From our August mailing:
'Dear friends of OMS, It's been a bit too hot over the last few days to be very active but thankfully committee member Brian O'Riordan has been busy doing some research and produced a wonderful article about RVW for you to read. Your committee continues to meet via zoom - we'll let you know just as soon as we have any positive news for you. My vegetable patch is thriving and keeping me (and some friends) well fed and .......... yesterday I spent a super day at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham! Not at all crowded and FREE if you have a National Art Pass. Brian has sent me his article as a pdf file with lots of wonderful photographs but unfortunately Mailchimp doesn't allow one to embed a pdf file, so ... if you would like to read it just send a brief e-mail mail to me at [email protected] and I will forward the article to you. Here is a taster of the opening paragraph ............ Ralph Vaughan Williams (RVW) arrived in Watford toward the end of March 1915 and was billeted at 76 Cassio Road where he lived until late May. He had joined the War effort and he and his colleagues were undergoing training before departing for France. Photo: Vaughan Williams’ billet in Watford: 76 Cassio Road. It is the white house on the left. The houses are at the junction of Whippendell Road and Cassio Road. Vaughan Williams was 42 at the time and had joined up as a private at Duke of York’s HQ near his home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. He was already an established composer having published major works such as the Sea Symphony and The London Symphony, the opera Hugh the Drover, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and The Lark Ascending as well as compiling the English Hymnal and numerous Folk Songs..................'
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