General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderGraham, Martha
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date02.06.1946
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 1946-06-02
Content and physical description
ContentMartha Graham very much regrets that she was unable to attend the performance of Elisabeth Sprague-Coolidge's works; she had insistent appointments.
The news from the theatre is excellent. However, she herself is just beginning an intensive class that will run throughout June. Still, she will do her best to make her collaboration the best it can be.
Still, as a dancer, she sees Benjamin Britten as closer to her than Bohuslav Martinů. She likes BM's music very much, there is a lot of power and beauty in it. Here, however, she fears a 'rhapsodic quality', it is virtually impossible to feel it in dance. She is sure that Arthur Tillman Merritt will understand her. She writes only now because she wanted to exhaust all possibilities of approaching it first.
She is still very interested in the progress of the Symposium and is very honoured to be taking part in it, wishing to be kept informed of the progress of the preparations.
She thanks ATM for all their efforts, and enjoyed the evening, which featured two of Merritt's students.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Note"Martha Graham" letterhead
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Date of digitisation11/2016

Preview only available at the Institute.

Person as subject
Britten, Benjamin
French, Richard F.
Hurok, Sol
Martinů, Bohuslav
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