I just concluded a lively 40-minute conversation with composer and musicologist Byron Adams, emeritus professor at the University of California, Riverside, and artist-in-residence at this year’s recently-concluded Bard Music Festival.

Byron, an authority on the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, co-edited (with Daniel M. Grimley) the festival’s tie-in book of scholarly essays, “Vaughan Williams and His World,” issued by University of Chicago Press.

I thank him for his time and generosity in sharing a few of his thoughts, in so doing, allowing me a stronger foundation on which to construct an article about the festival for an upcoming edition of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal.