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What I Did This Summer. And You Can, Too.
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:24:11 -0000
Staff members of The New York Times offer some suggestions: a wave goodbye to a favorite season, receding into the rearview mirror — no gas required.
Music Review: Rock’s Voice of Rage Finds a Fierceness in Quietude
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:39:58 -0000
Trent Reznor made his alienation an arena-scale spectacle at the Izod Center on Wednesday.
Music Review | Toby Love: A Large-Size Show in the Most Local of Places
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:38:09 -0000
In Washington Heights, with its large Dominican population, Toby Love is a star, thanks to his versatile readings of bachata.

NPR Topics: Music

Aimee Mann: Heartache And Hope
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:09:00 -0400
Mann's seventh solo album, @#%&*! Smilers, offers another look at dark and eccentric characters, complete with introspective looks at heartbreak, fading hope, and even Virginia carnivals. Mann recently sat down with World Cafe host David Dye to perform some of her new material.
Ra Ra Riot Navigates The Hype
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:24:00 -0400
The young band overcame the accidental death of its drummer to release its widely hailed debut full-length, The Rhumb Line. Ra Ra Riot performs in the studio and talks about nautical charts, string sections and the influence of Kate Bush.
Ahmad Jamal On Piano Jazz
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:06:00 -0400
Ever since his 1958 live album from Chicago's Pershing Lounge, Ahmad Jamal has been recognized as a major force in jazz. In this program from 1985, Jamal reprises two signature pieces from that session in duets with Marian McPartland: "Poinciana" and "But Not for Me."

Rolling Stone: Features

How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:58:32 -0700
A president driven by ideology. A Congress rife with corruption. A political party hellbent on a "permanent majority." A leading scholar examines the radicals who hijacked the GOP — and wrecked the longest conservative ascendancy in American history • Video: Five Ways Bush Sunk the GOP The failure of the administration of George W. Bush — and the accompanying crisis of the Republican Party — has caused a political meltdown of historic proportions. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Bush enjoyed the greatest popularity ever recorded for a modern American president. Republicans on Capitol Hill, under the iron rule of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, fattened their coffers through a fearsome...
Artists to Watch
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:29:00 -0700
Six acts who are defining rock and pop in 2008 LOW VS DIAMOND West Coast quintet craft widescreen rock anthems built for stadium singalongs Click above to watch Low vs Diamond's Lucas Field and Anthony Polcino perform "Heart Attack" live Few young american bands attempt the unabashedly grand cinematic rock that L.A.'s Low Vs Diamond play on their eponymous debut — and frontman Lucas Field sees that as an opportunity. "I felt like there was a hole in American anthems," says Field, 28. "British bands do this big, melodic stuff...
Fall Movie Preview
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:52:34 -0700
The Smart Season: First looks at fall's 31 hottest movies by Peter Travers Buzz off if you think the big fall whoop is "High School Musical 3." Or Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson trying to steal scenes from a dog in Marley and Me. Or Robert De Niro and Al Pacino slumming in another paycheck movie in Righteous Kill. My admittedly selective guide to what's up in film for the rest of 2008 is all about punch and provocation. Sequels get the shaft, including Saw V (enough already), but Quantum of Solace (November 7th) earns a pass because Daniel Craig is so damn...

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Megadeth Preparing To Record Next Album
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:26:52 -0000
Acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap will fly over to Southern California on September 8 to start recording their next album.
Lynyrd Skynyrd Album In Early 2009
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:21:40 -0000
Lynyrd Skynyrd are reportedly eyeing an early-2009 release for their next studio album.
Tommy Bolin Biography To Be Released
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:17:56 -0000
Tommy Bolin, the late guitarist of 1970s rock heavyweights James Gang and Deep Purple, is the latest rocker to receive the memoir treatment.

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Grainger Museum - University of Melbourne - Instruments, manuscripts, artworks, textiles and costumes related to his life and contemporaries. Includes biography, works, photographs, visual artistry, and family details.
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A History of the Wooster High School Bands - Wooster High School Music Department History - Bands. Grainger visited this school during the 1940s.
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A Report on the Grainger Event - Synopisis of a celebration at St. John's Smith Square, London Saturday 7th November - Sunday 8th November 1998.

Abstracts of Papers at the 1998 CIMCIM Meeting - Percy Grainger's Past-Hoard-House (Museum)

500 Arts and Entertainment Section -- Ensemble prepares wind classicsConcert at Old Cabell Hall features compositions of Holst, Grainger - The Cavalier Daily Online Edition November 13, 1998

Australian Music Centre - Picture, biography, and list of works and recordings.

Classical Music Archives: Grainger - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete files offered in MIDI format.
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Classical Music Reviews: Graingerc Edition Vol.2 - Songs for Baritone. Varcoe/Thwaites (Chandos) - From inkpot.com

Classical Musical MIDI - Biography; MIDI files.
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Grainger, George Percy Aldridge - Biography following him from Australia through Europe and into the United States noting his varied styles and best-remembered works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.

Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961) - Brief biography with summaries of his instrumental, vocal, and keyboard music.

Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961), Australia - Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essay from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
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Heartoutbursts: Lincolnshire Folksongs Collected by Percy Grainger - Notes and lyrics with extended commentary by John Roberts and Tony Barrand in connection with their recording on Golden Hind Music.

Langdon Jones - Grainger, Folk Songs - A short description of Grainger's Let's Dance Gay in Green Meadow, an example of his folk-music based piano music.
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Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8809 - Percy Grainger plays Grainger

OUP USA: Percy Grainger - Brief information by Wilfrid Mellers, University of York.
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Percy Aldridge Grainger - Brief biography, photograph from his young days, and links from the Classical Composers Database.
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Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) - Extensive list of art songs and the Jungle Book cycle from the Lied and Art Song Texts Page at REC Music. Included many English texts.
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Percy Grainger - Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary with life and examination of some of his works.
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Percy Grainger - Biography, photographic portrait, pictures of the tomb shared with his mother's ashes, links, and virtual memorial from Find a Grave.

500 Percy Grainger - Filmography as composer and arranger, biography, links, and related material from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
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Percy Grainger Catalogue - From Hyperion Records, UK

Percy Grainger Society - Biographical article; information on the Society; links.

Percy Grainger's Background - Percy Grainger - A Brief Biographical Background

Picture of Percy Grainger - Black and white photograph from 1940 autographed and dedicated to the United States Military Academy Band.

Picture of Percy Grainger at the Piano - Photograph of him in 1950, with Lieutenant Colonel Resta conducting the United States Military Academy Band at Carnegie Hall.

The Lyre's Island - Short. From MIT Press.

The Thompsonian: MIDI Files - A collection, including 3 by Grainger.