THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

17th June, 1948.

Dear Frank,

I was given a record of my Oboe Concerto as played by Mr. Miller in America.  I was polite about it but personally I thought it made a horrible noise rather like cats on the roof; but anyway I do not like records, so I am not a fair judge.¹
Perhaps I ought to have told you about this, but as Decca are taking it over I thought they would have told you.
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press,
38 Soho Square,
London, W.1.

1.  The first recording of the Oboe Concerto, Catalogue of Works 1944/1, was made by Keynote in America with Mitchell Miller as the soloist.