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RalphGail Heriot

By Thomas A. Smith

It is entirely possible that Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending as performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1972 is not the most beautiful music ever created by mortals.  But you can’t prove it by me.  That it was written in 1914–not exactly a banner year for beautiful things–makes it all the lovelier.