THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood at the BBC

Letter No. VWL1861

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood at the BBC

Letter No.: VWL1861


From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Jan 21 [1944]

Dear Wood

I think that you definitely turned down my Concerto for oboe and strings as being unsuitable for the Albert Hall.  With this I entirely agree and hope to be able to offer you something else when the time comes.
I only write now because someone else has been making enquiries about it and I did not want even to appear to be playing you false.1
Yrs sincerely

R Vaughan Williams


1. In VWL1859 VW had written to Wood offering him the oboe concerto (Catalogue of Works 1944/1) with the rider: ‘but I think that you consider most oboe concerti do not do in the Albert Hall’.