General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderPiston, Walter
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSouth Woodstock, Vermont
Send date07.09.1946
Send date note7.9.[1946]
RecipientMerritt, Arthur Tillman
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Note on Recipient‘s location[Cambridge, Massachusetts?]
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberMs. Coll. 100, box 1
Call number at IBMMer 1946-09-07
Content and physical description
ContentWalter Piston thinks it would be better to cut Olivier Messiaen [from the program of the concert at the Symposium of Music Criticism, September 1-3, 1947, at Harvard University, Massachusetts]. If he calls back later, he will surely understand that they had to make that decision. What about [Bohuslav] Martinů? WP does not recall him being discussed as a possibility. On the contrary, he thinks it would be good to take someone young who is not very well known. He suggests Alexei Haieff.
He mentions the good news about Malipiero.
WP returns to Belmont on 16 Sep and will be at Arthur Tillman Merritt's disposal. Piston's 1st quartet was played at Dartmouth.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Note"Harvard University, Department of Music" letterhead
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Date of digitisation11/2016

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Location as subject
Belmont, Massachusetts
Person as subject
Haieff, Alexei Vasilievich
Malipiero, Gian Francesco
Martinů, Bohuslav
Messiaen, Olivier
Corporation as subject
Dartmouth College
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