10th November, 1949.
Mr. Paul Sacher,
Schoenenberg,
Pratteln (Basle).
Switzerland.
Dear Mr. Sacher,
Thank you very much for your letter of November 7th.
We have not reprinted Strawinsky’s STRING CONCERTO yet, but I thought a corrected full score was sent to you this Summer. Before I left for my holiday in Austria we had a few scores and parts corrected and I asked our people then to forward a score to you. It seems this has been forgotten. You will receive another score shortly. We are short of parts and I therefore suggest that we send you one each of the corrected string parts, together with a few slips, which we have printed to be pasted over a few lines od the music. I hope this will be satisfactory for you.
I am afraid I cannot answer your query about Strawinsky’s RENARD. This is not among the works we have acquired, so we have no information from Strawinsky himself. I suppose it was just a concert performance.
The Martinu SINFONIA CONCERTANTE was sent to you a few days ago, I understand. We have no material of this work yet and shall be grateful if you will kindly return the score to us soon, telling us whether you would like to give the first performance. We will then proceed immediately with having material prepared.
P.T.O.
[druhá strana]
Thank you very much for your card from Mexico. It was really bad luck that we could not come to Lucerne. We were looking forward very much to your concert and to meeting you and your wife.
I was under the impression that you were coming to London some time in December. Is this so? It would be very nice indeed. I would love to have a long talk with you and, among other things, to hear how you met Strawinsky. Has he shown you anything of his Opera?
With kind regards to you and your wife,
Yours ever,
[podpis] ERWIN STEIN.
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