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In the footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams
 

I curated and directed an event for the 2022 Cheltenham Music Festival featuring a walk around the village of Down Ampney and a private recital in the oak-panelled drawing room of Vaughan Williams' birthplace.

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The walk began at All Saints' Church, Down Ampney (where Vaughan Williams' father had been vicar) and made a circuit of the village while aspects of the composers' life and music were explained, in particular the connection between music and place. 

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Ending at what was formerly the Vicarage, students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire performed Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folksong and Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons.

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