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Dedicated to widening the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of Ralph Vaughan Williams. A society dedicated to widening the understanding and appreciation of the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Oct 12, 2023 · Ralph Vaughan Williams is a paragon of duality: a perfect synthesis of old and new, of tradition and innovation, of light and dark. His neo-nationalist compositional style is distinctly and ...
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The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958, Hugh Cobbe ed. Oxford, 2008. 750 of the composer's 3,300 letters, along with extensive explanatory footnotes. An essential reference work for specialists, fun for the generalist to dip into. Michael Kennedy, The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford, 1994.
The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes in his compositions. He collected his first song, Bushes and Briars, from Mr Charles Pottipher, a seventy-year-old labourer from Ingrave, Essex in 1903, and went on to collect over 800 songs, as ...
A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 12 October 1872; d. London, 26 August 1958) was the most important English composer of his generation . Vaughan Williams always pronounced his first name “Rafe” - (“Vaughan” rhymes with “born”). His father was a rector. Ralph was very young when his ...
