Word: briggs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...