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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Note on Sender‘s location	[Paris]
Send date	21.01.1938
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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Recipient‘s location	Brno
Note on Recipient‘s location	[Brno]
Language	Czech
Acquired	copy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBM	KapV 1938-01-21

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Vítězslava Kapralová sends her new photos to her parents. One of them is from school with Charles Munch and his classmates, which VK describes in her letter. She and Josef Páleníček were at a Triton concert in black, where she most enjoyed [Canti di strapaese by Gianluca Tocchi], [Henry] Barraud's [Suite pour une comédie de Musset] and [Cantate pour l'inauguration du Musée de l'Homme] by Dario Milhaud, from which she lists interesting compositional approaches and motifs. According to JP, VK does not seem to have a high chance of winning a scholarship to Paris next year. Bohuslav Martinů, however, promised to come up with something. Apparently the Musical Matrix is not really planning to publish those April Preludes of hers until April, she hasn't heard from them yet. She's going to see Don Juan on Saturday and a trip to St. Germain on Sunday. On Wednesday is the BM concert [CONCERT FOR VIOLONCELLO AND ORCHESTRA No. 1] conducted by ChM. She would have gone to study with Nadia Boulanger if she had not gone to America. She'll probably have to go there too. They are to write to her to see how Václav Kapral is after his operation.

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short score excerpt are included in this letter; published in: HARTL, Karla (ed.): Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940, The Kapralova Society, Toronto 2015, ISBN 978-0-9940425-0-7, pg. 128-130

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