THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Oct 8 [1946]

Dear Gerald

I entirely disagree about Boult’s B.P.¹ I thought it noble and moving & tears were (literally) in my eyes at the end. Such a relief after a terribly jaunty performance under M.S.² which I heard the other day. Even then it came out top.
Yrs
RVW

1.  i.e. Blest Pair of Sirens by Parry. The performance was broadcast on 29 September – the first day of the Third Programme – when Blest Pair of Sirens concluded the main evening concert, conducted by Boult. Serenade to Music preceded it, and there was a first performance of Britten’s Festival Overture and Bliss’s Music for Strings.
2.  i.e. Malcolm Sargent.