| Content | - the writer attempts to give the addressee some information about the Concert ;
- the writer, himself a violinist, has always been interested in various combinations with this instrument - he has written many duos for violin and cello, violin and viola, as well as sonatas with piano for two solo violins, a violin concerto with orchestra for Misha Elman, a concertante suite for S. Dushkin, Concerto da camera, Sonatina for two violins and piano ;
- Once upon a time, when he was staying in Paris, he received a letter from the London Sonata Players asking him to write a sonata for two violins and piano - he first heard it performed fifteen years later in New York, at the Mannes School ;
- Concerto for Gerald and Wilfred - same case, except that he did not have to wait fifteen years for a performance ; (??)
- was at first much impressed by Mr. Beale senior's interest and endurance - during two years he always found occasion to remind the writer that he should write a concerto for the boys ... etc.
- He was good to work with, because he was trusted - the writer was delighted to compose the concerto ;
- a mutual fulfilment - and that it was in difficult times makes it all the more valuable ;
- he wrote the concerto in part while teaching at Princeton University;
- he adds the second movement (transcriber's note: apparently the second movement of the Sonata) - it is not an Andante - rather a kind of Pastorale, and the Finale is a sharp Allegro ; the Cadenza is part of it ;
- perhaps the addressee will use some of it... |