The audience is requested not to refrain from talking durin… - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was a British composer and folksong-collector who, in the early 20th century, played a key part in the forming of a distinctively national style of English classical music.

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The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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