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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vaughan Williams writing in a letter to the First Dean of Liverpool Cathedral in 1931. The full letter may be a response to an informal offer of a Lambeth Doctorate in Music in recognition of RVW’s contribution to the English Hymnal, Songs of Praise and Oxford Book of Carols.

English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Organised by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference in street literature in all its fascinating aspects. We are inviting speakers who wish to present a 20-minute paper. Find out how to submit www.efdss.org/about-us/wha...

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vaughan Williams' The Wasps will be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Jérôme Kuh, as a mythologically inspired curtain-raiser before the UK premiere of David Buckley’s powerful new opera, Oracle.

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Oracle with the BBC Concert Orchestra | Southbank Centre

The UK's largest arts centre & the heart of London's cultural life.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Flos Campi, for viola, wordless chorus and small orchestra (1925). Performed here by Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir and Frederick Riddle (viola). Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA9c...

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does this resonate with any compsers? 🎶

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Opening its doors in 1931, Dorking Halls is home to the Leith Hill Musical Festival, held annually in the spring. Vaughan Williams had close ties to the town, and a bronze statue of him, baton poised, by artist William Fawke, was unveiled in 2001 by Ursula Vaughan Williams.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Need to locate an RVW score or set of parts to perform? Our catalogue offers a keyword search and lists the duration and principal publisher of each work. Find it here 👇

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Published works - Vaughan Williams Foundation

Search our catalogue of Ralph Vaughan Williams' published scores and find the principle publisher and contact details.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Four recordings supported by the VWF have been nominated for Gramophone Awards 🎉: 🎶 Sean Shibe: Vesper 🎶 Liza Lim: LIM String Creatures 🎶 Laurence Osborn: OSBORN Tomb! 🎶 Cyrille Dubois & Anne Le Bozec: Vaughan Williams 'Landscapes' Full shortlist here 👇

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Gramophone Awards 2026: The Shortlist - Gramophone

Read the reviews of all the recordings shortlisted for Gramophone Classical Music Awards this year in our Reviews Database

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Explore a selection of photographs, many from the collection of Ursula Vaughan Williams, available for download and for editorial use online and in print, via the Discover page of our website 📷

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At the request of Vaughan Williams himself, the majority of our funding is used to support composers. Find out more via our website 💻

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 Funding opportunity alert! Applications for the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub composer scheme 2026/27 are now open. LSO Soundhub supports composers in trying out new ideas and provides peer-to-peer networking and support. Details here 👇

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Soundhub | London Symphony Orchestra

A platform for emerging composers to experiment and collaborate, with access to resources, support from industry professionals and LSO musicians and staff.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vaughan Williams arranged Bushes and Briars, a traditional English Folksong he discovered in 1903 via a singer he met in the village of Ingrave in Essex. This version is conducted by Imogen Holst and features a member of the Purcell Singers. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7s...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Discover section of our website offers a wealth of free resources relating to the life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Find it here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Get ready! 📅 Applications for general funding open soon 💻 See our website for guidelines on how to register, how much you can apply for, and what to include in support of your application.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now that the school year is well underway, it's worth highlighting the free Key Stage 1 resources available to music teachers, created by the Musica Teachers' Association, backed by the VWF, to teach about the work of Vaughan Williams. Explore here 👇

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Ralph Vaughan Williams 150 Anniversary - KS1

These resources were created for use in the teaching of RVW’s work in Key Stage 1

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We support composers! 🎶 The VWF offers funding towards the performance, commissioning or recording of music by professional composers who have not yet achieved a broad national or international reputation, or by composers entering the profession. Funding applications reopen on October 1, 2026.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A BBC Radio 3 musical route plotted to Ralph Vaughan Williams' orchestral setting of the English folk song Dives and Lazarus. Featuring other settings of the same tune, music by RVW's film collaborator Doreen Carwithen, and folk song settings down ages. 📻 👇

Music Map - Vaughan Williams - Dives and Lazarus - BBC Sounds

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores a piece of classical music, mapping it in a musical landscape.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Coming up on Saturday, September 19, in Cheltenham: The Holst Birthday Concert - A programme of songs by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams, performed by Gareth Brynmor John (baritone) and William Vann (piano). Details here 👇

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The Holst Birthday Concert - What's On - Holst Victorian House

A programme of songs by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams performed by Gareth Brynmor John (baritone) and William Vann […]

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are absolutely delighted that four recordings supported by the VWF are nominated for Gramophone Magazine Awards! 👏 These include Cyrille Dubois and Anne Le Bozec's Vaughan Williams 'Landscapes' - nominated in the vocal category.

