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Letter No. VWL3773
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Mr Stich[?]
Letter No.: VWL3773
The White Gates
Dorking
Sept 21 [1930s?]
Dear Mr Stich[?]1
Thankyou very much for your interesting letter. I have only seldom heard my Mass sung as part of the service. I do wish I could have heard it at Frankfurt – I wonder how the boys struck you – I have heard boys choirs in Italy & Belgium & they have much to[o] much “chest” voice for our English taste.
But they think our “head” voice “effeminate”!
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. Correspondent unidentified
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Apparently unrecorded performance of the Mass in Frankfurt – identify to date.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/31, ff. 21, 22
