Performance review

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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL3290	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Tattersall	Dear Norman, Your invitation sounds delightful, but I fear we can make no engagements so far ahead - so may we please leave it at that....	19580604
VWL4489	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Nancy Evans	Dearest Nancy You looked lovely and you sounded lovely last night.¹ It seemed to me that you and Vera² rose to a high...	19580306
VWL4286	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Dennis Arundell	Dear Arundell, I want to tell you how much Ursula and I admired your production of Joan at Cambridge.¹ The dramatic effect of the...	19570303
VWL3399	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy	Dear Michael, Thank you so much for your fine notice of the concert.¹ I am still worrying a little about the last movement I...	19560513
VWL3311	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Bardgett	Dear Bardgett, I want to repeat what I said to you last Sunday, and what I have also written to the choir: that their performance surpassed...	19560325
VWL4485	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Nancy Evans	Dearest Nancy I am so sorry that Frank Howes was so silly about the 'Water Mill'. I have written to the Times about it, but I do not know if...	19550529
VWL4486	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Editor of The Times	Sir, In your issue of May 27 your Critic¹ complains that Miss Nancy Evans sang my song "The Water Mill" "too slowly". I owe it to...	19550528
VWL2813	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy	My dear Michael and Eslyn, I read your splendid notice in the Daily Telegraph. You are right certainly in saying that the singers feel the...	19540404
VWL2797	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Cedric Thorpe Davie	Dear Cedric, That recording of Tudor Portraits is horrible: that screeching woman outrageous, and the tempi, most of them, wrong. I knew...	19540302
VWL2950	Foreword from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Society for the Promotion of New Music	Foreword¹ by DR. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, O.M. How are we to find the diamond hidden in the dunghill? Only by...	195403--

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