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Delius; Life's Dance - 'The Filey Brigg Affair'.

English Composer Frederick Delius 1862 - 1934. The Filey Brigg incident left the young Delius stranded as the tide came in around the notorious rocky spit known as Filey Brigg. He was in later years to recall a very lucky escape from drowning having ventured out against the rising tide. The warnings are still there today and brave folk still venture out to sea across the long treacherous rocky outcrop forming the outer Northern part of Filey Bay. After over twelve years since the video 'Delius the Yorkshireman' was made, I recently revisited Filey, walking several miles along the beautiful coast to Filey Brigg. The Delius Family were regular visitors to the North Yorkshire coast and Delius had a great fondness for the area revising nearby locations including Scarborough in subsequent years. DELIUS THE YORKSHIREMAN was a video biopic featuring the composer as a cricket loving, no nonsense Yorkshireman. His German father had become a naturalized Englishman and plied his wool business most successfully in Bradford Yorkshire. Although music as a profession was then considered to be demeaning for a gentleman Fritz Delius was given every encouragement to pursue a love of music and was playing the violin at the age of seven. The English landscape, in particular that of the North and Yorkshire must have had great influence upon this impressionable young man. Walking across the nearby moors and later riding a pony must have given him intimate contact with those wild, North Country landscapes that lay just beyond the dark satanic mills of industry. The Delius family took regular holidays generally at Filey on the Yorkshire coast. Fritz was the fourth of the fourteen children of Julius and Elise and an entire railway carriage was required to take them away hitched-up to a regular service. Filey and that area of coast to Scarborough had left a deep impression on Delius who in later life would often reflect on his adventures thereabouts, the cricket matches and getting stuck on Filey Brigg as the tide was coming in. (something that is very easy to do today!) Even in old age blind and severely disabled he would ask Fenby how the Yorkshire cricket team was doing and indeed take an interest in anything the Yorkshire Post newspaper had to offer. Eric Fenby was another Yorkshireman born and bred in Scarborough. The two 'Tykes' developed a way of working together musically, but beyond that formed closeness on a more personal level. This combination of circumstances, perhaps, made not just by pure chance; is the basis for the remarkable story that was to follow. Much has been said recently about Delius not being a genuine English composer perhaps he is not as idiosyncratically English as Elgar, but much of his music breaths out the unmistakable feel of our landscapes in particular those of the North. His setting of the English folk song Brigg Fair, what could be more 'English'! On the hearing of the first cuckoo in Spring, although based on a Norwegian folk song; Delius' lovely tone poem richly exhales of the English countryside as much as Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending. Delius was disillusioned with the way English music happened to be preoccupied with religious themes and felt that his work was neglected here. One would conclude - the natural reaction of a real genius utterly focused on his own way! This film follows the young Fritz up the coast through the small villages where he played cricket to the resort of Scarborough here Delius attended the yearly cricket festival and knew all about what went on at the Spa. Fritz was later to change his name to 'Frederick' or 'Fred', another affirmation of his inherent Englishness. What's more the German speaking Frederick Delius apparently never entirely lost his broad Yorkshire accent! Cosmopolitan yes, maybe but fundamentally a Yorkshireman. - 'Tha a can allus tell a Yorkshireman - but not much!' Ha ha..... The video includes clips from the original video. A link to the entire 'Yorkshireman' video appears on the 'end screen' to this video. Music track is - 'Life's Dance' - by - 'Frederick Delius'...... The Delius Collection. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Norman Delmar The Heritage Records. c. 2012 Apologies for any copyright issues, this video is not made or uploaded for profit or personal gain.