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Delius, Fritz (Frederick) Theodor Albert (1862) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
...Frankfurt 1919 . During the 1914–18 war he left Grez for Eng. for a time, composing several works, including a Requiem (text by H. Simon ) ‘dedicated to the memory of all young artists fallen in the war’. This was perf in 1922 and was so savagely criticized for its ‘atheism’ that it remained unperf again for over 40 years. Shortly after the war he wrote a vc conc. and the incidental music to Flecker's play Hassan ( 1923 ). In 1922 Delius developed the first signs of progressive paralysis, and four years later he became blind and helpless. From ...
Plastic Ono Band Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band , the artist’s first, and arguably finest, solo album. Inspired by Arthur Janov’s Primal Scream Therapy, the album was a veritable exorcism of all Lennon’s past demons, and a harrowing yet therapeutic glimpse into the abyss of his soul from the bleak atheism of ‘God’ to the Oedipal ‘Mother’, the self-mocking ‘Working Class Hero’, the elegiac child-like wonderment of ‘Remember’, the confrontation with the self in ‘Isolation’ and the spine-chilling, macabre nursery rhyme ending, ‘My Mummy’s Dead’. Voormann was the sole survivor from...
