Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult
Letter No. VWL3954
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult
Letter No.: VWL3954
The White Gates,
Dorking
Oct 18 [1944]
Dear Adrian
F minor Symph. Carelessness, sir, pure carelessness (as Dr Johnson wd have said). Though I defy even the BBC orchestra (at that pace) to make any distinction between (fig 6) and and (fig 10)
Yrs
RVW
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Symphony no.4 in F minor was first performed in April 1935, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Boult. This letter was later dated by Boult as ‘Autumn 1944’; he did conduct the symphony again on 14 February 1945 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in Bedford.
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