Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy

Letter No.: 
VWL3273
[24 July 1958]

MRS. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, 10 HANOVER TERRACE, LONDON, N.W.1.

Rehearsals1 going splendidly.  We enjoyed the Menotti2 & hated the Soldiers tale,3 (brilliantly produced though it was) Cheap, sentimental claptrap, then, old fashioned & tedious, with nasty music!
Gil will be here on Friday, I think – & no dinner jackets needed for Saturday.4  We loved seeing you so much.
All love from both.
U.

1.  For Sir John in Love (Catalogue of Works 1928/3)
2.  MK thinks this was a double bill of Menotti’s The Medium and Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale ; not yet identified.
3.  Stage work by Stravinsky (1918).
4.  First performance of the new production of Sir John in Love.

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MS Mus. 159, f.234
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Postcard
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580724