RVW Anniversary
Posted by Ralph Moore on October 13, 2022, 8:57 am
I hope readers were pleased with the collection of reviews celebrating the birth sesquicentennial. I wonder if anyone shares my irritation at the constant references to Vaughan Williams as a primarily "pastoral" composer. For all that he was a collector of folk songs, loved the English countryside and expressed that love in his music, so much of it is far more challenging than the justly famous "lollipops" like Dives and Lazarus, the Lark Ascending and Greensleeves - all of which which I love, but they are not the bulk or core of his work. The "Pastoral" symphony and the Romanza of the Fifth (which does not actually have much to do with the English countryside) notwithstanding, you have only to listen to his symphonies as a whole - especially nos. 4, 6 and 9 - to hear why the composer was irked by that label.
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RVW Anniversary - Ralph Moore October 13, 2022, 8:57 am
- Re: RVW Anniversary - Jeffrey Davis October 13, 2022, 9:35 am
- Re: RVW Anniversary - Rob Maynard October 14, 2022, 11:54 am
- Re: RVW Anniversary - nick barnard October 16, 2022, 6:48 pm
- Re: RVW Anniversary - dieter barkhoff October 29, 2022, 9:17 am
- Re: RVW Anniversary - Jeffrey Davis November 1, 2022, 10:08 am
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