THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

18th March, 1953.

Thank you so much for your letter.  It was a great pleasure to have you and your Wife with us the other day, and your assistance at rehearsal was splendid.¹

The answer to your rhetorical question is, “I don’t know”, because I know nothing about the technique of singing myself.

I don’t know whether you saw the “Times”.  It was filled with unwilling admiration.

Yours sincerely,
R. Vaughan Williams
(R. Vaughan Williams).

I do hope your “John”² went well

H. Byard, Esq.,
4, Randall Road,
Clifton, Bristol.

1. Byard had apparently attended the annual performance of Bach’s Passion music by the Dorking Bach Choir, to which VW had invited him. See VWL2653.
2. A reference to Byard’s performance of Bach’s St John Passion.