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Landscapes' - Gramophone

Anyone who enjoyed Cyrille Dubois’s previous excursions for the NoMadMusic label in the five Britten Canticles and Schubert’s Winterreise (2/24, shortlisted...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Explore our online archive of images via our website 💻

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ralph Vaughan Williams spent many years living close to Dorking in Surrey. His connections there included being closely involved in the setting up of Dorking Halls. Dorking Museum has created a walking trail for visitors, taking in key RVW-related spots: dorkingmuseum.org.uk/ralph-vaugha...

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Vaughan Williams provides insight into conducting in this letter to composer Hubert Clifford.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I am collecting the most wonderful songs among the fishermen here.” In January 1905, Vaughan Williams travelled to King's Lynn in Norfolk and collected dozens of folk songs. This article by James Rye explores the story: circato.co.uk/the-songs-va...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Get ready! 📅 Applications for general funding open soon 💻 See our website for guidelines on how to register, how much you can apply for, and what to include in support of your application.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A Century in Song - a special project as part of the Royal School of Church Music Centenary celebrations, charting changing tastes, styles and aesthetics in church music over its first 100 years, featuring one piece of choral music from each decade. Find out more www.rscm.org.uk/centenary/ce...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Advice from Vaughan Williams to young composer Arthur Butterworth on how tastes and influences can change with age and experience.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This Friday, at Wells Library, Wells-next-the-sea 🌊 Caroline Davidson discusses her book The Captain’s Apprentice, an award-winning examination of Vaughan Williams’ journey into folk music and his visit to Norfolk to find songs ‘from the mouths of the singers’. 12pm. Booking via the library.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Find out more about the support we offer via our website 💻

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"This is music about the struggles to hold onto life in the jaws of old age and death" - @bachtrack.com on the recent performance of Vaughan Williams’ 9th Symphony at the BBC Proms. Read the full review here: bachtrack.com/review-manze...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Live at the BBC Proms: Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Carmel Smickersgill. 📻 👇

BBC Proms - 2026 - Vaughan Williams’s ‘Tallis Fantasia’ and Symphony No. 9 - BBC Sounds

Live at the BBC Proms: The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & conductor Andrew Manze

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Vaughan Williams recounts a meeting with Elgar at the Three Choirs Festival...

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was one of the great symphonists of the 20th century. He remains one of our most popular composers. Explore his life and work via a significant collection of images and correspondence held in our archive and accessible via our website.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In this BBC Radio 3 programme, Jonathan Swain surveys recordings of Vaughan Williams' 9th Symphony and makes a recommendation. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CD Review - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 - BBC Sounds

Jonathan Swain surveys recordings of Vaughan Williams' 9th Symphony.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you can find a few moments this weekend, this 1984 film by director Ken Russell tells Ralph Vaughan Williams' story through the eyes of his widow, Ursula Vaughan Williams, with personal remembrances from those who knew him. 📺 👇

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Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Symphonic Portrait Directed By Ken Russell 1984

Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Symphonic Portrait directed by Ken Russell I really enjoyed watching this recently. I felt that Ken Russell and Ursula Vaughan Williams were kindred spirits with a wonderful…

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"In the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thousands of pieces of correspondence relating to the life and work of Vaughan Williams can be found on our website ✉️ These often include messages or observations from Ralph, and there are also letters from Adeline and Ursula Vaughan Williams. Explore: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/let...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We support the work of composers, including live performances, tours, development schemes and commissions.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This Friday at the BBC Proms! 🎶 Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, including Vaughan Williams' Symphony Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Symphony No. 9, and a commission from Carmel Smickersgill.

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Vaughan Williams had strong views on the context in which work took place 🎼

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Everybody’s project and financial need is different, and competition for grants is stiff. Explore the VWF's grant bands below. These provide guidance only – trustees will consider every application individually in context.

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How much can I apply for? - Vaughan Williams Foundation

Read the conditions of funding awarded by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In case you missed it... Vaughan Williams was a devotee of the poet Walt Whitman, carrying a volume of his work to WWI. This BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature sets out to discover what it was about Whitman’s work that so appealed to the composer. 📻 👇