Performance review

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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL3849	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Grace Williams	Dear Grace, I listened in last night.¹ The reception was not very good and so I cannot say very much about it, except that the...	19510926
VWL2387	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	PERSONAL. Dear Adrian No, my complaints had nothing to do with you, unless it was your place to warn the speaker that he must space...	19520403
VWL2612	Letter from Michael Kennedy to Ralph Vaughan Williams	Dear Uncle Ralph, Eslyn and I were both thrilled by “Antartica” and by the warm reception it has been accorded, and we were more than...	19530118
VWL2618	Letter from Ernest Irving to Ralph Vaughan Williams	My Dear Ralph V.W. What a grand night, and a triumph for you. The long sustained and thoroughly sincere applause must have warmed the...	19530122
VWL2619	Letter from Gerald Finzi to Ralph Vaughan Williams	Dear Uncle Ralph The Oxford performance¹ was good, but having heard the Manchester broadcast, & again, last night, the Phil...	19530122
VWL2628	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Hamber	Dear Mr. Hamber, Thank you very much for your kind and appreciative letter. The orchestra certainly played magnificently and gave me a...	19530128
VWL2670	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian It was wonderful of you to come the other night, and your praise has been a great stimulus.¹ As regards...	19530318
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--
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
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

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