Colleen Dhas

Percy Grainger
Australian-born composer
(8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961)

Today, 8 July, is Australian-born composer Percy Grainger's birthday anniversary. It's very likely you have heard of the tune 'Danny Boy'. Grainger arranged it. Yes. That he did. Its original title is 'Irish Tune from County Derry.' For today, I have created a YouTube using another one of his Irish tunes.

Geoffrey Simon & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1990)
Colleen Dhas (Grainger)
Click here to view this L'Envoi YouTube.

This video is embedded with the 1990 world premiere recording of Grainger's 'Colleen Dhas.' The pastoral setting of this work is agreeable to that of an Irish countryside.