This picture was done while I was listening to one Andrew Ford's Saturday morning program on ABC radio national. It was an interview with .......who made a film about the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, "O Thou Most Transcendent" was the name of the film.
...The music......Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis......it is about war! RVW volunteered in WW1 as a stretcher bearer- he was too old to be called up. So brave.
Shatteringly beautiful music (one announcer described it so) - sorry I have trouble remembering details.........
Well, I had already drawn in the white and blue bit which looked like a spirit baby- when they started talking about RVWilliams having a wife with a severe illness and his wife gave him permission to have a friendship with another lady who had an abortion of his baby- so cruel was society in those days. Strange that I might have pre sensed that a baby spirit was involved.
Ralph VW often had a most sad expression on his face. His violin piece (concerto?) "The Lark Ascending" is one of the most loved pieces of music ever written. I certainly love it tremendously.
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Insert 4/6/2015
ABC Radio Classic FM will this weekend broadcast 100 pieces of music nominated and voted as the best Swoon Music by listeners. The Countdown begins Friday. "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" is one favourite, and I hear it definitely as swoon music. It could well win!
Some time ago Classic FM conducted many 100 "best music" programs - Compositions. Popular. Baroque. Movie music.
Ralph Vaughn Williams won the best all time favorite for his "The Lark Ascending".
He touches our hearts and souls. Bless him forever!
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This was originally drawn in colour pencils,
and later painted up with acrylics, watercolour-wise,
red, blue and yellow only, in layers, as image above.
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