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Died. Frederick Delius, 71, blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...
...Dean Brigg's influence will be respected and honored as long as the tradition of Harvard liberalism retains the character which he has so largely contributed; and even though he no longer labors, he remains the dean of American scholars and teachers...
Under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play this evening at 8 o'clock at Sauders Theatre in Cambridge a program consisting of Mozart's ""Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," Dolius' "Brigg Fait," Wagner's "Forest Murmurs" from "Siegfried," Wagner's Overture to "Der Fliegende Hollaender," and Sihelius' Second Symphony...
...gradually installed at Syke Mill, drive a painful wedge between employer and employes. The Oldroyds own Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis...
Because Sir Thomas Beecham is in Manhattan now, conducting the Philharmonic Symphony, he had no hand in performing the Songs of Farewell. But with the Philharmonic he played three of Delius' best-known works: Brigg Fair, Summer Night on the River, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring...