Delius is universally accepted as an English composer. However, he spent the
vast majority of his creative career in France, and his musical compositions
reflect at least as much of a French influence as an English one. He himself
admitted to feeling much more aligned with France than with England as a
musician. However, if you listen to A WALK THROUGH THE PARADISE GARDEN or any
of his other pastoral works, it is hard to mistake them for anything but English
in that unique English pastoral tradition of which Vaughan Williams,
Butterworth, Bridge, Holst, Grainger (Australian born, but worked in England and
the U.S.) were the most notable practitioners.
Karen Mercedes
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| Philosophy...means looking at things which one takes for |
| granted and suddenly seeing that they are very odd indeed. |
| - Iris Murdoch |
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