General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[?]
Send date09.02.1959
RecipientBureš, Miloslav
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[Czechoslovakia]
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from Bohuslav Martinů´s Centre in Polička, 2015
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Owner‘s call numberPBM Kb 659
Call number at IBMBurM 1959-02-09
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů is working on "Mikes" [MIKEŠ Z HOR], it's beautiful poetry. Miloslav Bureš will get the score soon. It's the same cast as in "Studanky" [OPENING THE WELLS], only there's a mixed choir, because a female choir would be weak. It shouldn't be done with a large choir. What choir was "Romance" with? BM wants the soprano solo to be sung by the lady who sang the Queen in "The Fountains". The chorus will be very heavy, I'm the solo tenor. BM quotes a bit from The Fountainhead. Bures may already take the disposition for the film, although the performance probably won't be until next year. BM reflects on the "inexplicable" thing that there has been no interest in publishing the cycle apart from "Studanek". Why is there no interest in putting it on record? At least BM would know what his songs sound like. Are the "Fountains" on long-playing records? Bures is supposed to tell someone in the publishing house that there is one "ugly mistake" in "Studanek" that was not corrected even in the second edition. BM doesn't know if Bureš will get into an unpleasant situation with Mikes again. Has he talked to anyone about the idea of facilitating the performance of the Legend [LEGEND OF THE SMOKE OF BAMBORA NATI] by arranging it for piano? How far along is he with the libretto? Karel [Šebánek] might be coming, wouldn't he be tempted too?
Diplomatic transcription of the letter

[Schönenberg] unor  9. 59.



 



Mily priteli Buresi:



 



Jak jsem vam slibil pracuji ted na vasem Mikesovi, je to znova prekrasna poesie ale musi se clovek do ni nejak dostat, myslim spojit ji s hudbou.[1]



Tak dostanete partituru brzo, ja stale musim pracovat pomalu.[2] Je to torez obsazeni jako ve studankach dve housle, viola a piano ale ovsem smiseny sbor, zensky sbor by na to byl slaby.[3] Tim ovsem nemyslim aby to bylo provedeno se sborem velkym, to ubira na poesii. Nevim s jakym sborem byla Romance?[4]



Ted bych chtel aby to Sopranove Solo v Mikesovi zase zpivala ta dama co zpivala Kralovnicku v Studankach, neni-li to pro ni ovsem vysoko, uvidite.[5] Sbor bude asi znacne tezky a je tam Solo Tenor. Take tam cituji kousek ze studanek[6]. To jsou tedy posledni novinky a muzete uz vziti disposice k Filmu ackoliv provedeni bude zase az pristi rok.[7]



 



Ted je jedna vec jaksi nevysvetlitelna. A sice ze mimo Studanek nebyl vubec zajem u publikaci cyklu i pres to ze jsem jist ze by se partituty prodavaly jako Studanky. Rovnez zadny zajem o natoceni na desky coz by jiste naslo mnoho ohlasu. Proc?[8] Ani pokus o privatni natoceni treba na pas nebo privatni desku abych aspon sam vedel jak ty vsechny pisme zni[9], pres Radio se mi to nepodarilo chytnout a ostatne to jsou zase jenom Studanky, jez jsou nahrany. Nevim zdali uz jsou na dlouhych diskach?[10] To jsou tedy pro mne zahady. Budeteli mluvit s nekym z Nakladatelstvi[11] reknete jim ze ve Studankach je jeste jedna oskliva chyba v prvnim sole Kralovnicky jez nebyla opravena v druhem vydani tak snad bude v tretim?[12]



Nevim zdali se S mikesem nedostaneme zase do nemile situace, vsak vite.[13]



Nemluvil jste s nekym o tom napadu usnadnit provedeni Legendy s upravou pro piano, (bez tech exotickych nastroju[14]



Jak jste daleko s librettem[15]?



Karel[16] mozna ze se zde objevi. Vas to nelaka?



        Mnoho zdravim         vas                                                                                                    



                            B. Martinů



 


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Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescipt, handwritten signature
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