Chatto scores biography of Vaughan Williams song

Chatto & Windus has scored The Captain’s Apprentice: Biography of a Song by Caroline Davison, to publish for the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 02:19:34 UTC ]
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