Ursula Vaughan Williams ... She published “RVW,” a well-regarded biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, in 1964. She wrote lyrics for “The Sons of Light,” “Four Last Songs” and parts ...

By David Allen Ralph Vaughan Williams understood what his fate was ... Vaughan Williams started the symphony after he met Ursula Wood in 1938, his eventual second wife, who offered him musical ...

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 ...

That Vaughan Williams should have invited his mistress ... You are mine at last!" Ralph and Ursula's affair flourished during the early years of the war, though it remained frustrated by the ...

Ralph dropped everything and arrived with only one half of his face shaved. Their affair began shortly afterwards. Vaughan Williams was captivated by Ursula's beauty and vitality, and the romantic ...

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 ...

A stunning new film about composer Ralph Vaughan Williams challenges the myths that ... and previously unseen footage, of his widow Ursula, who died last month, together with reminiscences by ...

Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams is the greatest ... and the composer’s wife Ursula. Musically, Vaughan Williams uses a children's choir to narrate the story of the birth of Christ.

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 ...

Charles Frend’s Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills came out in 1948, complete with a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Britain’s greatest living composer expanded on his thematic ideas to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams — for many the quintessence of Englishness — dominates the BBC ...

They nurtured some of the most serious scholars of the period, and at least one of the most justly and lastingly celebrated of English musicians – Ralph Vaughan Williams, the subject of a new ...