My grandad, like me, a working class man, introduced me to this music as a child in the early 1960's. The music of Mr. Vaughan - Williams has remained with me throughout my life and always delivered great pleasure and will always continue to do so. It has sustained me through hard times, strikes, unemployment, divorce, and sound tracked the happy times, family holidays by the sea, treks across moorland and heath. It pops, unbidden, but like an old friend, into my mind and heart when I look at the sea, golden fields of barley and wheat, or soaring birds in clear blue skies. Thank you Mr. Vaughan- Williams and grandad Jack for a lifetimes musical love.
Someday, I'm going to read a biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams. I'm currently reading about Andrew Jackson. But whenever I'm ready to read about Vaughan Williams, the book I chose was Vaughan Williams (Composers Across Cultures), and it's by Eric Saylor.
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The Chad Mitchell Trio had a lot of mocking-1960s-conservatives garbage that I was much too young to understand when listening to my Dad's albums, but they also had some really beautiful performances. This song with its pinpoint harmonies is one of them. "'Overhaul! Overhaul! Let your davit tackles fall! Put your boats on the water!', cried he. 'Brave boys! Put your boats on the water!', cried he." Really a brilliant interpretation of a beautiful song.
Beautiful, but not pure VW but a completion of an unfinished work by VW by composer David Mathews, mostly basing his additions on the opening section, "with some new material in the middle," according to notes by Lewis Foreman. It was completed and orchestrated by David Matthews in 2009.
Charles wants a different coronation in May. Zadok will be played of course, as it has for almost 300 years. Wow, a barge on the Thames with the LSO and choir of Westminster Abbey. If only.
RVW came into my life by chance. My background does not entertain such 'so called' music. But VW knows my true self. How odd is that. This piece came to me at a major junction in my life. It puts into a language, that which I cannot describe even to myself. It is not all his original work, but it does an incredibly good job of mimicking the sentiment he owns. I am lost in it, thankfully. Better that reality.
I know that Ralph V. Williams was a man of great human feeling, he understood melancholia and our struggle to live, just beautiful music, what a gift he is to us all
I'm listening to this for the first time, while still reeling from the news that a dear friend of mine, my music teacher, has died. It fits my mood perfectly, better than any words can.
This is a score actually written by David Matthews based on fragments of a slow movement for a proposed cello concerto intended for Pablo Casals. It was composed in 2009 and first premiered at The Proms in 2010. The fragments were written by RVW at about the same time as the 5th Symphony and some have noted a kinship with the Romanza of that symphony and the Lark Ascending. It is VW's musical sensibility to the core.
Vaughan Williams'melody has a special appeal to the Japanese hearts Vaughan Williams'melodies have a unique nostalgic feel that touches the hearts of Japanese people From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
This might be so, but his music is essentially British, his musical soul is a product of English life,but music is a universal language, your statement reinforces this.
We're a simple landed people, yours and mine, but with a similar history of islanders struggling for nationhood. However all we both look for is "a small measure of peace that all men seek, and few ever find" to quote a certain film. The works of RVW call to us because they're the sounds of such themes from a time in which our people gave much to achieve something like that peace that we might enjoy the fruits of such a thing, and thereby still hear RVW in our time as it was in those days. It's good that your people still hear this and not just enjoy it, but also find something spiritual in it as our people did in those days. 元気でね、友よ
Vaughan Williams often uses the pentatonic scale which is an inherent part of Japanese music. A lot of English folk music uses modal scales and the pentatonic scale. It certainly touches the soul!
First RVW piece I heard as a young teen was the evocative Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, many years later I managed to trace the original piece by Tallis, another great favourite. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8bPFAKxb9IQ.html
Do people realize that this is anti-semitic? It's based on blood libel dating back to the 12th century. It wasn't true then and it's not true now. I am shocked that a modern American group would sing it.
It's an English group from the 1970s and they intentionally removed the antisemitic text, which just turns it into a cool song. There are Jewish members of the band too.
I haven't listened to RVW for nearly forty years.I studied his work in music appreciation at school. Oh how I should have carried on listening and enriched my life. There are no words in the English language to say how beautiful his works are. It's never to late to carry on listening.
My parents exposed me to RVW throughout my childhood, but I was young and into the Beatles, Motown, Stones, etc. As you so beautifully stated, I am closing the circle by returning to the music that formed me. All of me. RVW to wit. I am listening to everything I can, absorbing as much beauty as I possibly can without my heart bursting open from the sheer beauty of his compositions.
