The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)

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The Wasps is a suite for orchestra composed by the prominent British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It originally premiered as incidental music for a production of Aristophanes' The Wasps at Cambridge University. The overture continues to be a popular concert piece today.

The suite is in five parts:

  1. Overture
  2. Entr'acte
  3. March past of the kitchen utensils
  4. Entr'acte
  5. Ballet and final tableau
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