Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edmund and Antoinette Rubbra
Letter No. VWL3357
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edmund and Antoinette Rubbra
Letter No.: VWL3357
From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.
July 22nd 1956.
Dear Edmund, and Antoinette,
Thank you so much for your letter, and you know how I value your appreciation.We were desolated not to be there.1 I hear that John2 was well enough to be able to conduct at the last concert. I listened in to the broadcast of your symphony3 – a fine performance of a fine work.
Love to you both from both of us,
Yrs RVW
1. A performance of VW’s Eighth Symphony.
2. John Barbirolli.
3. The broadcast of the performance of Rubbra’s Sixth Symphony, performed at Cheltenham Festival on 17 July, conducted by Barbirolli.
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Typewritten, signed.
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Shelfmark:MS. Rubbra 2, f. 160