Part two in our series looking at composers and how WW1 impacted their lives and work. We continue with Ralph Vaughan Williams and look at his time spent on the Eastern Front.

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 ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams News. ... Four people were killed in the attack, blamed on the Irish Republican Army. Odd News // 8 years ago. The Almanac. UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014.

This year’s festival – the 33rd – will present an exploration of the life and work of English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. This coming weekend’s programs, August 4-6, are on the theme ...

Vaughan Williams and His World, the 33rd Bard festival, argued during its first weekend that he was a composer who intended his art to be of use, who saw his search for beauty through music as a ...

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 for his own ...

Ralph Vaughn Williams is one of the most significant symphonic composers of the 20th century, and his nine works in the medium compare well with those of Mahler, Sibelius, Shostakovich, or any other ...

Like most rank-and-file Europeans, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams did not see the war coming. ... Williams immediately volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps.