Scott Stilson


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When I claim to be Anglophile, what it seems to me today to mean more than anything else is that I deeply enjoy some of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Not just the evergreen chestnuts The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, either. If you were to translate the electrical impulses of my heart into sound, you would hear those, yes, along with most of his nine symphonies, at least one song cycle, some incidental music, and Job: A Masque for Dancing (maybe his greatest work).