Percy Grainger plays Irish folk song: "Maguire's Kick"

Grainger (1882-1961) started concert touring at age 12. He was very close to his mother, Rose, especially after his architect and alcoholic father John, left for London in
1891. The marriage broke up when Rose discovered that she contracted syphilis from John.

Percy Grainger moved to America in 1914 and remained there. He became a US citizen, but he always described himself as Australian.

He later experimented with "Free Music" and was a pioneer in electronic music. His concert career came to a long sad end, playing in lots of high school auditoriums and such
Though he did get some fine recordings of a few of his major compositions near the end of his life.

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[webaroos]

The wonder of YT, at a click you see something you might never see, ever, and here is Grainger playing, have never seen him perform before.

[evifnoskcaj]

Not true. He did love his mother, but his mother killed herself because of FALSE ACCUSATIONS about her having a sexual relationship with her son. You should more carefully read Wikipedia next time "emo" clarinetist.

Oh and his "fettishes" were probably psychologically attributted to the fact that his mother used to whip him as a child. His love for his mother (which was NOT a sexual relationship) adversly caused his love for flagellation.

[LiveTalkNow]

@evifnoskcaj I have seen his whip collection IRL and may I say that it is fucked, sexual or not.

[robertilicous]

(a thousand whips echo from his basement every night) waachack!!!!!! waaachack!!!

uhhhhh!!!

[whitacrefan17]

Its him

[brianCIM]

@drumbo2002 yes. his father gave his mother syphilis.

[paulostroff99]

Awesome!TY.

[kukral]

Now I understand why his Duo-Art piano roll recordings sound the way they do!  Amazing performance.

[evifnoskcaj]

@redsox14048 Wait...that's it?

[redsox14048]

@evifnoskcaj haha alright man

[evifnoskcaj]

@redsox14048 Wikipedia was not my only source, which was one of my points. I honestly could care less about his personal life if all he had was a liking to BDSM. He was no where close to Wagner's messed up life, and besides Wagner hurt far more people than Grainger ever could due to his "problems". Grainger definitely trumps Wagner's dangerous religious beliefs as well (to spell it out for you).

[redsox14048]

@evifnoskcaj no offense but ive talked to a ton of music historians who support the sexual relations theory, i wouldn't believe everything off wiki. but there was apparently other issues as well.