“The radio announcer for Classic FM informs his audience that Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’ has landed, by popular vote, the number one spot in the station’s classical ‘Hall of Fame.’ The background is established: that Vaughan Williams is widely understood – sometimes loved, sometimes loathed for it – as the greatest representative, even as a symbol, of a comfortable, slightly saccharine English pastoralism.”
—Kevin Salfen, review of the film “O Thou Transcendent, The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams” (2010)
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