The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was a proponent of nationalism in music and was active in reviving the English folk song. The son of a clergyman, Ralph Vaughan Williams was born at Down Ampney in Gloucestershire on Oct. 12,...

Robert Matthew-Walker on how the Pilgrim progresses after 50 Years The death on 22 October, at the age of 96, of Ursula Vaughan Williams, widow of Ralph Vaughan Williams, removed the last surviving link with the composer who, more than any other, epitomised...

2d ed. By Michael Kennedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [xii, 322 p. ISBN 0-19816584-6. $45.] Assessing the contribution of Ralph Vaughan Williams to British music has never been simple. At his death in 1958, his reputation maintained a precarious, not to...

Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and produced his biography, has died at age 96.She died Tuesday in London, Gwen Knighton of the English Folk Dance and Song Society said Thursday. Vaughan Williams, who was president of the society, had been...

Ernst Ludwig EhrlichGENEVA (AP) — Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, a Jewish religious philosopher who escaped the Nazis and later helped bridge the gap between Christians and Jews, has died. He was 86.Ehrlich died Sunday at his home in Riehen, according to the family notice in Swiss...