Two Welsh folksong arrangements by
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gan mlynedd i 'nawr and Tros y mor, and An Angelus for strings by Sir Henry Walford Davies will receive their world premiere performances.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams;2 Angels on horseback; 3 Malta; 4 The Achille Lauro; 5 A cocktail of vodka and beef consomme; 6 Women's curling; 7 Five 8 RAF Cranwell; 9 The League of Nations; 10 The fox
Verity Sharp traces the journey from the bold gestures of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes and
Ralph Vaughan Williams' 6th Symphony through to the first stirrings of modernism with the early works of Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto in A Minor provided a contrasting piece.
English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams is the success of the last decade.
New voice professor Charles Turley will sing "The Songs of Travel" by
Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Histoires naturelles" by Maurice Ravel and "Men With Small Heads," a recent group of songs by Lori Laitman, in a Faculty Artist Series recital on Tuesday.
"In the tradition of the late 19th Century virtuoso violin concerto, notably of Brahms and Bruch, the work is full of rich and memorable tunes, the slow movement in particular reflecting Stanford's Irish heritage with its mimicking of Irish traditional melody." Stanford, he said, was a prolific and versatile composer and hugely influential, having taught a generation of British composers including
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.
ASUMMER series of afternoon concerts celebrating the work of English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams gets under way in Coventry tomorrow.
O Thou Transcendent is a film about one of England's greatest artists, the composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams, by the celebrated documentary-maker Tony Palmer.
6 A few minutes of music by William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar, Gerald Finzi,
Ralph Vaughan Williams or Benjamin Britten.
Her schoolteachers at public school in London had included the great composers Gustav Holst and
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The UO Symphonic Band, directed by Todd Zimbelman, will perform
Ralph Vaughan Williams' `English Folk Song Suite,' David Holsinger's `On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss,' Eric Whitacre's `Sleep,' Frank Ticheli's `Cajun Folk Songs,' the march from Paul Hindemith's `Symphonic Metamorphosis' and the overture to Leonard Bernstein's `Candide.'