Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Diana Awdry
Letter No. VWL959
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Diana Awdry
Letter No.: VWL959
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[27 July 1936]
Dear Diana
I think your festival would like Judith1 – it’s not as hard as the Brahms Requiem – or as “The Explorers”2. Will you let me know as we have to tell Novellos how many copies we want- 350 will cost £45 & 500 £55.
If you take it how many copies would you want? Roughly 45 minutes – but you might make some cuts.
We are doing Carmen for our Div II – wd your Div II like that.
Are you going to be at Hereford on August 27?
Love from
Uncle Ralph
1. Judith composed by Parry. Diana Awdry had established a music festival at Stinchcombe.
2. The fourth movement of A Sea Symphony.
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Date from postmark, slightly obscure. This letter appears to be a follow up to VWL955.
A concert version of Carmen was given on 7 April 1937, and Judith on 9 April, at the Leith Hill Musical Festival. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1752/2/1/2, ff. 55-57
