So, in 1923, he composed his English Folk Songs Suite for them. Today, it’s the orchestrated version of the work, assembled by Gordon Jacob, that we most commonly hear. Beginning with the sprightly ...

Vaughan Williams was a proudly British composer ... so, in 1923, he composed his English Folk Songs Suite for them. It was originally commissioned by the band of the Royal Military School of Music and ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams was under the spell of English folk music when he wrote his English Folk Song Suite in 1923. We hear it played in concert by an ensemble called Sinfonia da Camera ...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams ... original shape and planting multiple English folk tunes in its pages. This beloved fantasia ...

The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams — for ... wife Adeline Fisher to the folk song collector Lucy Broadwood, who in effect introduced the composer to demotic English song. The Captain’s ...

Up to a point, Vaughan Williams’s background and upbringing were typical for an upper-middle-class English boy ... including collecting folk song. Vaughan Williams’s folk-song researches ...

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, now regarded as ... who used traditional folk songs for inspiration. VW and hand-picked colleagues assiduously collected ...

The first Penguin Book of English Folk Songs appeared in 1959, under the editorship of Ralph Vaughan Williams and AL Lloyd, and has been a resource for generations of singers who have continued ...

When is a band concert not a band concert? When it’s the Vermont Philharmonic woodwinds and brass performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1923 English Folk Song Suite. Music Director Lou Kosma conducted ...

By David Allen Ralph Vaughan Williams ... English music as he found it — neither Elgar’s imperial grandeur nor the examples of his tutors, Parry and Stanford — but sought through folk songs ...

Although not necessarily directly influenced by the war, this piece became something of a symbol of the English ... his own career! Vaughan Williams was a collector of folk songs.