By David Allen 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 ...

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 ...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph ... verse of Vaughan Williams' majestic arrangement is a fauxbourdon, attributed to the Renaissance composer ...

Before he was sufficiently awake to be conscious of real pain, Ralph Vaughan Williams was dead at 85—probably his country’s greatest composer since Purcell, and one of the few since the ...

since Hugh Cobbe's enormous collection of Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958 (2008) and the death of the composer's second wife, Ursula, in 2007, who had ditched a deep moat around her ...

Karen Fletcher believes Ralph Vaughan Williams has "found his time ... Drama on 3 - People Everywhere Will Sing focusing on the composer's life after the death of first wife Adeline; and The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was a man of contradictions. Though born ...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph ... Williams never mimicked his teacher. Vaughan Williams the "pupil" was already an experienced composer when ...

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 ...