Going West
Hindeminth's musical output in America included Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Marie von Weber (1943) for orchestra, followed in 1946 by the choral When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd.
Balanchine
The Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine founded the New York City Ballet, which staged Igor Stravinsky's ballet scores Orpheus ( 1948) and Agon (1957).
An English Symphonist : Vaughan Williams
In wartime England, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Produced his serene Fifth Symphony ( 1943).
Then, in peacetime, still full of surprises in his old age, he composed the much bleaker Sixth Symphony (1947). Three more symphonies followed. In 1951 Vaughan Williams completed his masterpiece: the opera The Pilgrim's Progress, based on the story by the 16th-century writer John Bunyan