THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Thursday [May 25 1948]

Belov Boo
Thank you so much for returning Musical Times – I thought it good enough to cut out & keep tho’ R said he didn’t want it.
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R viewed Job¹ from the tier above the boxes – good for sound & he even heard the oboe w^h is a major difficulty with him. It wasn’t a Rolls R² evening – he went by 4.18 took Fanny³ to M.M.⁴ & he caught the 9.18 train home – Programmes 6^d every seat filled even to the slips. Meanwhile I listened in to Otello with the score and the evening went quickly – I couldn’t face the end w^h R said I oughtn’t to have missed.
Today Betty M^cConchy (Lefanu) is coming with her new Symph⁵ – so R will have an exacting after[noon] but he is very fond of her so she is welcome.
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1. Job had its first revival in May 1948 at the Royal Opera House.
2. i.e. ‘Rolls Royce’ or a grand scale
3. Frances Farrer
4. Mainly Musicians, a club to which VW belonged.
5. Probably her Symphony no. 2, later withdrawn.