| Content | Bohuslav Martinů has just sent a letter to the Embassy in Washington to ask the Ministry for the JULIETTE material. He wrote that he was doing so on the recommendation of Karel Šebánek and that any fees for the material would be negotiated with the KS. He does not know if he should also write to any ministry. He will at least write to the director of the National Theatre, Ladislav Bohac, if he is still there. KS is supposed to look after the whole thing. Similarly, he would like to have other works with him, for example, PLAYS ABOUT MARY, which will certainly not be performed at home and could be commissioned in America, for example, next season at Tanglewood. He anticipates that with the change of his passport there will be problems with publishing and staging his works at home. He doesn't want to get the CS into trouble. KS is to make whatever arrangements he can with Boosey & Hawkes to ensure that his stuff is protected "in case of any misunderstanding between the nations". As for the other things, they will wait until the situation is clarified. BM can't continue to work with [Orbis] when there is no profit in it, only promises. He expected that the situation would change and that Orbis would release the money, but it has been dragging on for over two years, BM has no hope, only that he would become a member of "another copyright company". Instead of living off his compositions, he has to teach. He asks KS for photographs of the Legend of St. Dorothy - at his own expense - and also of the Nativity. According to the catalogue, he doesn't know if it is a score or a piano excerpt. BM regrets that they cannot continue to work together. BM thinks the scores that KS has published are excellent. But everything drags on too much, BM has new things in the meantime and "the old ones are losing time and opportunity". B&H say they are not getting anything from Prague, KS has to finally arrange it with them. BM wonders if KS could arrange to send the OSA money to the siblings in Polička, since "C." is no longer there. [Antonín Čejka]. It would be about 25 thousand. The new translation of Juliette will be ready soon. She thinks her assignment will go easily, but until she has the material in hand, she can't do anything. BM is now staying in New York, will send KS a package. |