Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arthur Boosey
Letter No. VWL4978
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arthur Boosey
Letter No.: VWL4978
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
July 3rd. [1938]
Dear Mr. Boosey
This is to introduce to you Mr. William Cole – a composer of talent and a first rate organist.
He has written a partsong for men’s voices which we wish to do at our Leith Hill Festival next April if Mr. Cole can find a publisher. I should be very glad if you would give his work your sympathetic consideration.
The Leith Hill Festival would require from 80 to 100 copies of the music – The choirs start rehearsing in September.
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
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In the hand of AVW, signed by VW.
A letter dated July 4th 1938, from Cole to Boosey on the subject of his partsong The Wakening, is attached to this recommendation. The glee had won the 1938 prize awarded by the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1813/2/1/212/6
