Percy Grainger Lane: What's in a Street Name?

We know that internationally acclaimed pianist/composer Percy Grainger guest conducted at Interlochen’s National Music Camp in 1930 and was on summer faculty in 1937 and 1942–44. However, the extent of Grainger’s contributions to Interlochen are both surprising and forgotten.

This presentation by alumna Phyllis Weliver recovers this lost history and offers a fuller narrative about Interlochen’s pioneering role in US music history. IPR’s Music Director Amanda Sewell will host, and rare footage of Grainger at Interlochen will be shown. 

Phyllis Weliver (NMC/IAC 76-86, IAA 82-86) is professor of English and Research Institute fellow at Saint Louis University and fellow of Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Her most recent academic book, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, and she has published and edited many other monographs, articles, book chapters, and essays. This talk combines Phyllis’s interest in music and intellectual history with her background at Interlochen, where she grew up.

This event is free, but we do ask that you register in advance. This will be hosted on Interlochen's campus in the Mallory-Towsley Center for Arts Leadership, Rooms 106/107. 

Questions? Please contact the Office of Engagement: engagement@interlochen.org