tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post395595329926727462..comments2024-03-29T14:09:49.674+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Today is the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birthJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-30637073848265856622022-10-15T15:29:51.736+01:002022-10-15T15:29:51.736+01:00That Three Choirs Festival performance is where He...That Three Choirs Festival performance is where Herbert Howells first met RVW. Howells' daughter, the actress Ursula, was named after RVW's second wife.<br />Frank Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447989626809704972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-81460327167259135272022-10-13T23:01:44.829+01:002022-10-13T23:01:44.829+01:00Thank you for sharing this - I somehow failed to c...Thank you for sharing this - I somehow failed to catch up with it at the time of the original Lockdown Sessions series by the Philharmonic.<br /><br />"The Tallis Fantasia is that most British of things, a modernist trailblazer that we’ve persuaded ourselves is a piece of cosy pastoralism. A good performance of the Fantasia needs to rewild it to restore some of the astonishment of the original 1910 audience at this ‘queer, mad work by an odd fellow from Chelsea’."<br /><br />https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/art-tackles-social-distancing-and-for-once-actually-wins-philharmonia-sessions-reviewed.<br /><br />I remain unconvinced by the "distressed" interior of Battersea Town Hall after the post-fire reconstruction, which makes it look funereal.Lang Rabbiehttps://twitter.com/langrabbienoreply@blogger.com