Topic: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Why Desert Island Discs is still in the groove

Daily Telegraph, UK - 21 days ago
By Sue MacGregor. 7:30AM GMT . Comments . . It seems to have been around forever, Desert Island Discs; it's probably the most celebrated radio...

Music in the air

Obsidian Wings - 25 days ago
by Doctor Science Wednesday evening we did something I haven't done for decades: listened to world-class live music with no electronic component...

Two concerts with Menahem Pressler among remaining highlights of Music and Beyond festival, wrapping up July 17

Classical Ottawa - 217 days ago
(American violinist Rachel Barton Pine, who drew a roaring, whistling ovation in a late-night concert at the Mayfair Theatre July 15, will join...

Cellist Christian Elliott, pianist Frédéric Lacroix in recital June 24

Classical Ottawa - 239 days ago
(Christian Elliott. Ottawa Citizen photo by Julie Oliver) Ottawa cellist and composer Christian Elliott, who is visiting his hometown from his...

Ewashko Singers, Mozart's Cosi and Cathedral Choir among options May 15

Classical Ottawa - 281 days ago
(Pianist Jean Desmarais will perform solo pieces as part of an all-Mozart concert May 15) If you're a fan of choral music and opera, you have an...

Tenor James McLean to sing Vaughan Williams, Britten, others in April 6 recital

Classical Ottawa - 319 days ago
(James McLean) Toronto-based tenor James McLean, who sang the role of Pang in Opera Lyra Ottawa's production of Turandot last fall and has...

Lack of respect for Ralph Vaughan Williams

San Francisco Chronicle - 380 days ago
0 . To Joshua Kosman: Why doesn't Ralph Vaughan Williams get the respect he's due? He's just about my favorite composer, yet whenever I raise his...

Biography: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Helium - 473 days ago
in the 1930s as a tribute to the conductor Sir Henry Wood, I am again Ralph Vaughan Williams, the second son and youngest child of Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams and Margaret Susan Wedgwood, was born on the 12th of October 1872 in ...

Horror Music: 20th-Century western classical works expressing fear

Helium - 473 days ago
The emotion of horror does not seem to have been explored to any great extent by Western composers before the Twentieth Century. PROMETHEUS by Alexander Scriabin provides one example of such visions of apocalypse. Not many of the works of Twentieth-Century Western ...

Bird facts: Skylark

Helium - 477 days ago
When Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his famous and much-loved piece " Indeed, the alarming decline in numbers in recent years (75% between 1972 and 1996, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), is such that the skylark (alauda arvensis) is ...