This exciting work, by one of todays most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams uniquerelationship with fellowcomposer Gustav Holst is examined as well as his relationships with personnel at the Royal Military School of Music, the BBC and the Salvation Army. Theres much more in this hard-to-put-down volume forconductors, performers, students andaficionados!
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