Priaulx Rainier

Ivy Priaulx Rainier (3 February 190310 October 1986) was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly influenced by the African music remembered from her childhood. One of her sisters was a cellist. She taught at Badminton School, Bristol, and also played violin in a string quartet. (1939). It was given a private performance in 1940 but not performed publicly until 1944, at Wigmore Hall. The music was used for a ballet titled Night Spell, performed by the José Limón company in the United States in 1951 and the Barbaric Dance Suite for piano (1949; premiered in November 1950 by Margaret Kitchin). There is also a Suite for clarinet and piano (1943), a Sinfonia da camera for strings (1947; commissioned by a close friend, where she remained until 1961. Jeremy Dale Roberts, Rachel Cavalho, and Christopher Small. She and Michael Tippett co-founded the St Ives September Festival, first presented in June 1953. Music The first of Priaulx Rainier’s large orchestral works was Phalaphala (the word refers to an African chief’s ceremonial horn), first heard in 1961, celebrating Sir Adrian Boult’s tenth a