Pièce 180 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan

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Cote

TRER/16/180

Titre

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • [May 1935] (Production)

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Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1 item

Zone du contexte

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Portée et contenu

The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Good of Bessy to write; values her opinion 'very much (not only when favourable!'. Got to like [his 4th Symphony] himself by the end; the 'first rehearsal was unimaginable chaos' but the orchestra and Adrian [read more

Zone des sources complémentaires

Existence and location of copies

British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/9, ff.140-141

Publication note

Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL563: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl563

Zone des notes

Note

Pencil annotation dating the letter '1935'; the editors of the 'Letters of Vaughan Williams' project suggest that April is more likely, since the 4th Symphony was performed on 10 April, but Bessie did not go into a nursing home for an eye operation until May.

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