Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Sources and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Sir Mark Elder, CBE
- Preface
- Chapter 1 1862–1888 Youth
- Chapter 2 1888–1892 The Young Composer in Paris
- Chapter 3 1893–1901 Coming to Maturity
- Chapter 4 1902–1905 The Great Noontide and Beecham
- Chapter 5 1906–1910 Acceptance and Friends
- Chapter 6 1911–1914 Inspiration Unabated
- Chapter 7 1915–1918 Winding Down
- Chapter 8 1919–1934 Fenby and the Last Years
- Chapter 9 The Songs
- Chapter 10 1934 and After
- Appendix 1 Delius’s Works in Chronological Order
- Appendix 2 Delius’s Diploma and Reports from The Leipzig Conservatorium
- Appendix 3 Programmes for the 1929 and 1946 Delius Festivals
- Selected Further Reading
- Index
Appendix 3 - Programmes for the 1929 and 1946 Delius Festivals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Sources and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Sir Mark Elder, CBE
- Preface
- Chapter 1 1862–1888 Youth
- Chapter 2 1888–1892 The Young Composer in Paris
- Chapter 3 1893–1901 Coming to Maturity
- Chapter 4 1902–1905 The Great Noontide and Beecham
- Chapter 5 1906–1910 Acceptance and Friends
- Chapter 6 1911–1914 Inspiration Unabated
- Chapter 7 1915–1918 Winding Down
- Chapter 8 1919–1934 Fenby and the Last Years
- Chapter 9 The Songs
- Chapter 10 1934 and After
- Appendix 1 Delius’s Works in Chronological Order
- Appendix 2 Delius’s Diploma and Reports from The Leipzig Conservatorium
- Appendix 3 Programmes for the 1929 and 1946 Delius Festivals
- Selected Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The 1929 Festival
12 October Queen’s Hall
Orchestra of the Columbia Graphophone Company; conducted by Sir Thomas
Beecham
Brigg Fair
A Late Lark (first performance: Heddle Nash)
A Dance Rhapsody no. 2
Sea Drift (Dennis Noble, London Select Choir)
In a Summer Garden
A Village Romeo and Juliet (excerpt: Pauline Maunder, Heddle Nash, London Select Choir)
16 October Aeolian Hall
An unnamed small orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
A Song before Sunrise
Seven songs (Olga Haley)
Cello Sonata (Beatrice Harrison and Evlyn Howard-Jones)
Summer Night on the River
Air and Dance (first performance)
Six songs (John Goss)
Three Preludes
Dance for harpsichord Five Piano Pieces (Mazurka and Waltz, Waltz, Lullaby, Toccata) ﹜ Evlyn Howard-Jones
Six songs (John Armstrong)
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
18 October Queen’s Hall
BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Eventyr
Cynara (first performance: John Goss)
Piano Concerto (1906 version: Evlyn Howard-Jones)
An Arabesque
Appalachia (Royal College of Music Choral Class and BBC National Chorus)
23 October Aeolian Hall
Dora Labbette, Heddle Nash, Arthur Catterall, Evelyn Howard-Jones, London Select Choir, Virtuoso String Quartet
Three unaccompanied partsongs:
The Splendour Falls
On Craig Dhu
Midsummer Song
Four songs (Dora Labbette)
Violin Sonata no. 1
Three Songs (The words by Shelley) (Heddle Nash)
To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water
Four songs (Dora Labette)
String Quartet
24 October Queens’ Hall
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
North Country Sketches
Songs of Sunset (Olga Haley, John Goss and London Select Choir)
Violin Concerto (Albert Sammons)
A Dance Rhapsody no. 1
Gerda (the last two ‘pictures’ of Fennimore and Gerda) (Pauline Maunder, John Goss, London Select Choir)
1 November Queens’s Hall
BBC Wireless Orchestra, Miriam Licette, Astra Desmond, Tudor Davies, Roy Henderson and Philharmonic Choir; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
A Mass of Life
The 1946 Festival
26 October Royal Albert Hall
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Luton Choral Society; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Over the Hills and Far Away
Song of the High Hills (Freda Hart and Leslie Jones)
Incidental music to Hassan
Appalachia
4 November Royal Albert Hall
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Choral Society; conducted by Sir
Thomas Beecham
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- Delius and his Music , pp. 501 - 504Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014