20. Mark N. Grant, pianist and commentator

Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 7pm | “Percy Grainger: Piano Innovator”

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20.

Sunday Evenings at Klavierhaus
Joe Patrych, artistic director

presents

“Percy Grainger: Piano Innovator”

Mark N. Grant, pianist and commentator

Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 7pm

Live at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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Composer-pianist Mark N. Grant, who knew several of Percy Grainger’s friends, takes you behind the scenes with Percy with many rare photographs, performs a selection of his piano works, and demonstrates the ingenious special effects Grainger innovated in his piano writing.

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Mark N. Grant is a composer and writer. In 2006 he became the first composer to receive the Friedheim Award since the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award program ended in 1993. A pianist and organist, he has composed music for instruments and voice in all forms and is frequently his own librettist for his theater pieces. He is the author of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor award-winning books: Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in North America and The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical.

Mr. Grant has also written and lectured extensively on the legacies of the composers Percy Grainger and Kurt Weill. He is a frequent writer on musical and other cultural topics for various publications and has been a guest speaker at various venues and a commentator on radio programs and podcasts.