When white-haired, British-born Frederick Delius died in 1934 after twelve years of paralysis and nine of total blindness, he was still one of the least appreciated of eminent modern composers. Though ...
Composer Frederick Delius lived in a French village for the last 40 years of his life. He had a lovely garden behind his cottage, and in the summer of 1908, Delius was inspired by his garden. From a ...
For years a gaunt Englishman has lain paralyzed in the village of Grez-sur-Loing, France, unable to go among men and hear them praise his music as “greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]” ...
THERE is no equivalent of the Bruckner organization to make propaganda for the music of Frederick Delius, and probably it’s just as well, because the art of Delius requires no apologists, although it ...
The composer Frederick Delius is often pictured as the blind, paralysed and caustic old man he eventually became, but in his youth he was tall, handsome, charming and energetic. Advertisement ...
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Edinburgh's annual international festival of the arts, founded to boost morale in the austere days after World War Two, has opened its 65th season with an acclaimed version of ...
Baritone Leon Williams and The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay join the orchestra to celebrate English composer Frederick Delius with his Sea Drift and Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song. The ...
When he was a young man Frederick Delius ran away from his home in northern England to his uncle’s citrus plantation in Florida. He shares his experiences during our music this evening with his ...