Percy Grainger in Queen's Hall - 22 November, 1907
from Delius: A Life in Letters 1862-1908, page 314:
'last Friday I had a jolly evening. Mother & I went and hear F. Delius "Appalachia" performed at the Queen's Hall. I do so wish you could have heard it. I dont say it's a perfect work at all, or even a work of pure genius; but it did strike me as poetic, & individual & genuine, & most corageously experimental. The new things he tried for seemed to me really pluckly & of vital interest & not the usual dull commonplace (& usually perfectly "safe") wheezes of so much so called "modern" stuff. Then such a lot of it was piano & … more >>
Delius, and Lionel Carley (ed.), Delius: A Life in Letters 1862-1908 (), p. 314. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1462140725984 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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Appalachia
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Date/Time | 22 November, 1907 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Notes
Letter from Percy Grainger to Nina Grieg, November 1907.