THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Leith Hill Place
Nr. Dorking

[April? 1926]

Dear Atkins
I don’t think there w^d be any necessity for me to rehearse the Wasps at Worcester – the Symphony is a different thing – but as you say this is […]: I suppose it is the Symph takes 35 mins & therefore ought to have 70 to rehearse – The Wasps takes 7 & therefore ought to have 15. – say 90 minutes altogether – is that poss? Be assured that if I can do it in less I will.¹
I will send you the names of the movements when I get back to London. I cannot remember them this minute.²
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

1. VW was to conduct his Pastoral Symphony at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester in September 1926; the Wasps overture was also to be performed. See also VWL4174.
2. See VWL4173.