| Content | Thank you for your greetings, she only got to reply today; Dr. Hipman, who knew BM from Paris, and the Legation Councillor Safranek, who is writing a biography of BM, and with whom they discussed memories of BM from his childhood and later years, and his work; perhaps Safranek will contact her too, she could certainly tell him something interesting; he was also at the rectory in Borová; BM is now having success all over the world, and he has written about "Merry Play on the Bridge", for which he was awarded in N.Y. State Prize [from The New York Music Critics' Circle for the best opera of 1951], is now in great demand, it will be performed in Finland; he is now setting Gogol's "The Marriage" for TV; he had success with a piece for two violins, also "Field Mass" was performed in English translation; BM and ChM are now in Europe since the end of May, BM came to the festival in Royaumont, where they performed his Symphony [which one?]; then they were in Cassis on the Riviera, then in Italy, he wants to go to Austria and back to France, where they will stay until the end of September; "we are aware of how close he is and cannot come to us"; Brother Francis is not well, he has changed a lot, he was treated in Pardubice and has been in the local hospital for a week, he is rapidly losing his eyesight; she herself has had the flu twice this winter and severe pneumonia, she will try to get to the sanatorium in Žamberk for next winter; regards. |