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ReferenceBBA/WILSON_D

Title

Correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Duncan and Betty Wilson

Date1968-1976

DescriptionFile 1; Letters from Duncan Wilson, British Embassy in Moscow. Includes letters regarding Slava [Mstislav] Rostropovich and typescript copy of Poems used in Symphony No. 14 Op. 135 by Shostakovich. Also includes typescript copy of King Arthur by Henry Purcell for the Inter-Embassy Choir and typescript copy of Envoy Absolutely Extraordinary, a Shakespearean Fragment.
Britten's replies are photocopies only.

File 2; regarding The Times Letter. Includes draft of letter from Britten and Wilson to the Times and Jewish Chronicle. Also includes press cuttings of newspaper article from The Times; 'The sounds of silence in Czechoslovakia' dated 3 Nov 1972, and 'Fesival of Soviet Music'. Letters reviewing or commenting on their article are also in the file. See also: Hochhauser; Victor and Lilian.

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