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In the second part of the concert, the audience will have an opportunity to hear the spectacular Antarctic Symphony of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). In 1948, Vaughan Williams was invited to compose the soundtrack for a film about the famous British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who tragically died with his companions on the way back from his second expedition to Antarctica, just 20 km from the nearest food depot. The composer was so deeply moved by the story that he wrote most of the soundtrack before seeing the film script. Eventually, Vaughan Williams realised that this could be the foundation for a new symphony, and over the next few years he completed his seventh symphony, which he named the Antarctic Symphony.