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 ...

So, next time you hear the rapt, silken poetry of The Lark Ascending, give a thought not only to Vaughan Williams the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Son of a Gloucestershire clergyman and blessed with a private income, Ralph Vaughan Williams was never a man in a hurry. Not until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown ...

Two writers reveal the folk music and mysticism behind English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Vaughan Williams - War hero who created evocative soundtrack to England's rural idyll His ravishing music has become the soundtrack of a nation. Just a few notes of the stirring strains of Ralph ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams. Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain.