Two Birds With One Stone

Posted by Chad Criswell Mar 4, 2006

I admit it, I am notorious for putting things off until the last minute. This time, however, I am trying to get ahead of the game. In case you don't know, I am a high school band director. As a part of my classroom lessons I decided to program a piece of music by Percy Aldridge Grainger, a fairly well known Austrailian born composer who lived in the United States as a naturalized citizen for most of his life. I felt it best for me and for my students if I reacquainted myself with Grainger, his history, and his music, and the result is a fairly complete biography of this legend of American music history. As a result I decided to share this research with all of you here on Suite101.