Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No. VWL1075
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No.: VWL1075
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[3 August 1933]
Dearest Harriet
One more word
If you find that Scherchen has an incomplete or inadequate orchestra you will refuse to play the concerto won’t you1
Yrs
RVW
1. Hermann Scherchen, German conductor and pioneer of new music. At this time he was giving up his post as Generalmusikdirektor at Königsberg and moving to Switzerland where he was director of Zürich Radio Orchestra. He was planning a performance of VW’s Piano Concerto with Harriet Cohen at Strasburg later in the month. See VWL1067.
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Date from postmark (3 Aug 33).
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1642, ff. 43-44
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Citation:Cobbe 235