Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult
Letter No. VWL447
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult
Letter No.: VWL447
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
April 14 [1935]
dictated
Dear Adrian
On the whole I prefer ‘Job’.1 For one thing I want to make a few slight revisions in the Symph2 and would therefore like, if the occasion arises, to hear it again in England before we shove it off on the foreigners.
Also, I feel that Job is less like what they are accustomed to, which I feel is what we ought to give them – but do as you like really. These considerations are not important.
I am not quite happy about the rest of your programme – but daresay that is inevitable.
Could you not do Bax 3rd Symphony instead of Tintagel – and the P.F. Ballet3 or Egdon Heath or Hammersmith instead of the Fugal Overture – which is not one of my favourite works.4
Yrs
RVW
1. Catalogue of Works, 1930/5.
2. Symphony (No. 4) in F Minor (Catalogue of Works 1934/13).
3. The Perfect Fool.
4. Boult was performing a concert of British music at Salzburg. For Boult’s reply see VWL704.
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Musical Works:Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. JobVaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Symphonies, no. 4, F minorVaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Symphonies, no. 3 (Pastoral symphony)Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor, 1883-1953. TintagelBax, Arnold Edward Trevor, 1883-1953. Symphonies, no. 3Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934. HammersmithHolst, Gustav, 1874-1934. The Perfect FoolHolst, Gustav, 1874-1934. Egdon HeathHolst, Gustav, 1874-1934. Fugal concerto
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Date year taken from receipt stamp. In the hand of AVW, signed by VW.
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Shelfmark:File 910, VW composer
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Citation:Moore, Music and Friends, pp.117-118