Down Ampney, the picturesque Cotswold village of Vaughan Williams’s birth, is also the hymn-tune to ... After his wife’s death in 1951, he married the poet and librettist Ursula Wood at the age of 80 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was a man of contradictions. Though born ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...