THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[?late 1929]

Dear Foss

I return the German ‘Benedicite’ – all v. good except 3 places where he has been too conscientious in keeping my slurs & substituted “Loben Gott’ for “Loben dem Herrn’ – this seems a pity, so I have put it back.¹
The places are
p.2.  score 2. sop solo
p.32.  score 2. b.1 sop solo
       ”            ”  b.2 chorus (this involves [cr qu qu] for [cr cr])
p.47.  score 2  sop. solo
Also
pp 33 & 47 should it not be ‘en’ – not ‘et’

I’ve just had W.G.W. Psalm – will write soon²
P.S. also with regard to Greaves’ letter re Concerto Accademico – I keep no record [of] these things – I think it is a G. Cooper concert – cannot remember who conducted.³

So sorry I’ve only just discovered that this was never posted!

1.  Benedicite. For Soprano Solo, Chorus and Orchestra,  a setting of words from “The Song of the three Holy Children” and a poem by J. Austin, etc.  The vocal score was published by Oxford University Press in 1929.
2.  William Gillies Whittaker,  Psalm cxxxix. Version by R. Bridges  … For unaccompanied mixed Choir and Semi-chorus. London: Oxford University Press, 1925.  A German version was published in 1927.
3.  The Concerto Accademico, later renamed Violin Concerto in D minor, Catalogue of Works 1925/7, was first performed at the Aeolian Hall in a Gerald Cooper concert on 6 November 1925 by Jelly d’Aranyi.