Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan
Letter No. VWL563
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan
Letter No.: VWL563
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[May 1935]
Dear Bessy
It was wonderful of you to write – & I value your opinion very much (not only when favourable!)
I quite got to like it myself in the end. The first rehearsal was unimaginable chaos. But the orchestra & Adrian worked like Trojans for 4 rehearsals – & things gradually cleared themselves – chiefly owing to Adrian’s real insight.1
I am so glad to think that you are well enough to go home tomorrow & hope you are really better – what a trying time you must have had.
Yrs
RVW
1. The Fourth Symphony, Catalogue of Works 1934/13. Adrian Boult had conducted the performance.
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Date according to a note on the original – but more probably April 1935 – the Fourth Symphony was given on 10 April.
For Trevelyan’s letter see MS Mus. 1714/1/9, ff.138-139. -
Shelfmark:RCT 16.180(i)
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/9, ff.140-141
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Citation:Cobbe 260
