THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Eversleigh Court,
105/109,Cromwell Road,
South Kensington.

[5th April 1935]

Dear Gerald

I apologize heartily for last night. We all seemed to lose our heads at the same moment – usually when the conductor loses his head the choir pulls him through & vice versa – but in this case we all flopped simultaneously. I am glad you heard the rehearsal so that you will know it was not for want of trying.¹
Yrs

RVW

1. VW had conducted the annual concert of the Kensington Musical Competition Festival, held in Kensington Town Hall on Thursday 4^th April. The Kensington News reported: ‘As an illustration of the great pains that Dr. Williams takes he made the choral societies repeat a first faulty rendering of “Nightingales” by Gerald Finzi.