General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderFromm, Paul
Sender (corporation)Fromm Music Foundation
Sender‘s locationChicago, Illinois
Note on Sender‘s location[Chicago, Illionis]
Send date12.09.1956
RecipientSargeant, Winthrop
Recipient (corporation)The New Yorker
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredCopy from Harvard University, 2019
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberUA V 406.295.1, box 9 of 21
Call number at IBMFMF 1956-09-12a
Content and physical description
ContentLetter to Mr. Winthrop Sargeant. On October 4, 1956, the following orchestral works will be performed in concert at 8:30 p.m. in the Grace Rainey Rogeres Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. by Bohuslav Martinů - premiere (commissioned by the FMF), Adagio for Orchestra by Robert Help - premiere (FMF Award) and Toccata for winds, strings and percussion by Leon Kirchner - first performance in New York (FMF Award). The works will be performed by Symphony of the Air conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Rudolf Firkušný as piano soloist. Bibliographical details of the composers are enclosed. "Voice of America" will record the concert for European broadcast. Radio station WNYC will broadcast the concert locally. WS will receive tickets directly from the MET office. Basic admission tickets are available to the public. PF hopes WS will be able to attend the concert.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NoteCarbon copy
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Symphony of the Air
Voice of America
WNYC
Composition as subject
Incantation. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4, H 358
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