Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)
Letter No. VWL1432
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)
Letter No.: VWL1432
The White Gates
Dorking
[26 August 1940]
Dear Adrian
Thank you for a lovely performance of 5 T.P.’s yesterday.
I find I owe you an apology – Bessy Trevelyan tells me that you did do Toveys prologue & that it never got on the programme – I wish I had known.2 Why was I not told?
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams
1. Five Tudor Portraits (Catalogue of Works 1935/5).
2. VW had complained that no musical notice had been taken of the death of Donald Francis Tovey in BBC music programming – see VWL1429.
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Shelfmark:Music General Files, R27/509, RVW 1940-1949 file 1