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...Robins worked widely in various counties, his sketchbook shows, even in Essex, Shropshire and perhaps Northumberland....
...It also has a musical soundtrack composed by Benjamin himself, and no doubt channelling his twin influences of the more arcane end of 1970s progressive rock and the English pastoral of Ralph Vaughan Williams...
...The costume drawings had been done for Lucas in 1974 by the American illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, who has been rightly recognised for helping sell Lucas’s idea to sceptical producers....
...You might well have heard some of the poems set to music by George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, two composers who were fundamental to the revival of English classical music and did so much to...
...The rhapsody “A Shropshire Lad” by George Butterworth, killed at 31, is the strongest....
...Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams would have changed the course of post-war British music....
...The evening started with two actors reading poems from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad and imperceptibly their words blended into the opening of Butterworth’s orchestral rhapsody of the same name....
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