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TRER/7/59
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Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 25 Mar [1929] (Creation)
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39 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh. - Originally enclosing the last of Tovey's notes. The orchestra has 'now covered the whole ground'; the orchestration is much better than Tovey expected and will not drown the singers when they know their parts. Has got rid of 'the only really incapable one', the second Minos, and can 'get 6 substitutes by putting my head out of the window & whistling'.
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Unsigned: unfinished? Sketch which appears to relate to the production of "The Bride of Dionysus" follows the text. Pencil annotations doubtful between 1929 and 1931 as the date, but Tovey's reactions to the orchestration as performed suggests the first performance of the work.