Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No. VWL2668
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No.: VWL2668
The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.
11th March, 1953.
Dear Frank,1
When you always treat me so generously and courteously I hate making a complaint, but I found when I went to a rehearsal of my “Sinfonia”2 with the B.B.C. Orchestra yesterday that the O.U.P. had provided a set of parts which had not the latest corrections and checkings, and we had to spend a good deal of time getting these right.
I hope the parts sent to America and the Continent have got these latest corrections in. They were made, if I remember right, before the London performance.3
Yours sincerely,
RVW
P.S. I want the wind machine to remain anyway
Thursday
1. Music Editor in succession to Norman Peterkin (1947); Head of Music from 1954 until his retirement in 1975.
2. Sinfonia Antartica (Catalogue of Works 1952/2).
3. Frank was able to re-assure VW about the parts. See VWL2671.
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Typewritten, signed, with postscript in the hand of VW.
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Shelfmark:File 2008F