THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

August 10 [1936]

Dear Mr. Foster Clark

I listened to the broadcast of ‘Job’¹ on Friday with great pleasure.  It came through very well and had evidently been carefully rehearsed and was played and conducted very sympathetically.
If I might venture on one or two suggestions I think some of the tempi were slightly too slow, namely, the opening, Satans Dance and the Pavane.  Also the commas should not be made into pauses – they are meant to be the merest breath mark and as you of course know all pauses sound exaggerated over the wireless – but these are only tiny blemishes in an otherwise fine performance.
Yrs sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1.  Catalogue of Works 1930/5. Job was broadcast on the BBC on Friday 7 August 1936, in a performance by the BBC Midland Orchestra, conducted by Hubert Foster Clark.