 These annual Christmas concerts continue to this day.A year after his death, in August 1958, Vaughan Williams was succeeded as president by Sir Arthur Bliss, CH, KCVO, KT, Master of the Queen's Music.Sir Arthur died on 27 March 1975 and was replaced in July 1975 by distinguished choral musician and current president Sir David Willcocks CBE MC, then famous for his work as the director of music at King's College, Cambridge, who had recently been appointed director of the Royal College of Music.