Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

Later composers who wrote chamber works for this quintet include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Colin Matthews, Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and John Woolrich.

These included Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England and Béla Bartók in Hungary.

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

Impressionism also gained a foothold in England, where its traits were assimilated by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and Frederick Delius.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Musical Impressionism beyond France includes the work of such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ottorino Respighi ( Italy ) and Cyril Scott and John Ireland ( England ).

Examples include works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Finnissy.

In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.

* Flos Campi by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is based on the book.

Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music two of Barnes ' poems, " In the Spring ", and ' My Orcha'd in Lindèn Lea ', in the " Common English " version (" Linden Lea ").

* October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer ( d. 1958 )

Ralph Vaughan Williams ' choral work Serenade to Music draws its text from the discussion about music and the music of the spheres in Act V, scene 1.

Herbert Howells wrote a Mass in the Dorian mode entirely in strict Renaissance style, and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor is an extension of this style.

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor harks back to the Renaissance style while exhibiting the vibrancy of new harmonic languages.

Other composers of major violin concertos include Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walton, Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Kan-no.

Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote concertos for piano and for two pianos while Britten's concerto for piano ( 1938 ) is a fine work from his early period.

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).

* Job: A Masque for Dancing, a ballet by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ravel maintained his influential participation with the SMI which continued its active role of promoting new music, particularly of British and American composers such as Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.

His closest students included Maurice Delage, Manuel Rosenthal, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alexis Roland-Manuel and Vlado Perlemuter.

It had also published The Yattendon Hymnal in 1899 and, more significantly, the first edition of The English Hymnal in 1906, under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and the then largely unknown Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In consequence, Foss actively promoted the performance and sought publication of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, Peter Warlock ( Philip Heseltine ), Edmund Rubbra and other English composers.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

In the first inning, Williams caught a line drive by Ralph Kiner, slamming into the Comiskey Park scoreboard and breaking his left arm.

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker.

Film critic Nick Schager wrote, " Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir in which star Ralph Meeker embodies Mickey Spillane's legendary P. I.

He has scored numerous dramas and comedy-dramas for TV including Ted & Ralph, Midnight Flight, Crazy for A Kiss, Hospital!

* " I Kiss Your Hand, Madame " w. ( Eng ) Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young ( Ger ) Fritz Rotter m. Ralph Erwin

Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

She then begins a job at Ralph Lauren in " The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss " where she is the coordinator of the women's collection.

Ralph Meeker ( November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988 ) was an American stage and film actor best known for starring in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, and in the 1955 film noir cult classic Kiss Me Deadly.

A public house in central Manchester, the ' Sir Ralph Abercrombie ', is named after him.

Producer Ralph Winter said, " We were not looking for someone to say ' Okay, I'll do it ', but people who were excited by the material [...] and would treat it as if it was the biggest picture ever being made.

More recent musicians who occasionally or consistently play roots music include Keb ' Mo ', Ralph Stanley, Jewel, John Denver, Chris Castle, Ricky Skaggs, and Jeremy Fisher, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary.

Other collectors included Henry and Robert Hammond in Dorset, the Reverend Geoffrey Hill in Wiltshire, Percy Grainger in Gloucestershire and, perhaps the most famous, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' ' Folk Songs from Somerset ', which provided themes for his English Folk Song Suite.

Apart from the standard adult voices ' Ralph ', ' Fred ' and ' Kathy ', and children's voices like ' Princess ' and ' Junior ', various novelty voices were included, like ' Whisper ', ' Zarvox ' ( a robot voice with melodic background sounds, with a similar voice called ' Trinoids ' also included ), ' Cellos ' ( a voice that sung its text to an Edvard Grieg tune, with similarly-singing voices like ' Good News ', ' Bad News ', ' Pipe Organ '), ' Albert ' ( a hoarse-sounding voice ), ' Bells ', ' Boing ', ' Bubbles ' etc.

Ralph Fiennes ' character in the 2006 film Land of the Blind mentions Action Directe as an example for a terrorist group whose names sound like rock bands ', along with The Weathermen, Black September and Red Army Faction.

The later ' Tooley ' designation is a corruption of the original Church of St Olave and the transformation can be seen on maps of the area from that of ' Ralph Agas ', through ' Braun and Hozenburg ' and John Roque and later which are labelling the church of that name ; ' Synt Toulus ', ' Toulas ', ' Toolis ', ' Toolies '.

The new chancel's architect was Ralph Adams Cram, known for such landmark Gothic churches as All Saints ', in the Ashmont neighborhood of Boston and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.

Some past performers include The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jackson Browne, Johnny Winter, Drive-By Truckers, DJ Logic, Peter Frampton, Gov't Mule, John Hiatt, Bruce Hornsby, Hot Tuna, John Paul Jones ( musician ), Ray LaMontagne, Phil Lesh & Friends, Umphrey's McGee, Little Feat, Living Colour, Branford Marsalis, Dave Matthews, Neville Brothers, New Orleans Social Club, North Mississippi Allstars, Phish's Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, John Scofield, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Marty Stuart, Taj Mahal Trio, Susan Tedeschi, The Derek Trucks Band, Bob Weir, Widespread Panic's John Bell, Dave Schools, John ( Jo Jo ) Herman, Todd Nance & Jimmy Herring, Kevn Kinney from Drivin ' N Cryin ', and Edwin McCain.