I was very interested to see in the Musical Times that an Amateur orchestra in Bolton are going to perform ' Paris ' ! 37 With best wishes for the New Year to you and Mrs. Delius , and again very many thanks for the photograph .
In his introduction Mr. Foss gives us a short sketch of Delius; contributions by Rogber Quilter, Charles Kennedy and Percy Scott.
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The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Musical criticism (2)
... of words with Latin and Greek derivations , so that instead of the conventional Italian terms that normally adorn musical scores he showed a marked preference for such expressions as “ louden lots ' and ' soften bit by bit ' .
Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic...
This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early ...
William Robert Anderson of the Musical Times reviewed a Promenade Concert performance in 1924 in a similar vein: E.J. Moeran's Rhapsody is the kind of music that, in itself arousing no great enthusiasm, makes one hope to hear more from ...
The mother dares to take some of the royal gold for her child, but the page catches her. Amahl defends his mother. The kings tell her to keep the gold. 'The child we seek doesn't need it. He will build his kingdom on love'.
In Edward Mason, however, Warlock came across someone who had a genuine enthusiasm for Delius's music and was eager to pass it on to him. Given the earlier connections, he soon caught the Delius bug and began to idolise his new hero.