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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Martinů, Bohuslav
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Sender‘s location	Rome
Send date	23.03.1957
Recipient	Ježková, Frances
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Recipient‘s location	New York, NY
Language	Czech
Acquired	Czech Museum of Music, 2007
Owner of the source	České muzeum hudby
Owner‘s call number	G 11 735
Former call number at IBM	80/28
Call number at IBM	Jež 1957-03-23

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Content	After the success of Studanek, he has been inundated with requests to set various verses to music; he is working on a piece for Cleveland; FJ has not yet received a package with Studanek; the Prague Teachers are preparing to perform Zbojnicki Songs in April; the Moravian Teachers will perform Zboj. Songs not until autumn; America is apparently interested in Zboj. songs; Olga has not yet appeared; she has news from home- her illness is good, she probably won't go there; she mentions Dulles and Frank; Šafránek is already in Prague; problems with the contract with Universalka ohl. Opera [actually it is about the Greek Passion]; Kubelík is interested in the Greek Passion, who could perform it in London; BM no longer goes to the cinema or concerts; asks FJ to get him a book from Chaucer by Eric Fromm; biography (on BM) to keep with him for the time being; sends a contribution for various expenses; about a composition for Cleveland; interested in American history.
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Note	the envelope attached
Fixation	typewriting, handwritten signature

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Quality of digitisation	Professional
Digitized at	ČMH
Date of digitisation	2022

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Plymouth

Prague

USA

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Kubelík, Rafael

Rybka, Frank

Šafránek, Miloš

Schneeberger, Olga

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Cleveland Orchestra

Pěvecké sdružení moravských učitelů

Pěvecké sdružení pražských učitelů

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The Opening of the Springs / The Opening of the Wells, H 354

The Rock [auth.], H 363

Brigand Songs, H 361

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