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- Percy Grainger, Australian born composer, lived in England, then America.
quotes from various websites:
- He was a vegetarian who hated vegetables, living chiefly on boiled rice, milk, cereals, nuts and oranges.
- A vegetarian, a teetotaler, a non-smoker, a committed atheist,
- Throughout his life he abstained from alcohol and tobacco and in his middle years he became a vegetarian.
- His mother took him to Europe in 1895 to study at Dr. Hoch's conservatory in Frankfurt. There he displayed his talents as a musical experimenter, using irregular and unusual meters. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. Fellow-students included Cyril Scott, (Scott was at some point vegetarian. Carl Friedberg, another vegetarian, was teaching at Hoch at that time).
- December 1894 First visit to vegetarian restaurant.
1924 Makes a private visit to the Pacific Islands and Australasia. ‘Officially’ becomes a ‘meatshunner’, or vegetarian
1946 Writes an essay on vegeterianism, ‘How I Became A Meat-Shunner’. (apparently for the American Vegetarian)
- Grainger became a vegetarian ("meatshunner") in 1924. Paradoxically, he hated vegetables and subsisted mostly on nuts, cheese, bread, fruit, cakes, fruit pies, and ice cream. He drank mostly milk. In addition to being a health faddist, he was an enthusiastic athlete - running and jumping and, especially, hiking. Distance was no object. When he was on concert tours, he occasionally walked from town to town. He once finished a concert in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and set off for Durban just before midnight. He walked for sixty-five miles and arrived in Durban at 6:00 PM the next evening. He went to the concert hall still attired in his gym shorts, as his manager had accidentally sent his concert tuxedo to the wrong hotel. The tuxedo was finally located a short time before the concert was to begin.
- from the Grainger Collection, the University of Melbourne. . . . Vegetarian supper menu 28 December 1928
typescript on paper; 23.0 x 15.8 cm
- In 1924 Percy became a vegetarian (he referred to it as meat-shunment, part of his blue-eyed English - a quixotic attempt to expunge the English language of all words of Latin and Greek derivation).
- . . . Grainger Museum, Melbourne. . . . includes many bizarre items, shopping lists, vegetarian recipes,
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