The composer writes... My title was originally “Clog Dance”. But my dear friend William Gair Rathbone (to whom the piece is dedicated) suggested the title “Handel in the Strand,” because the music seemed to reflect both Handel and English musical comedy [the “Strand” — a street in London — is...
Percy Apridge Grainger (1882 - 1961) wrote his first Hill song for solo piano starting in 1901. In 1907 he revisited the ideas from his first Hill song to compose Hill song no. 2 For two pianos, four hands in 1907 and later scored it for 23 wind instruments in...