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	1	Jahoda, Gloria. (Frederick Delius.) THE ROAD TO SAMARKAND: FREDERICK DELIUS AND HIS MUSIC. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1969). 248 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "When high-spirited young Fritz Delius of Yorkshire, England, came to Florida in 1884 to plant oranges...(it) was only an excuse to escape his parents, who had forbidden him to try earning his living at the one thing he really wanted: music. In Florida he found it - the music of the American people, especially the American Negro. He never produced a crop of organges, but he began his career as a composer...Thirty-eight years before Gershwin's 'Porgy a n d B e s s ' he had finished the first Negro opera, 'Koanga'...'The Road to Samarkand' was the title of a pilgrims' chorus Delius wrote for a Broadway play. It was also, he knew, the road every man must travel in search of fulfillment. His pe r so na l ' ro ad t o Samarkand' began on an American orange grove he never forgot." Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light edgewear/rubbing, faint label removal mark at bottom of spine, two small closed tears - one wth c rea ses . V G/G + Price: 10.00 USD
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