| Content | Bohuslav Martinů sends a list of recent works, including information about their first performances: the CONCERT FOR CLAVIER AND ORCHESTRA (first performance in Prague, Rudolf Firkušný - Václav Talich, 1935; to be performed in Paris in January 1937, Germaine Leroux; also Radio Luxembourg), the CONCERT FOR CLAVECIN AND SMALL ORCHESTRA. (first performed in Paris at the 1936 Triton concert, Marcelle de Lacour; reprise at the Revue Musicale concert), PRELUDES FOR CLAVECIN (first performed at Radio Paris 1936, Marcelle de Lacour), PARID'S COURT (for the Russian Ballet, completed in July 1935), THE VOICE OF THE FOREST (Vítězslav Nezval, performed at Radio Prague 1935), VESELOHRA ON THE BRIDGE (after Václav Kliment Klicpera, completed in December 1935, to be performed at Radio Prague), THEATRE BEHIND THE GATE (Comedia dell Arte, after Jean-Gaspard Debureau, first performed at the Provincial Theatre in Brno in September 1936), CONCERT FOR FLUTE AND VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (to be performed in Paris in January 1937 and in London - BBC). He is also working on a new opera, JULIETTA (or The Dreamer), to a text by Georges Neveux. He asks for details of the commission for the International Festival in Paris, is this also an orchestral work? Didn't get a fee for DUMKA, please send it as soon as possible. Would be grateful if František Bartos would alert "our circles" that performing Slavonic Dances as a ballet in the "Grand Opera" is a bad idea. It had already been written about in the newspapers, but the information BM had sent against this unfortunate idea to Prague had not been published. "The whole thing will do us much harm in musical circles here." |