Is it not possible that the English composer has something to say to his own countrymen that no one of any other age and any other country can say? Omnibus, this week and next week, is devoted to the life and work of one of the greatest and best-loved British composers of our century: Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM. Next week Andre Previn, the distinguished American conductor, talks about the music of Vaughan Williams and conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from his symphonies. Tonight's film is a biography, and those appearing in it are:
Sir Adrian Boult, Roy Douglas, Sir Keith Falkner, Imogen Holst, Dr Herbert Howells, Sir Gilmour Jenkins, Maud Karpeles, Michael Kennedy, Elizabeth Maconchy, Ralph Nicholson, Harry Steggles, Jean Stewart, Sir Michael Tippett, Ursula Vaughan Williams
The Bookham Choral Society, The Boys of Charterhouse School