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In memoriam: Percy Grainger’s “Horkstow Grange”

May 27, 2019 by Terry Teachout

Major Michelle A. Rakers and the United States Marine Band perform “Horkstow Grange,” a movement from Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, in concert at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, in 2015: 

Lincolnshire Posy is a six-movement suite for concert band composed by Grainger in 1937. The thematic material is drawn from English folk songs that were collected by Grainger in the field early in the twentieth century. He learned this folk song in July of 1905 from the singing of George Gouldthorpe, a lime-burner who was born sometime around 1840.

To read Grainger’s program note for Lincolnshire Posy, which contains a detailed account of how he collected “Horkstow Grange” from Gouldthorpe, go here.

To hear the actual wax cylinders on which Grainger made his original field recordings of the songs used in Lincolnshire Posy, including Gouldthorpe’s 1905 performance of “Horkstow Grange,” go here.

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(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

Almanac: Emerson on courage

May 27, 2019 by Terry Teachout

“’Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon’s mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage”

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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