Though this witty music sounds unmistakably English, it also reflects the composer's three months of intensive study with Maurice Ravel, who commented that among all his pupils, only Vaughan ...

Houston Chamber Choir presents Let All the World in Every Corner Sing: Ralph Vaughan Williams @150 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 24 at South Main Baptist Church, 4100 Main.

This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth. So we have been hearing a lot of him. Jay plays two pieces by him—two of his best, and most typical. There are also ...

And if you didn’t know that Vaughan Williams had studied with Maurice Ravel for a few months before completing this symphony, then the visual appearance of the fourth bar would surely suggest that.

The third investigated the fraught relationship between Britain and France at either side of World War I, focusing on the influence of Ravel on Vaughan Williams during their lessons in 1907 and ’08.

Vaughan Williams grumbled in 1950. “The object of art is to stretch out to the ultimate realities through the medium of beauty. The duty of the composer is to find the mot juste.