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 ...

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 ...

It is always good to have an excuse to contemplate the condition of our culture, and the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, which falls next Tuesday, provides one. For those ...

Flutist Laura Gilber, violist Mary Hammann, and harpist Stacey Shames make up an ensemble with unusual but not unheard-of instrumentation. During a recent visit to Washington, D.C., the trio ...

A celebration of the music and life of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN OXFORD medical don who achieved global recognition for his work on heart conditions while completely redesigning Hertford College has died aged 98. Miles Vaughan Williams, the first full ...

The other day, however, I did something I rarely take time to do. I stopped working on anything, set aside over an hour to do so, and listened to Vaughan William's 1 st symphony, A Sea Symphony.