THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Eversleigh Court
105/109, Cromwell Road,
South Kensington

Nov 14 [1934]

Dear Mr Buesst

Concert Dec 28¹
Programme

I propose the following²
1. Overture    Grace Williams
8 minutes
2. 5 Mystical Songs   R Vaughan Williams³
(20 minutes)
3. Concertino     R. O. Morris⁴
15 minutes
4. 2 pieces (a) Pipe Tune (b) May in the Greenwood
` Milford
5 minutes

Total     8
20
15
5
48 minutes

Yrs sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1. On this concert which VW had proposed to the BBC see Jennifer Doctor, ‘Working for her own salvation’ in Lewis Foreman (ed.), Vaughan Williams in Perspective (Albion Music, 1998), pp. 194-5. The final programme, conducted by VW, included Elizabeth Maconchy’s Comedy Overture, Grace Williams’s Two psalms for soprano and chamber orchestra, R.O. Morris’s Concertino, Robin Milford’s Two pieces for orchestra (Prelude on St Columba and May in the Greenwood) and VW’s Five Mystical Songs.
2. See VWL1337 for further correspondence with the BBC on this concert.
3. Catalogue of Works 1911/2.
4. Concertino da camera.