On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 23:28:20 -0000, "D A Stocks"
wrote:

"ian batten" wrote in message
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On Friday, 1 January 2016 14:55:03 UTC, e27002 wrote:

Better, IMHO, if the New Elizabethan period was known for the music
Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Why? Good music is good music, whatever the genre.

Let's see what passes the test of time. I concede the Beatles show
signs of doing just that.

Whereas Vaughan Williams doesn't. His symphonies are rarely performed

I agree that RVW doesn't represent the reign of QE2 in terms of his music,
OK, so I accept that he is not "New Elizabethan"
but he is an important figure in British music. As a singer I have performed
the Sea Symphony a number of times, including 2 commercial recordings. This
is a work that (just) pre-dates Mahler's 8th, and is not far behind it in
terms of scale which isn't bad for a first attempt at a symphony. There are
a number of other works by RVW that are unlikely to be leaving the concert
schedules here and abroad any time soon.

To my taste his work is outstanding. It has great beauty, and is
quintessentially English. And, although he was an agnostic, his work
is identifiably Christian.

How wonderful to be able perform his work. You are clearly gifted and
privileged. Sadly I have no musical ability.

During my many years in those United States, listening to his work
would take me back to my childhood in England.

Britten has been dead for 40 years,

Britten is cold, and I am not fond of him at all.

however Tippett

Not known to me. I will listen to some of his work.

was active right up
until he died 20 years ago so he is a far stronger candidate to represent
the earlier years of QE2's reign.