THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)

Letter No. VWL3457

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)

Letter No.: VWL3457


From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.

[29th December 1956]

Dear Alan

Your letter of Dec 28/ACF:996. I think American is not so bad as American-Irish on the whole.1
Yrs

RVW


1. Written in response to a letter of Alan Frank’s dated 28th December. Frank had reported that Hunter College in New York were to perform Riders to the Sea and that they had enquired whether the singers should sing with an Irish accent.