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]” ...

The great English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham said of the Frederick Delius Violin Concerto of 1916, "it has considerable melodic beauty and is structurally entirely logical and effective. It also ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a young man, Frederick Delius ran away from his family's home in England to spend time at his uncle's citrus grove in Florida. During our music tonight we'll enjoy the musical journal he kept of ...