That should have marked Ralph Vaughan Williams from his cradle as bound, like his older brother Hervey, for the bench or the Civil Service, or for a quiet life of rural pottering-about.

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From a new CD by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, we hear the ensemble and conductor Jerry Junkin play "My Bonny Boy" from Williams' "English Folk Song Suite." ...

From a new recording on the Telarc label, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and conductor Erich Kunzel play the Fantasia on Greensleeves, by Ralph Vaughan Williams.