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Ursula Vaughan Williams, 96, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and after his death wrote his ... She published “RVW,” a well-regarded biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...
Ursula Lock, writer and poet: born Valletta, Malta 15 March 1911; married 1933 J.M.J. Forrester Wood (died 1942), 1953 Ralph Vaughan Williams (died 1958); died London 23 October 2007. Ursula ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams's (born October 12, 1872; August 26, 1958) ... he married the poet and librettist Ursula Wood at the age of 80 and moved from his home of many years (The White ...
Ursula Vaughan Williams, who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a poet, librettist and author as well as the widow, since 1958, of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose second wife she became in 1953.
Two years after Adeline's death in 1951, Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams married, and she became his literary collaborator and the duster of his musical reputation for the rest of his life, and ...
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 ...
A new documentary reveals how famous British composer, Vaughan Williams, his wife and young mistress shared their life - and bedroom - for 13 years.
The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Herbert Howells and Charles ...
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 ...
Saylor’s work is an attractive and readable introduction to this great figure. As he admits, it cannot replace the pair of seminal books from the 1960s, Michael Kennedy’s survey of Vaughan Williams’s ...
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’ bitter symphony. ... He indicated to a passage in Ursula Vaughan Williams’ biography of her husband in which the composer becomes “more and more upset as he read about the ...