Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Iris Lemare
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Dear Iris
Thankyou very much for your letter - I don't agree with you about the lack of material (unless you insist on 1st performances - when it wd be impossible at any time or any where to make up a programme of 1st rate works) - I know you had some flops last year - but that is inevitable & ought not to be discouraging
How about
Rubbra str 4tet
Helen Hunter "
D. Gow Oboe 5tet
Ferguson 8tet
Murrill Prelude & Fugue Clar & pfte
Tovey Variations for str 4tet
Ina Boyle str 4tet
" " Motets for A capella
A wind 5tet by a college lad whose name has escaped me
Milford Suite for small orchestra
" Songs of escape (A capella)
Ken Andrews Viola sonata
Reizenstein Pfte suite
" Sonata for cello solo
Jacob 2d str 4tet, violin pieces oboe pieces
You might combine with these revivals of old music
Jenkins Fantasia for strings
Purcell " "
Palestrina " "
- As regards - “Riders” - It is most dear of you to suggest it - but I feel these concerts are for the young and unheard with an old Fogey occasionally as a make weight.
Yrs
RVW
Thankyou so much for percussing at Dorking
Names:
- Lemare, Iris Margaret Elsie, 1902-1997
- Rubbra, Edmund, 1901-1986
- Gow, Dorothy , 1893-1982
- Ferguson, Howard, 1908-1999
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594
- Jenkins, John, 1592-1678
- Tovey, Donald Francis, 1875-1940
- Boyle, Ina Selina, 1889-1967
- Jacob, Gordon, 1895-1984
- Reizenstein, Franz, 1911-1968
- Murrill, Herbert Henry John, 1909-1952
- Andrews, Herbert Kennedy, 1904-1965
- Glatz, Helen Sinclair (née Hunter), 1908-1996
- Milford, Robin, 1903-1959
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