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Ralph Vaughan Williams

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote pastoral music during profoundly turbulent times.
    Music
    Celebrating the 150th birthday of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
    NPR News
    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 traditional tunes all over the British Isles, Vaughan Williams famously produced gently modal folksong fantasies evoking England's "green and pleasant land."