Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) isn’t just one of the most important 20th-century British composers; he is one of the supreme figures of 20th-century music. Yet, though he ...

City Voices community chorus will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with “Music Rich and Strange.” The program of selections by 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. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The English composer deserves a fresh assessment as the world does (and doesn’t) observe the 150th anniversary of his birth. By David Allen Ralph ...

Wait a minute. You mean to say there's an important body of piano music written by one of the most beloved of all 20th century composers, whose Symphonies, "Greensleeves" and Thomas Tallis fantasias, ...

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 “Greensleeves” and ...

Dear Mr. Wolfe: I agree with you that Vaughan Williams' music, particularly his symphonies, have not gotten their proper place in the repertoire. There are a number of reasons for this. The main one, ...

Keith Alldritt's Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot—A Biography falls into the second category of musical biography, along with many of the drawbacks that accompany it. Alldritt is, by trade ...