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Article: Delius: Finnimore and Gerda.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- March 9, 1998
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British music has had a tendency to sound a bit provincial: re-creating subdued British landscapes, rehashing early English composers, remaining too beholden to decorum. Frederic Delius (1862-1924) was the one who pointed it toward cosmopolitanism. Born in Yorkshire into a German emigre wool-merchant family, he was destined for that trade and sent by his father on business trips to Germany, France and Norway. Playing as much hooky as possible, young Fritz learned to play the violin poorly and the piano rather better.
Refusing to have more wool pulled over his eyes, he took off for Florida and promptly failed as an orange grower, but managed to get some formal ...
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Article: Werner, Gerda L.
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July 26, 2002 ;
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...Werner, Gerda L. Friday, July 26, 2002 Werner, Gerda L. (nee Jacob) Age 88, of Racine, passed away Wed., July 24, 2002 at St. Mary's Medical Center. Gerda was born in Rib Lake on Dec.1, 1913, to John and Johanna ...
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