The life and times of Frederick Delius

9:25am Monday 30th January 2012

1862: Fritz Theodor Albert Delius born in Bradford.

How opinions were split on memorial

Amber Hiscott’s Delius sculpture in Exchange Square, Bradford, between the Crown Court and the Great Victoria Hotel

9:15am Monday 30th January 2012

Right from the start of 1993 there was public controversy about Amber Hiscott’s Delius sculpture.

Devotee Tasmin Little on why Delius swings!

Violinist Tasmin Little, who directed the week-long Delius Inspired festival in Bradford

9:06am Monday 30th January 2012

Posterity is perhaps the only enduring test of an artist’s work. Seventy-six years after Delius died, performances of his compositions are being well-received.

Events galore to mark composer’s birth

9:03am Monday 30th January 2012

A series of major events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Delius has been announ-ced by The Delius Society, including a four-day Delius Celebration at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and St George’s Hall, Bradford (October 17 to 20).

Composer’s final days

A portrait of Delius unveiled before a group of civic dignitaries, around the time of its completion in the early 1930s

8:56am Monday 30th January 2012

In storage at Cartwright Hall in Bradford is a very special portrait of Delius.

Top five to introduce you to Delius’s work

8:56am Monday 30th January 2012

Want to try out some Delius but don’t know where to start?

Delius as seen on screen

A scene from Ken Russell's 1968 film Song Of Summer

9:00am Monday 30th January 2012

"A moody old man” is how Kate Bush described Bradford’s composer in an unusual song called Delius (Song Of Summer).

How the Delius name lives on

Paul Crompton at Delius Lived Next Door, which has a special corner devoted to the composer – who was indeed born next door

8:49am Monday 30th January 2012

A beautiful stained glass window of Bradford’s German Church bears the Delius family name.

Frustrated composer who found himself in Florida’s sunny climes

Frederick Delius in 1907, aged 45

8:41am Monday 30th January 2012

Fritz Theodor Albert Delius was born in Bradford on January 29, 1862, to parents who had come to England from Bielefeld, Germany. Julius, his father, was a prosperous businessman in one of Yorkshire’s great Victorian industries, wool.

Delius's unique musical legacy

Delius collaborator Eric Fenby provided ‘inspirational guidance’ to Julian Lloyd Webber

8:35am Monday 30th January 2012

No other composer polarises opinion like Delius. You either love or loathe his music. And it is rare to find someone who has grown to like it.



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