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Currently listening to the Romance from the Serenade in A Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
It was his first composition after leaving the Royal College of Music and
contains the first expression of that brand of heroic music peculiar to the
great VW. I find it very moving. And did you know that his second wife was
nearly forty years younger than him? I find that pretty moving, too, especially
since he was once described by an associate as looking like an old sofa with
the stuffing falling out.
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