General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderŠafránek, Miloš
Sender (corporation)Československá informační služba
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date07.09.1943
RecipientKusevickij, Olga
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationTanglewood, Massachusetts
LanguageEnglish
Acquiredfrom Library of Congress, 02/1998
Owner of the sourceLibrary of Congress
Former call number at IBM50/59
Call number at IBMBSO 1943-09-07
Content and physical description
ContentThe MC sends a copy of his article on BM from the July issue of Musical Quarterly. He has signed a contract with Knopf for a book on BM. He intends to mention Koussevitzky's support of BM in it, and is now seeking information for this. He asks Olga to write to the Boston Symphony librarian to borrow the score of La Bagarre and the Symphony - the one Kusevicky played in Boston in 1928. He would also like to get the Boston Symphony concert programs for November 18 and 19, 1927 and December 14, 1928.

MS is sending a reprint of his article on BM from Musical Quarterly, July 1943. He has signed a contract with the publisher Knopf for a book on BM. In this book, he will discuss Koussevitzky's support of BM. He is now gathering information for the book. He requests that Olga write to the librarian of the Boston Symphony for the score to La Bagarre and Symphonie, which was performed in 1928 by Koussevitzky in Boston. He also would like programs of the Boston Symphony's concerts of November 18 and 19, 1927 and December 14, 1928.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypewriting, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white

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Location as subject
Boston, Massachusetts
Person as subject
Knopf, Alfred
Kusevickij, Sergej Aleksandrovič
Leroux, Germaine
Martinů, Bohuslav
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Transcript
Musical Quarterly
Composition as subject
Concerto Grosso, H 263
La Bagarre (The Tumult), H 155
Symphony No. 1 [auth.], H 289
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