Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting ...

‘Vaughan Williams and His World,’ a program of concerts, lectures and discussions, pays homage to a British composer whose works—from symphonies to operas to songs—transformed 20th-century ...

Keith Alldritt's Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot—A Biography falls into the second category of musical biography, along with many of the drawbacks that accompany it. Alldritt is, by ...

Vaughan Williams and His World, the 33rd Bard festival, argued during its first weekend that he was a composer who intended his art to be of use, who saw his search for beauty through music as a ...

Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative The English composer deserves a fresh assessment as the world does (and doesn’t) observe the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Two writers reveal the folk music and mysticism behind English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Ryedale Festival is paying tribute to great English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in this year’s programme, as artistic director Christopher Glynn explains to Laura Reid.

The program will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Songs of Travel” and Aaron Copland’s “Old American Songs.” ...

As we get closer to the anniversary month of Ralph Vaughan Williams, a beautiful addition to the composer's celebrations arrives from Orchid Classics. The Five Mystical Songs are often heard in ...

WAYNE, PA — In an exciting commencement to its 2024-25 season, the Wayne Oratorio Society is set to present Ralph Vaughan Williams’ monumental work, A Sea Symphony. This choral masterpiece ...

Tom Service experiences musical time travel as he listens to "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with its magical interplay of ancient and modern. And film music ...