Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Cedric Thorpe Davie
Letter No. VWL1073
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Cedric Thorpe Davie
Letter No.: VWL1073
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Friday [9 October 1936]
Dear Cedric
At last I’ve had time to go through G.G.N.1 I like some of the music v. much – but I do not want to pronounce until I have heard you play it through. Meanwhile I am going to show it to Waddington.2 The Drama rather worries me – not enough substance?
Yrs
RVW
1. Thorpe Davie’s opera Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
2. Sydney P. Waddington, who taught harmony at the Royal College of Music.
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Shelfmark:MS37758//5/260
