Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the editor of the Sunday Referee newspaper
Letter No. VWL5259
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the editor of the Sunday Referee newspaper
Letter No.: VWL5259
The White Gates,
Westcott-Road,
Dorking.
[2 Oct 1934]
“THE RUNNING SET”
My attention has been called to a paragraph in your issue of Sept. 30, in which your musical critic accuses me of introducing into my “Running Set” a tune with an offensive and disgusting title.
I have no knowledge of a tune with this name.
The “well-known air” which I introduced into the “Running Set” was “The Cock o’ the North”, a tune which I hoped would be recognised even by critics.
R Vaughan Williams
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Published in the Sunday Referee, 3 October 1934. Newspaper cutting at the British Library with date stamp 3 Oct 1934, presumably the date of its publication.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/11/2/1
