Word: antartica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80 dean of Britain's composers (Sinofonia Antartica, Pilgrim's Progress); and Mrs. Ursula Wood, fortyish, widow-writer; both for the second time (his first wife died at 80 in 1951); in London...
...most composers, growing old means growing mellower. But for England's Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80, the process is reversed. Last week the Halle Orchestra unveiled his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, and it proved as bleak as its title. Public and press, long accustomed to warmth in Vaughan Williams, went away with a case of chills...