Item 41 - Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan

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University of Edinburgh headed notepaper. - Thanks Trevelyan. There is no hurry, and he does not want Miss Weisse to be pressed at all now he knows 'there's nothing queer in the wind': was just worried as 'things had been so queer last year, but it all seems perfectly safe & reasonable' and he would prefer nothing more to be said to Miss Weisse.

The concerts are going well: the [Reid] Orchestra is improving, and the Kirkhope Choir performed what he thinks are 'the four most difficult & original' and beautiful English madrigals [by Thomas Weelkes] excellently at yesterday's concert [on 2 February]. The public received them politely, but they reacted very enthusiastically to the Brahms alto Rhapsodie, which was performed by Miss [Helen] Anderton, Miss Fillunger's pupil, whom Trevelyan might remember.

The suggested date in the pencil annotation does not fit with the date of the concert described: http://www.reidconcerts.music.ed.ac.uk/group/reid-orchestra