Ursula Vaughan Williams ... She published “RVW,” a well-regarded biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, in 1964. She wrote lyrics for “The Sons of Light,” “Four Last Songs” and parts ...

That Vaughan Williams should have invited his mistress ... You are mine at last!" Ralph and Ursula's affair flourished during the early years of the war, though it remained frustrated by the ...

By David Allen Ralph Vaughan Williams understood what his fate was ... Vaughan Williams started the symphony after he met Ursula Wood in 1938, his eventual second wife, who offered him musical ...

Ralph (pronounced rayf) Vaughan Williams also set her poem “Silence and Music” to music. Born Joan Ursula Penton Lock into a military family in Malta in 1919, she met the composer in 1938 ...

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Ralph dropped everything and arrived with only one half of his face shaved. Their affair began shortly afterwards. Vaughan Williams was captivated by Ursula's beauty and vitality, and the romantic ...

Ursula Vaughan Williams was most famous for being the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's second wife. However, she was a published poet who contributed poems for her husband to set and collaborated ...

The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Herbert Howells and Charles ...

Ralph vaughan williams is the quintessential English composer ... but in his late sixties he fell in love with Ursula, then a drama student of 27. He was particularly taken with her stockings ...

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 ...

Widow and biographer of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams; Born March 15,1911; Died October 23, 2007. Ursula Vaughan Williams, who has died aged 96, was a poet and author who wrote librettos for her ...

Up to a point, Vaughan Williams’s background and upbringing ... (ancestors included Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood). Young Ralph began to compose at 6, then spent two years at the Royal ...