Editing Ron Grainer (section)

===Early musical education and career===
Grainer received his teaching and performing diploma for pianoforte in December 1949.<ref>''Sydney Morning Herald'', 23 December 1949, p. 8.</ref> During 1950 and 1951 he began appearing in a series of solo artist radio shows for the [[Australian Broadcasting Commission]].<ref>"Radio", ''Adelaide Advertiser'', 18 September 1950, p. 16, cp 5.4.51 p6, Townsville Bulletin 4.5.51 p3, cp 4.9.51 p6</ref> In August 1951 a presentation of Delius, Faure, and Milhaud compositions by Grainer on piano and Don Scott on violin was ridiculed in a newspaper review for the duo's "uncompromising disregard of mob appeal", "lack of practical concert sense", and "unrelievedly pastel colouring" set list that was "in need of a more impulsive and heartfelt spirit on the well tendered surface" having earlier said "by the time the programme ended the recital badly needed blood transfusion".<ref>''Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 August 1951, p.4.</ref> By the mid-1950s Grainer had abandoned his classical repertoire and live concert work with such a determined change of attitude that he claimed in a 1964 magazine interview that he had "always loathed performing".<ref name="ReferenceA"/>