Tag: Delius

• The Gladness and Sadness of Spring – in Picture, Poem, and Music

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  19th Mar 2023

  Consciousness, Environment, Language, Literature, Music, Poetry

  Christina Rossetti, Death, Delius, Life, Poem, Rebirth, Springtime, The First Cuckoo, Tree

• A Late Lark Singing …..

  This is one more, spontaneous, one-off interjection into my current series of posts on my religious ‘paradigm’, triggered by my previous one on the music of Frederick Delius, who set to supremely beautiful music, a poem of W. E Henley entitled “A Late Lark Singing”. When we see a radiant, wide spread, deep red sunset,…

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  15th Jan 2022

  Literature, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Scottish

  Assisted dying, Death, Delius, Henley, Poem, Red Sky, Sunset

• One of the Truly Great Stories of Musical History

  This is another one-off interjection into my current series of posts on my religious ‘paradigm’, triggered by this beautiful little 20 minute film cum podcast based on the story of one of the most poignant and inspiring happenings in the history of music. It tells how a very young man became the means of helping…

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  15th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Composer, Literature, Music, Poetry, Religion

  Delius, Eric Fenby, Florida, Nature Mystic, Thomas Beecham

• Delius – Romance, Emotion and Beauty in Music

  Since I’ve now written a fair number of blogs, it’s time I put in a word for one of my favourite composers, Frederick Delius, who was born in England of German parents in 1862. He knew he had to be a composer when he spent a year or so in Florida, and was utterly entranced,…

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  4th Jan 2021

  Literature, Poetry, Religion

  Beecham, Delius, Loss, Love, Mystic, Nature