Notes from Grainger museum, University Of Melbourne

Abstract

Abstract Burnett Cross, now a senior science editor with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, N.Y., from 1945 to 1961 assisted Percy Grainger in the development of machines to play Free Music. In March 1976 he visited Australia by courtesy of the Australian-American Educational Foundation to work on restoration of the Free Music machines in the Grainger Museum. On 23 March he delivered the 1976 Percy Grainger Lecture. A feature of the lecture was the presentation of Grainger's Free Music No. 1 as realised, on the Synthi 100 in the electronic music studio of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, by the Faculty's electronics technician, Les Craythorn. The Australian Broadcasting Commission filmed a television segment at the Museum during Burnett Cross's visit. The segment, Free Music, was screened on the Weekend Magazine programme on Sunday, 13 June.1