| Content | Robert Vannoy thanks Miloš Šafránek for his reply and for accepting Charlotte Martinů's letters. He is curious about his comments.
He is also grateful for the information regarding the new recordings of Bohuslav Martinů's music. It is difficult to keep track, not much information appears in the press. Since RV has been reading Saffranek's excellent monograph on BM, he had hoped to hear some specific pieces, and now he is beginning to have the opportunity. He was strongly influenced by Sergei Koussevitzky in his formative years and still has a soft spot for him. Now that he knows SYMPHONY No. 4, SYMPHONY No. 5, and SYMPHONY No. 6 (he has pocket scores of the last two symphonies, published by Boosey & Hawkes), he is particularly curious about SYMPHONY No. 1, SYMPHONY No. 2, and SYMPHONY No. 3. He would like to find out where to obtain recordings.
As for the enclosed letters from ChM, RV is somewhat uneasy. ChM was unhappy with some of the issues, but RV was also maintaining correspondence with the MC, and thus trying to remain neutral. ChM may not have been right, RV did not see the matter.
RV hopes that more recordings of Joseph Suk's work will be made at some point, especially A Summer's Tale, the symphonic poem Prague and the Epilogue. And it would be nice to be able to read an English translation of Josef Bohuslav Foerster's autobiography, The Wanderer.
He sends a photograph of himself.
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