General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderFromm, Paul
Sender (corporation)
Send date23.08.1956
RecipientWickerhauser, Carl
Recipient (corporation)United States Information Agency
Recipient‘s locationWashington, D.C.
LanguageEnglish
Acquiredcopy from Harvard University, 2019
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberUA V 406.295.1 Box 12 New York Concert 1956
Call number at IBMFMF 1956-08-23a
Content and physical description
ContentLetter to Carl Wickerhauser. An exciting event will take place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on October 4, 1956, under the auspices of the Fromm Music Foundation. The Symphony of the Air will perform under the baton of Leopold Stokowski, with Rudolf Firkušný as soloist. The program will include world premieres of Bohuslav Martinů's "Incantation" Piano Concerto No. 4 (commissioned by the FMF), Bernard Heiden's Memorial for Orchestra (commissioned by the FMF), Robert Help's Adagio for Orchestra (FMF Award), and the first New York performance of Leon Kirchner's Toccata for Winds, Strings and Percussion (FMF Award). Paul Fromm imagines that The Voice of America will want to record the concert for European broadcast. Concert programs should be printed by September 6. If CW decides to record the concert, he asks for a reference in the program - "The concert is being recorded by The Voice of America for European broadcast"
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NoteCopy of a letter
Fixationtypescript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atHarvard University Archives
Date of digitisation2019

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Person as subject
Firkušný, Rudolf
Heiden, Bernhard
Helps, Robert
Kirchner, Leon
Martinů, Bohuslav
Stokowski, Leopold
Corporation as subject
Fromm Music Foundation
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Symphony of the Air
Voice of America
Composition as subject
Incantation. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4, H 358
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