Ella Grainger wearing her wedding dress, in the home she and Percy Grainger shared at White Plains< New York, 1928

Ella Grainger wearing her wedding dress, in the home she and Percy Grainger shared at White Plains< New York, 1928

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 15,000 and 23,000, at the end of a concert of Grainger's own compositions. Ella Grainger performed alongside other musicians, under the conducting baton of Percy Grainger, in a piece of music written especially for the occasion and as a wedding gift to her: "To a Nordic Princess".

1928

Photograph

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