 Although now less committed to a year @-@ round schedule of concerts , Grainger remained a very popular performer . His eccentricities , often exaggerated for publicity reasons , reportedly included running into auditoriums in gym kit and leaping over the piano to create a grand entrance . While he continued to revise and rescore his compositions , he increasingly worked on arrangements of music by other composers , in particular works by Bach , Brahms , Fauré and Delius . Away from music , Grainger 's preoccupation with Nordic culture led him to develop a form of English which , he maintained , reflected the character of the language before the Norman conquest . Words of Norman or Latin origin were replaced by supposedly Nordic word @-@ forms , such as " blend @-@ band " ( orchestra ) , " <unk> " ( lecturer ) and " writ @-@ piece " ( article ) . He called this " blue @-@ eyed " English . His convictions of Nordic superiority eventually led Grainger , in letters to friends , to express his views in crudely racial and anti @-@ Semitic terms ; the music historian David Pear describes Grainger as , " at root , a racial bigot of no small order " . 
