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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s best music has a popular, almost earthy quality that he shares with very few 20th-century composers. In other words, he is nice to listen to. Pieces such as “The Lark ...

Clarinetist Julian Bliss and pianist Julien Quentin perform English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folksong at the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. NPR does not offer or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Awardwinning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams With archived performances by conductor Sir Adrian ...

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 name among intellectual or musically educated types, eyes ...

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of 20th-century English music.

Tuba player Michael Moore says playing the tuba is like being the goalie in a hockey game. You don't have much to do the whole game, but when the puck comes you have to be ready. But on today's ...

There's a focus on hymn tunes this week, including some by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a repurposed folk tune, and a tune by Arthur Sullivan (the music half of that very successful ...