Ralph Vaughan Williams. Born: 12 October 1872, ... The piece conjures images of a lark flying over the English countryside, and is Vaughan Williams most enduring work.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Drawing on the influences of English folk song and Tudor polyphony, Ralph succeeded at reviving British ...

Perhaps most famous for The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis — regular ‘nation’s favourites’ — Vaughan Williams was a contradictory man, who refused a knighthood, but later ...

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 ...

Many of Vaughan Williams’s most famous compositions were direct settings of famous or newly discovered folk melodies. In the case of his Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, the inspiration was less ...

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, now regarded as one of the greatest, and certainly the most quintessentially British, composers ever produced in these ...

One critic wrote in the 1960s that Ralph Vaughan Williams “may turn out to be the most important symphonist of the century,” while also complaining about how seldom his works were performed.

Ursula Vaughan Williams was most famous for being the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's second wife. However, she was a published poet who contributed poems for her husband to set and collaborated ...

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

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 ...