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Article: The Vaughan identity ; He has been out of fashion for more than 50 years, but now composer Ralph Vaughan Williamss vision of Englishness is being celebrated once again
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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RALPH VAUGHAN Williams feels to me almost like family. I grew
up in the 1950s with his music on the radio and the tales of
my older sisters, who were evacuated during the war to sleepy
Dorking, where he lived in a house at the edge of the town. Beatrice
got taken with her class to sing for him at The White Gates on his
70th birthday, in October 1942. Very shabbily dressed, she recalls,
his socks didnt match. Her impression was confirmed to me recently
by a man whose father owned the photographers shop on Dorking
High Street. He looked like a tramp, said Paul Styles. My father
stepped out into his path one day and asked if hed mind sitting for
a portrait. He was very gracious ...
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