THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert John Sumsion

Letter No. VWL2715

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert John Sumsion

Letter No.: VWL2715


September 9th 1953

Dear Dr Sumsion

I want to express my great gratitude first to you as prime mover and secondly to all those soloists, chorus and orchestra who combined to give an inspired performance off1 my ‘Dona’.2
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams


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2. This was an afternoon performance on 8 September. VW conducted, but Sumsion did much of the preparation.