I get irritated nearly every night when I look down the TV
listings and find that now I have all these damn channels there’s nothing I
want to watch on any of them. But tomorrow... tomorrow...
...there are two hours of programmes about Ralph
Vaughan-Williams, my favourite classical composer. Two hours! All in one day!
That should be a feast for both the ears and the spirit – some of his music
truly belongs in another dimension.
And did you know that when VW was aged 81, he married a
woman (a poet and quite a beauty, by all accounts) forty years his junior? He
did.
And then he died.
Happy, no doubt.
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