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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Fromm, Paul
Sender (corporation)	Fromm Music Foundation
Send date	13.09.1956
Recipient	Johnson, Harriet
Recipient (corporation)	New York Post
Recipient‘s location	New York, NY
Language	English
Acquired	copy from Harvard University, 2019
Owner of the source	Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call number	UA V 406.295.1, box 9 of 21
Call number at IBM	FMF 1956-09-13i

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Content	Letter to Mrs. Harriet Johnson . On October 4, 1956, the following orchestral works will be performed at a concert at 8:30 p.m. in the Grace Rainey Rogeres Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: Memorial by Bernard Heiden - premiere (commissioned by the FMF) "Incantation" - Piano Concerto No.4 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. Tickets will be obtained by HJ directly from the MET office. Basic admission tickets are available to the public. PF hopes that HJ will be able to attend the concert. [the concert on 4.10.1956 at the MET featured the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's CLASSICAL CONCERT No.4 INCANTATION]
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Fixation	typescript

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Quality of digitisation	Not professional colour
Digitized at	Harvard University Archives
Date of digitisation	2019

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Firkušný, Rudolf

Heiden, Bernhard

Helps, Robert

Kirchner, Leon

Martinů, Bohuslav

Stokowski, Leopold

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Symphony of the Air

Voice of America

WNYC

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Incantation. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4, H 358

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