Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ursula Wood
Letter No. VWL1958
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ursula Wood
Letter No.: VWL1958
[September 1944]
My Dear
I’m much worried about the Peasants – I do not feel that your intimate & beautiful & introspective art is the right medium for the rough & tumble of a big crowd opera. Because that is what opera (at all events this opera) has got to be – great crowd movements & choral scenes not clashes of psychology.
– & have you or I got the technique to do that unaided by the experienced opera hack? I should hate for you to waste all your beauty of thought & expression on something which is not your “cup of tea” at all.
Anyway it will be years before I shall be in a state of mind to start even thinking about it.
Love
RVW
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Dated on the assumption that following VW’s dismissal of the idea of a film on the Peasants Revolt (see VWL1928) UW suggested they collaborate on an opera.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/2/1/1, f. 35
