Which composer, born in 1862, resisted joining the family wool business and went off to run an orange plantation in Floridabefore his family relented and paid for him to study music?
Frederick Delius Frederick Delius Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884, to manage an orange plantation; there he soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked
Paid Family Leave (California) and Family Coalition led by the Labor Project for Working Families, California was the first state to pass a law requiring the Paid Family Leave program. As of mid-2008, the only other states that had passed laws to offer paid family leave benefits were Washington and New Jersey. In 2009, five years after California's paid family leave law first went into effect, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from the same state, introduced H.R. 2339, the Family Income Responding to Significant Transitions (FIRST) Act, which would provide federal grants to states with existing paid family leave laws to implement and administer