| Content | Bohuslav Martinů finally received a package from Karel Šebánek. For the future, he asks him not to send anything with insurance over $100, because then he has to go to customs and the whole shipment will be delayed. Thanks for the SPALK. He doesn't know what he is going to do with it since he doesn't have the sheet music. He would need a lot more operas, especially PLAYS ABOUT MARY. He has had no replies from the [National] Theatre. The Metropolitan Opera is interested. BM would need at least a piano lift, as he has to make a translation by March, when the programme is made. KS is to call the National Theatre. BM has already lost a lot of time and opportunities. GREATER ON THE BRIDGE was a huge success, it was awarded best opera of the season, now there is demand for other BM operas. JULIETTE is accepted for 1953. BM would badly need to send home money [from OSA]. He wants to go under ASCAP soon and then it might not happen. KS is to write that they urgently need it, they are ill at home. If BM doesn't get a better contract from Boosey & Hawkes, he will choose another publisher. So KS is to wait and see what happens. Juliette is probably going to work with G. Schirmer, Inc. anyway. BM agrees to microfilm [Games of Mary], if KS needs more money to publish, he will send a new voucher. Mainly needs a copy as soon as possible. Would like to have an English dictionary already. He will be in Europe probably in May, would like to meet KS. |