Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Miss E. Price
Letter No. VWL1518
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Miss E. Price
Letter No.: VWL1518
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Feb 27 [1939]
Dear Madam
The tempo of “Here on my throne” should be about [crotchet] = 72 or a little slower.
Please do not use this opinion as an authority if the judge disagrees with your rendering – These things are a matter of opinion.1
Yours sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Miss Price had written to VW to ask about the correct tempo of this excerpt from Hugh the Drover, which she was to sing as a competition piece in the 1939 Cheltenham Festival. She won the competition.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/12, f. 106
