Who is the composer of Rhapsody No. 1, named after and inspired by the county where Alfred Seaman was born?
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Title: Perinatal mortality
Passage: Preterm birth is the most common cause of perinatal mortality, causing almost 30 percent of neonatal deaths. Infant respiratory distress syndrome, in turn, is the leading cause of death in preterm infants, affecting about 1% of newborn infants. Birth defects cause about 21 percent of neonatal death.
Title: William Charles Williams
Passage: After employment as a gardener and labourer he joined the Royal Navy Boys Service in Portsmouth in 1895 and was promoted to Boy first class in 1896, Seaman in 1898 and Able Seaman in 1901. He was commended for his bravery when serving aboard "HMS "Terrible"" in the Naval Brigade off South Africa during the Second Boer War and in China during the Boxer Rising.
Title: Alfred Seaman
Passage: Alfred Seaman was born in Norfolk in 1844. He began his working life as a builder and took up photography as a hobby in the 1860s. He opened his first studio in Chesterfield Derbyshire in 1880 and subsequently ran studios in, Ilkeston, Alfreton, Matlock, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Hull and Brighton.
Title: Norfolk Rhapsodies
Passage: The Norfolk Rhapsodies are three orchestral rhapsodies by Ralph Vaughan Williams, drafted in 1905–06. They were based on folk songs Vaughan Williams had collected in the English county of Norfolk, in particular the fishing port of King's Lynn in January 1905. Only the first rhapsody survives in its entirety, having been revised by the composer in 1914. The second exists in fragmentary form, and has been completed by other hands. The third is lost.
Title: Alfred Le Roux
Passage: Alfred Le Roux (11 December 1815 - 1 June 1880) was a French poet, banker and politician. He was Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the government of Napoleon III in 1869.
Title: John Andrews (Medal of Honor)
Passage: John Andrews (born 1821) was a United States Navy Ordinary Seaman received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean Expedition.
Alfred Seaman Norfolk Rhapsodies