MUSEUM OF MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 7

MUSEUM OF MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA

MR PERCY GRAINGER’S PROJECT BEGUN

[THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December 26. Progress with his project for creating in Australia a museum of music on entirely new lines and with a new object and outlook was described -by Mr Percy Grainger, the celebrated Australian pianist and composer, who, with his wife, arrived by the Aorangi on his way to make a concert tour in the United States. Since his return to the Commonwealth in August, Mr Grainger has been working 15 hours a day in the museum, a portion of which has now been opened. The museum would show the achievements in music in Englishspeaking countries from the thirteenth century to the present day, Mr Grainger said. Although it was not generally realised, English music had been a leading factor in European music in many ways and for many centuries.

Mr Grainger will spend four months giving concerts in America, and will then probably go to England, Finland, and Sweden. He will make a further concert tour in America before returning to Australia in 18 months’ time.