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Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?
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The unlikely friendship between French and English composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams has inspired a tender and generous novel In 1907, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams confided to the critic Edwin Evans that he was finding his own music “lumpy and stodgy”. His musical education at the Royal College…
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Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?
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