Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood at the BBC
Letter No. VWL1861
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood at the BBC
Letter No.: VWL1861
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Jan 21 [1944]
Dear Wood
I think that you definitely turned down my Concerto for oboe and strings as being unsuitable for the Albert Hall. With this I entirely agree and hope to be able to offer you something else when the time comes.
I only write now because someone else has been making enquiries about it and I did not want even to appear to be playing you false.1
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. In VWL1859 VW had written to Wood offering him the oboe concerto (Catalogue of Works 1944/1) with the rider: ‘but I think that you consider most oboe concerti do not do in the Albert Hall’.
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Shelfmark:File 910, VW composer
