Overture from the incidental music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for the Cambridge Greek Play production of Aristophanes’ The Wasps at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams’ first of only three forays into incidental music. —Wikipedia
Overture to "The Wasps"
Composed in 1909
By Ralph Vaughan-Williams
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