General information
Type of the document Telegram
SenderBurkat, Leonard
Sender (corporation)Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sender‘s locationBoston, Massachusetts
Send date11.02.1959
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationSchönenberg, Pratteln
LanguageFrench
Acquiredcopy from Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička, 06/2016
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Owner‘s call numberPBM Kd 19
Call number at IBMBSO 1959-02-11
Content and physical description
ContentLeonard Burkat announces that Radio Swiss will broadcast the premiere of PARABOLY on February 13, 1959.
Included is a New York Times review clipping (2/22/1959) which discusses the afternoon concert by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, where PARABOLY was first performed in New York (2/21/1959). Reviewer John Briggs details all three movements of this Bohuslav Martinů work: the Parable of the Statue, the Garden, and the Labyrinth. BM was inspired by Citadel (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) and Voyage de Thesée (Georges Neveux). JB highlights the richness of this work, especially the Garden section, which contains a musical vocabulary of Impressionism. The work was well received by subscribers. Finally, the author highlights the playing of pianist Eugene Istomin, who impressed as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript
Attachmentsclipping from The New York Times
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atBohuslav Martinu Center
Date of digitisation2016

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Location as subject
New York, NY
Person as subject
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Briggs, John Jr.
Istomin, Eugene George
Martinů, Bohuslav
Munch, Charles
Neveux, Georges
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York
New York Times
Radio Swiss
Composition as subject
The Parables [auth.], H 367
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