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- 23 June 1943 (Creation)
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The White Gates, Dorking. - '[V]ery dear' of Bessy to write; wishes she could hear [his new 5th Symphony, to be performed that evening at the Albert Hall]; it is 'very quiet & not at all like the one before'. Thinks [Hubert] Foss did 'an almost impossible job very well'. They have had 'happy letters' from the Löwenbachs, who are in New York; [Jan] is 'quite well again', and writing for a Czech newspaper published there.
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British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/15, ff.3-4
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Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL1789: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl1789
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Pencil annotation dating the letter '1943' and notes this is 'Date of first performance of his new D maj[or] Symphony in London'; this is probably in Elizabeth Trevelyan's hand.
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- Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958), composer and folk song collector (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Foss, Hubert James (1899-1953) pianist, composer, and editor (Subject)
- Löwenbach, Jan (1880-1972) music critic, writer and lawyer (Subject)
- Löwenbach, Vilma Zucker (1891-1975) wife of Jan Löwenbach (Subject)