Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing his music-over the radio. Mostly he lies lonely, stricken, and what is worse, neglected...