The scoring for this “music for an imaginary ballet” includes enough percussion for an eight-person team, plus timpani, with extra brass (offstage; with a second conductor), three pianos, and, I think, if not mentioned on the list I perused, an organ (try from 16:57). There seems doubt as to when the premiere was, for it may have been earlier than December 1919 when The Warriors was played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Frederick Stock.
The day after the Christmas Day before equates to Boxing Day equates (wholly wrongly) to pugilism equates (tangentially) to Percy Grainger’s The Warriors as recorded by the Philharmonia Orchestra & Sir John Eliot Gardiner for DG with a great ending.
No organ in the published score, but when the BBC Phil gave a performance of the Warriors at the Proms n the 1990s, as we had an organist available for the Enigma Variations in the same programme, I suggested to Richard Hickox who was conducting the concert that it was such a pity that Grainger hadn’t included one when the rest of the orchestra was so enormous.
During the interval of the rehearsal Richard wrote out a sensational part for organ at the end of the work, and my recording of that Prom has become a prized possesion!!
Thanks Brian, very interesting, and an understandable response, which convinces me that JEG thinks similarly and that an organ is indeed in the mix, above, just at the right moment. Best, Colin.