One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Fresh on the heels of my acquisition of Ursula Vaughan Williams’ biography of her husband, famed English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, as a discard from the Des Moines Public Library, comes this gem, now in the mail. Both books are quite pricey on the secondhand market; hence my snapping them up as library rejects.

Previously, I posted about my stunned reaction to Ursula’s “RVW” being turned loose, given Vaughan Williams’ significance as a composer and the fact that there could be increased interest in his work, given that this is his sesquicentennial year. (He was born on October 12, 1872.) Then I remembered my copy of Vaughan Williams’ “Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Other Writings” is a discard from Princeton University!

The Des Moines Public Library’s “collection management” policy can be found here, under “Collection Development and Programming.”

https://www.dmpl.org/connect/what-we-do/services-policies

I’m guessing there’s not a great demand for Vaughan Williams in Des Moines.