General information
Type of the document Letter
Sender
Sender (corporation)Fromm Music Foundation
Sender‘s locationChicago, Illinois
Note on Sender‘s location[Chicago, Illionis]
Send date13.09.1956
Recipient
Recipient (corporation)Chicago American
Recipient‘s locationChicago, Illinois
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 1956-09-13m
Content and physical description
ContentLetter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune. 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 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. Basic admission tickets are available to the public. [the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's CLASSICAL CONCERT No. 4 INCANTATION was performed at the MET on October 4, 1956]
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
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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