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Article: Portrait of a genius driven by emotion ; Ralph Vaughan Williams was a great English composer, creating rousing and sweeping melodies that summed up everything that was wonderful about this green and pleasant land.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2008
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Ralph Vaughan Williams was a great English composer, creating
rousing and sweeping melodies that summed up everything that was
wonderful about this green and pleasant land.
He chronicled hymns and preserved great traditional music and, as
John Bridcut's brilliant documentary reveals, he was a man of
incredible and enduring passion.
Bridcut's film brilliantly juxtaposed Vaughan Williams' music
with events in his life - the trauma and conflict he felt when,
while married to the invalided Adeline, he fell in love with another
woman, and the joy when his passion was finally realised.
The love affair with Mrs Ursula Wood was an open secret among
friends, but it was a story that remained fairly ...