Solo opportunities for tuba players outside the orchestra are few, although the English composer Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams wrote a fine concerto for tuba and orchestra (1954).

NPR: Young Tuba Player Gets Nod from Phila. Orchestra

Leighton Vaughan Williams of Nottingham Business School reckons the government now garners more from taxing the profits of betting firms than it used to get from taxing the bets directly.

ECONOMIST: Gambling addicts

Surprising acceptance, perhaps, given endless twittering about the replacement of British cultural values, particularly among the young, by coarse American cultural values--Rambo for Henry V, Warhol rather than Turner, Eminem in place of Elgar or Ralph Vaughan Williams.

FORBES: Atlantic Crossing

Save for the "weeklies" that Jimmy reads (he favors the New Statesman) and the snippets of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony heard on the radio, there are no cultural markers on display beyond the text of the play itself.

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