Archives for August 2, 2017

Ian Bostridge sings and talks about Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Is My Team Ploughing?” This setting of A.E. Housman’s poem, an excerpt from Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge, is accompanied by an instrumental ensemble conducted by Bernard Haitink:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.”

A.E. Housman, “The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism”