{"product_id":"23487-vaughan-williams-ralph-kennedy-michael-a-vision-of-airplanes-a-motet-for-chorus-and-organ-vocal-score-copy-inscribed-by-the-composer","title":"Vaughan Williams, Ralph. (1872–1958) [Kennedy, Michael. (1926–2014)] A Vision of Airplanes: A Motet for Chorus and Organ. Vocal Score. Copy inscribed by the composer","description":"\u003cp\u003eOctavo.  27 pp.  Lithographed.  No PN.  Title inscribed by the composer in blue ink: \"Michael [Kennedy] from \/ RVW.\"  Original wrappers.  Slightly foxed and soiled; else in very good condition. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the library of critic Michael Kennedy (1926–2014), who was a close friend of the composer and became his biographer in 1964.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThe critical school which claims that Vaughan Williams wrote solely in a comfortable pastoral style needs to check its facts, especially in the face of the extraordinary setting of this work's text from the prophet Ezekiel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA vision of aeroplanes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was written for Harold Darke (who had conducted the first performances of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTe Deum in G\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eValiant-for-Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and was first performed under his direction on 4 June 1956. With its cataclysmic organ writing and whirling voice-parts it is a highly imaginative setting without a trace of pastoralism. Epic in style and proportion, the ‘vision’ has more than a hint of the film scores which had preoccupied Vaughan Williams for the previous ten years.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093847822495,"sku":"23487","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/VaughanWilliams_Ralph_Kennedy_AVisionofAirplanes23487b.jpg?v=1740164824","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/23487-vaughan-williams-ralph-kennedy-michael-a-vision-of-airplanes-a-motet-for-chorus-and-organ-vocal-score-copy-inscribed-by-the-composer","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}