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Percy Grainger
Percy Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early 20th century. Grainger left Australia in 1895 to study at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer and collector of original folk melodies. He met many of the significant figures in European music, forming friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg, and became a champion of Nordic music and culture. In 1914, Grainger moved to the United States, where he took citizenship in 1918. He experimented with music machines that he hoped would supersede human interpretation. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens". This glass negative of Grainger was taken at some point around 1915–1920.Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by Adam Cuerden and MyCatIsAChonk


Quotes:
"Martha Stewart writes picture books about gracious living.
She says there's not a problem in the world that can't be solved with a dried floral arrangement. I worship her."

--Patrick Stewart, "Jeffrey"

Rememver: Live like there is no tomorrow, Dance like no one is watching & Sing like no one is listening!

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Amusement: Don't these two resemble each other? Sculpture of Ramesess II (the Great) and pornstar Jenny Hendrix (aka Hot Haley)? She resembles him more in some pictures than in others.

External Pic

Somehow the mummy identified as Ramesess II doesn't resemble the sculpture, does he? True there is an age difference between the sculpture and the mummy, but still. One of the fine skills of the human brain is recognizing other people from their faces.


Main Entry: Liberty

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: freedom

Synonyms: autarchy, authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, power of choice, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty, suffrage, unconstraint

Antonyms: arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint