Jonathan Coe on Ravel and Vaughan Williams and the Music of Nations

Tue 10 Nov · 17 Queensberry Place London · SW7

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Jonathan Coe on Ravel and Vaughan Williams and the Music of Nations Tue 10 Nov 2026 Books & Ideas Talks Highlights of the Month An evening of conversation and live music Jonathan Coe ‘s new novel, Lessons in Harmony , imagines the unlikely friendship between the celebrated French composer Maurice Ravel and his British pupil, the rising Ralph Vaughan Williams, in Belle Époque Paris.

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