[Afamilyatwar-list] Vaughan Williams

[Scott Filderman]

Whoever had the truly inspired idea to use the end of the first movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sixth Symphony as the theme for AFAW did as great a service to that wonderful composer as did whoever chose the last section of Rossini’s William Tell overture for the Lone Ranger radio/television program here in the USA. As a lifelong Vaughan Williams admirer, I never tire of hearing that plaintive hymn that opens and closes every episode. Stanley Kubrick did a similar favor for Richard Strauss by choosing Also Sprach Zarathustra to open his epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sometimes ya just gotta go classical!
Always a favorite game to Name That Tune as episodes of The Onedin Line roll by! MORE Vaughan Williams! Fifth Symphony, right?


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