. Review of reviews and world's work. ngup to the present time whenever Grainger electsto produce one of his Kiplings settings, be itsong or chorus, he becomes Kipling in a mannerwhich nobody else in the musical arena canapproach. Mr. Scott has no hesitation in saying thatGraingers creative genius will leave an im-perishable name in the historj of Englishmusic That the folksong should appeal toPero Grainger in the way it does, he ^ not a matter for surprise, considering theKipling influence, but it has undoubtedly ledthe public to make a false estimate ofGraingers powers as an original
. Review of reviews and world's work. ngup to the present time whenever Grainger electsto produce one of his Kiplings settings, be itsong or chorus, he becomes Kipling in a mannerwhich nobody else in the musical arena canapproach. Mr. Scott has no hesitation in saying thatGraingers creative genius will leave an im-perishable name in the historj of Englishmusic That the folksong should appeal toPero Grainger in the way it does, he ^ not a matter for surprise, considering theKipling influence, but it has undoubtedly ledthe public to make a false estimate ofGraingers powers as an original his published works a preponderanceof folksfjng settings have grown popular. Aman nearly always becomes celebrated by hislightest and most frivolous and most easilyunderstandable works, and Grainger hascertainly become a victim to this trait in thepublics mentality; for having given the pub-lic a few light works, it at once supposesthat he can write nothing but light works. If \\, therefore, one of the object* of this. ^ Aillie I>u|K>lit article to dispel that entirely false notion, forcertainly the Hill Song for wind instruments;The English Dance for full orchestra; theFather and Daughter for male quartet, chorusand orchestra, including a number of guitars, areworks of paramount seriousness displaying aninspiration and a technique which awakened, inmany of us, one of the greatest musical sensationswe have had for many a long year. But it mustnot be supposed that in talking of seriousness oneimplies anything which could for a moment sug-gest dullness or the academic. Cirainger is any-thing but classical; he is not, like Max Reger,a sort of elongation of Brahms—indeed this goeswithout saying, but one may add with truthful-ness that he is not an elongation of anything:but the essence of folksong augmented to a greatwork of art. Even when he keeps the folksongsalmost within their original dimensions he hasa way of dealing with them which is entirelynew, yet
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