Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Phyllis Tate
Letter No. VWL4310
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Phyllis Tate
Letter No.: VWL4310
The White Gates,
Dorking
30th March, 1949.
Dear Phyllis
Thank you so much for sending me the Nocturne. As I told you before it is at present a little beyond my nearly octogenarian ears, but perhaps a study of the score will reveal things to me which at first hearing I did not understand.
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams
(R. Vaughan Williams).
Miss Phyllis Tate
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Phyllis Tate’s Nocturne (1945) is written for four voices (soprano, tenor, baritone, bass) with a string quartet, double bass, bass clarinet, and celesta. It was performed at the Royal Society of British Artists Galleries by the London Contemporary Music Centre on 5 April 1949, and again on 7 July at the Cheltenham Annual Festival of British Contemporary Music. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 2017/04
