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 ...

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 ...

O Love Divine,” one of the hymns that Ralph Vaughan Williams set as part of his efforts to enliven the music of Anglican worship. The tune, named “Down Ampney” after the Gloucestershire ...

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 ...

Down Ampney, the picturesque Cotswold village of Vaughan Williams’s birth, is also the hymn-tune to which we sing ‘Come down, O Love divine’ . With or without the words, it provides a perfect ...

Its first performance is Let All the World in Every Corner Sing: Ralph Vaughan Williams @150 to commemorate the anniversary of the English composer’s birthday this Saturday at South Main Baptist ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams — for many the quintessence of Englishness — dominates the BBC ...

Charles Frend’s Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills came out in 1948, complete with a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Britain’s greatest living composer expanded on his thematic ideas to ...

Michigan St. The program features Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Astor Piazzolla’s Bandoneón Concerto “Aconcagua” and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

But if this is our national music, it is a toothless pastiche. By Matthew Gilley This year “The Lark Ascending” by Ralph Vaughan Williams was voted Classic FM listeners’ favourite piece of classical ...

The ensemble Key Chorale will take audiences out on the water with a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams masterwork “A Sea Symphony” Friday and Saturday. Artistic Director Joseph Caulkins ...