Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Vally Lasker
Letter No. VWL862
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Vally Lasker
Letter No.: VWL862
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
July 31st. 30
Dear Vally
I don’t know whether this will catch you before you go off on your holiday. But do you want a holiday task? A pfte solo version of Job is wanted for rehearsing the dances – wd you feel inclined to undertake it? Something simple & practical – I know it can’t be all got in but something that will give the essentials. I can’t spare the full score – but I think it wd be all right to do it off the pfte duet copy.1
Yrs
R. Vaughan Williams
1. This was published in 1931. A few pages of a two-piano manuscript score survive in the British Library (Add. MS 50411) which may have been the copy from which Vally Lasker worked. Most of the letter is printed in R.V.W.: a biography, p.184.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/7, ff.25-27
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Citation:R.V.W.: a biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, p.184.