We live in a culture where apology, a change of temperament or evolving ideological alignment are considered signs of ...

That inspired Bax to compose perhaps his most famous work, ... Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a gentle, jovial bear of a man not averse to stealing kisses from young musicians, ...

On Sunday 8 June, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will bring this magnificent work to life in a once-in-a-year performance, conducted by Artistic and Music Director Brett Weymark OAM. So begins A SEA ...

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by music director Andrew Constantine, presented music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Tchaikovsky in the Masterworks Series concert at Purdue Fort ...

Other great composers highlighted include Gerald Finzi, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar as well as Howard Goodall, whose setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord Is My Shepherd) is well known to ...

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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ bitter symphony. ... The most famous sentence in exploration literature was penned by Captain Robert Falcon Scott as his final journal entry on 29 March 1912, the presumed day ...

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 ...

The Proms can't survive without 'lowbrow' classical music. From Rachmaninov's 2nd to the Planets suite, the most beloved orchestral works are sometimes looked down upon as cheesy.

The Lark Ascending has been described as Ralph Vaughan Williams's ode to nature. Featuring the flitting and soaring notes of the violin, the work took inspiration from an 1881 poem of the same name.

Over its seven decades, the Royal Festival Hall organ has regularly hosted the greatest players of the day, including French legends Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé, Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani ...