I once saw a TV interview with Russell who related that, while filming this picture at the actual site of Delius’ house at Grez-sur-Loing, Eric Fenby himself showed up to observe the day’s shooting, and broke down into tears as he beheld young Christopher Gable playing FENBY HIMSELF, seated at the side of Delius in his wheelchair, taking down musical dictation. I spoke with Fenby about the filming, but he seemed to wish to avoid his deeper feelings about it.Prior to that, I had seen the film in May of 1971 on the local Chicago PBS station. Every sentence has the richly beguiling charm of his conversation and that ,asterpiece in autobiography, A Mingled Chime." However, his misplacement of the score and subsequent blindness delayed its Genres: 73 min. "Robert Anderson, Review of "The Fenby Legacy" (1982). Try and track down a copy and you won’t be disappointed. New York, Knopf, 1961, 1959, 1961.

Rating: 8.2. Delius began work on this orchestral tone poem in 1918, when he titled it Poem of Life and Love. Fenby) - Hallé Orchestra 1970 6. ; LCCN: 60-16206 ; OCLC: 3936106 ; LC: ML410.D35; Dewey: 927.8 ; blue cloth in green dustjacket ; slight mottling of covers ; slight edge wear on dustjacket ; "The names of Delius and Sir Tomas Beecham are linked in a manner unique in the history of music. By far the most impressive player in this small cast though is the much-missed Christopher Gable, taking the role of Fenby in his first foray into acting after retirement from leading roles with the Royal Ballet. A Song of Summer [Import anglais]: Frederick Delius: Amazon.fr | Formats: CD, Vinyl, MP3 |Livraison gratuite dès 25 € d'achat Use the HTML below. ‘Song of Summer’ proves his worth as a filmmaker of sensitivity and quiet – the scene where, in flashback, Delius watches his last sunset before his sight fails him, is worth watching this film for on its own. But it’s this Delius film that will probably endure. Russell believed it to be his best work and it’s tempting to see it as at least partly an expression of his own persona – Delius the romantic, impetuous and dreadful genius figure foreshadowing the cantankerous old devil that Russell would become. In his twenties, Delius contracted syphilis. This biography was written in fulfilment of a personal pledge to Jelka Delius, and at last makes clear the facts of the composer's life, disentangling them from ambiguity and legend that his previous biographers--and even Delius himself, when in playful mood--have surrounded them. Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. Beecham) - LSO 1967 3. 9780486298511. A Song of Summer is a tone poem for orchestra by Frederick Delius, completed in 1931. Tags: ken russell, See This, Song of Summer: Frederick Delius. With the Delius film we see Russell kneeling before a man he considered an artist, before he fell for the grandiose idea that, since he was an artist himself, whatever he produced must be art.Yes, once upon a time Ken Russell was in control and was actually able to turn out a beautiful and sensitive film bio–how perfectly appropriate here, since the subject was composer Frederic Delius.Max Adrian was superb and SO believable. Delius explained the context of the tone poem to Fenby by saying: The Film "Song of Summer" was screened–but just barely! The result was a string of accomplished films on the arts, Russell’s 1962 film on Elgar (called Elgar) being the one that made his name.

Suffice to say that the film transcends being merely a biopic primarily through the subtle and poignant portrayal of Delius’s long suffering wife, played with such admirable restraint by Maureen Pryor.