[+] Ould, Barry Peter. "Oh I Can't Sit Down: Version for One Piano Six Hands (From Grainger's Transcription)." The Grainger Journal 5 (November 1983): 10-14.
Between 1944 and 1951, Percy Grainger made a number of arrangements of George Gershwin's works. In addition to his Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the songs The Man I Love and Love Walked In, Grainger set two other songs from Porgy and Bess independently: "Oh, I Can't Sit Down" and "Oh, Lord I'm On My Way." Grainger's Oh, I Can't Sit Down is scored for three pianists at one piano and it appears that the third part is in fact a written-out improvisation which was added to the song as it appears in his Fantasy for Two Pianos. Based on this evidence, it does not appear that Grainger ever intended to publish this arrangement. As with his Bridge on the River Kwai Marches, this setting was probably intended as yet another of his "at-home" experiments.
Works: Grainger: Porgy and Bess Fantasy, The Man I Love, Love Walked In, Oh, Lord I'm On My Way, Oh, I Can't Sit Down, Bridge on the River Kwai Marches.
Index Classifications: 1900s
Contributed by: John Andrew Johnson
