Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting ...

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, In the Fen Country, Overture to the Wasps, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Serenade to Music. Vaughan Williams himself went to Norfolk and gathered folk tunes that he ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life ...

August will mark 100 years since the beginning of WWI. This series examines the wartime experiences of the eras most gifted musical personalities. No one throws a “going out of business” party like ...

The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 150 years ago on Oct. 12, is one of those rare artists who are more often loved than deeply known. A few of his pieces—the lush setting of “Greensleeves” and ...

Ithacans will celebrate 50 years of music-making by several of our local concert-performing organizations this year. The ...

The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers will celebrate a milestone 50th anniversary with a sweeping and ambitious program on May 2, featuring A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...

Flutist Laura Gilber, violist Mary Hammann, and harpist Stacey Shames make up an ensemble with unusual but not unheard-of instrumentation. During a recent visit to Washington, D.C., the trio stopped ...

An all British programme featured music by Thea Musgrave, Vaughan Williams and William Walton, with Antoine Tamestit an expressive and sensitive soloist in the latter’s Viola concerto Antonio ...

More than 150 voices will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Lauridsen and others ...

Ursula Vaughan Williams, 96, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and after his death wrote his biography, died Tuesday in London, said Gwen Knighton of the English Folk Dance and Song Society ...