THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)

Letter No. VWL1432

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)

Letter No.: VWL1432


The White Gates
Dorking

[26 August 1940]

Dear Adrian

Thank you for a lovely performance of 5 T.P.’s  yesterday.
I find I owe you an apology – Bessy Trevelyan tells me that you did do Toveys prologue & that it never got on the programme – I wish I had known.2  Why was I not told?
Yrs

R Vaughan Williams


1.  Five Tudor Portraits (Catalogue of Works 1935/5).
2.  VW had complained that no musical notice had been taken of the death of Donald Francis Tovey in BBC music programming – see VWL1429.