

Ella and Percy Grainger were closely involved with the design and construction of their museum on the grounds of the University. This photograph shows Ella Grainger on site in the second phase of building in 1938.

Black and white photograph. 25.1 x 19.4 cm Swedish poet and painter, Ella Viola Strom, married Percy Grainger at the Hollywood Bowl, Southern California, USA, on 9 August 1928. The wedding occurred in front of a huge audience, estimated as between…