Ralph Vaughan Williams

Standard Name: Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Connections

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Friends, Associates Frances Cornford
FC also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare , Eric Gill , Bertrand Russell , Siegfried Sassoon , Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and Virginia Woolf .
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
xxxv
Instructor Sylvia Townsend Warner
When she moved to London, STW was committed to a career as a musicologist.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. vii - xvii.
xi
She studied music composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams and composed a Requiem for string quartet and voice (to words from...
Literary responses Dodie Smith
Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS 's friend Christopher Isherwood wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength...
politics Edith Lyttelton
In November 1938, EL signed a brief but pointed letter to the editor of the Times condemning the persecution of the Jews in Germany. (Dorothy Wellesley and Ralph Vaughan Williams were also among...
politics Dorothy Wellesley
Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter , Stafford Cripps , archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans , historian H. A. L. Fisher , scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley , sculptor Laura Knight , writers Edith Lyttelton and J. B. Priestley
Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
The Arts Theatre , Cambridge, staged a comic opera, The Poisoned Kiss; or, The Empress and the Necromancer, A Romantic Extravaganza, in which ES had collaborated, as librettist, with Ralph Vaughan Williams .
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Timeline

12 October 1910: Ralph Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony was...

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12 October 1910

Ralph Vaughan Williams 's A Sea Symphony was first performed in Birmingham.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
344
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 338

5 July 1931: Ninette de Valois's ballet Job, with music...

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5 July 1931

Ninette de Valois 's ballet Job, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams , was performed for the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
374
Clarke, Mary, 1923 -, and David Vaughan, editors. The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet. Pitman, 1977.
121

26 April 1951: Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera Pilgrim's...

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26 April 1951

Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams 's opera Pilgrim's Progress was first performed, at Covent Garden in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
404

2 April 1958: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony no. 9 in...

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2 April 1958

Ralph Vaughan Williams 's Symphony no. 9 in E minor premiered at the Royal Philharmonic Society concert, four months before the composer's death.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
414

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