Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No. VWL385
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No.: VWL385
11 August 1958
Dona Nobis, record of performance by the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte directed by Earl F. Berg.
I dont know in which county Charlotte is – can you deduce? Pre Independence.1
It was lovely to see you – Bloody notices in the Sunday paper – how impertinent they all are2
Love
U
1. The VWs had been sent a recording of Dona Nobis Pacem (CW 1936/3) made in Charlotte, North Carolina, and MK had wanted to get hold of a copy for himself.
2. Notices of the “prom” performance of the Ninth Symphony on 5 August.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 159, f.236
