Vaughan Williams to Charles Myers (July 1933), in Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958, ed. Hugh Cobbe (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008), p. 234; see A London Symphony, four measures before ...

“That sweet city with her dreaming spires,” sings the chorus in Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy. It’s all too easy to make this work, composed during the years 1947-49, sound wallowing ...

The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 150 years ago on Oct. 12, is one of those rare artists who are more often loved than deeply known. A few of his pieces—the lush setting of ...

Musical and psychological portrait of classical composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, which explores the passions that drove this giant of 20th-century English music. Show more Fifty years after his ...

The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey. Skip to main content. EN . ... Oxford Dictionary of ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of our country's greatest ever composers. Born 150 years ago in 1872, he is known for creating a sense of Englishness in twentieth century music by drawing on his ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams understood what his fate was likely to be. “Every composer cannot expect to have a worldwide message, but he may reasonably expect to have a special message for his own ...

The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. One cannot study the life and aesthetic of Ralph Vaughan Williams without being struck by their paradoxes. Born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney ...