“I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.”

— Thomas Beecham

Of the music of Frederick Delius
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2

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British conductor and impresario 1879–1961

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