Article: Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony & Vaughan Williams. (Book Reviews: Works).(Book Review)

Article: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Musical Opinion;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... widow of Ralph Vaughan Williams, removed the ... respectively to the Ninth Symphony of 1958, his ... death. Ursula Vaughan Williams made her final ... recording of that Ninth Symphony, could stop ... be by Ralph Vaughan Williams. That is the ...

Article: A whole life in one night; BIG DAY: Sir Andrew paid handsome ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: David Mellor Vaughan Williams: Anniversary Prom 54 Royal ... better celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams's achievements than that which ... Gloucester Cathedral in 1910, to his Ninth symphony, first performed only a few ...

Dictionary definition: Ninth Symphony
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      275 words ...Ninth Symphony. Although several composers published 9 syms., e.g. Mahler, Bruckner, Dvořák, and Vaughan Williams, this term to the general mus.-lover means one work, Beethoven's Sym. No.9 in D minor, the ‘Choral’.

Article: The lost art; Next week's Proms performance of a Finnish ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... London of a work by a Finnish composer, Kalevi Aho, his ninth symphony. Aho is 54 years old, a former lecturer at Helsinki University ... finale. The benchmark for the British symphony was Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose third symphony of 1922 eulogised the world destroyed ...

Article: Classical: The curse of the ninth It's 100 years since its ...
The Independent - London;  January 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... symphonies with the last as visionary testament are Dvorak and Vaughan Williams. So presumably it was the unprecedented scope, not to ... message" of Beethoven's Choral Symphony that induced the ninth symphony syndrome, quite as much as the timing of his death. Bruckner ...

Article: Ascent of 'middle Britain' sees Vaughan Williams ...
The Scotsman;  March 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Lark Ascending, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams after he served as a stretcher-bearer ... great litany of classical giants, Vaughan Williams, whose great- uncle was Charles ... proof of the continued adoration of Vaughan Williams 50 years after his death was the fact ...

Dictionary definition: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
A Dictionary of English Folklore;      700+ words ...Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958 ... musical scene in the 20th century, Vaughan Williams was also the one who made most use ... in his compositions. By 1903, Vaughan Williams was already aware of folk-song ...