 By 1957 Grainger 's physical health had markedly declined , as had his powers of concentration . Nevertheless , he continued to visit Britain regularly ; in May of that year he made his only television appearance , in a BBC " Concert Hour " programme when he played " Handel in the Strand " on the piano . Back home , after further surgery he recovered sufficiently to undertake a modest winter concerts season . On his 1958 visit to England he met Benjamin Britten , the two having previously maintained a mutually complimentary correspondence . He agreed to visit Britten 's Aldeburgh Festival in 1959 , but was prevented by illness . Sensing that death was drawing near , he made a new will , bequeathing his skeleton " for preservation and possible display in the Grainger Museum " . This wish was not carried out . 
