Williams

(1) Charles Lee, Winchester, May 1, 1853—Gloucester, Aug. 29, 1935; organist; Arnold; 1882-98 org. at Gloucester Cathedral; cond. of festivals; c. cantatas, music, etc. (2) Charles Francis Abdy, Dawlish, July 16, 1855 —Milford, Feb. 27, 1933; took music degrees at both Cambridge and Oxford; later pupil Leipzig Cons.; organist at various posts; authority on Greek music and Plain song; c. church music, choruses for “‘Alcestis,”’ Anti gone,’ ‘“‘Agamemnon.” (3) Ralph Vaughan, b. Down Ampney, England, Oct. 12, 1872; composer; grad. Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Mus. D., Oxford and Cambridge; studied R. Coll. of Music with Moore, Parry, Stanford, Wood, Parratt, Sharpe, Gray, also with Ravel and Bruch; was early active as an organist, and has been extension lecturer at Oxford; it is, however, as a composer that he has estab. a rank among the outstanding musical figures of the day; as a symphonist he has an especial aptitude, and some of his music has been influenced by English folk-song in which he has been a leading investigator; esp. popular in other countries are his “‘London” Symphony, a programmatic work depicting sights of that metropolis, but welded cleverly into impre ive symph. form; and his ‘Pastorale’’ Symphony, which is exquisitely compounded of English country traditional tunes treated with the hand of a poet and an expert craftsman; his extremely large output includes also stage works and various forms of chamber music, part-songs, choral arrangements of folk-music; in his later music, W. has shown a tendency to depart from descriptive writing into more abstract realms and to court aggre ive di onance; c. (opera) ‘Hugh the Drover’; (ballet) “Old King Cole’’; (orch.) “Three Impre ions,’ “In the Fen Country,’ ‘‘ dies”; ‘“‘Bucolic Suite’; ‘‘ Heroic Elegy”; “Serenade”; “Fantasia on @ Theme by Thomas Tallis’; suite for “The Wasps” of Aris toph anes; Fantasie for piano and orch.; “Concerto Academico” for vin. and_ orch.; “Studies in English Folk Music’ for vin.; a string quartet, (masque for dancing) ‘‘Job’”’; Symphony in F (no program or title); 2 piano quintets; (choral works) ‘‘Toward the Unknown Region’; “A Sea Symphony’; ‘The Garden of Proser pine’’s five “Mystical Songs”; (oratorio) “Sancta Civitas”; 3 Nocturnes for barytone with orch.; (song cycles) “The House of Life,” ‘Songs of Travel,” “On Wenlock Edge’’; arr. Purcell’s “Welcome Songs,” also many folk-songs, madrigals, etc.; ed. “The English Hymnal.” (See page 544.) Wil’liamson, John Finley, b. Canton, O., June 23, 1887; conductor, educator; studied with Bispham Wither spoon, also Otter be in Coll.; hon. Mus. D., Wooster Univ.; served as dean of Ithaca Cons.; founder and dean of Westminster Choir School, now at Princeton Univ.; and cond. Choir, toured U. S. and Europe; c. and arr. choral works.