General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date12.04.1948
RecipientBořkovec, Pavel
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationPrague
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from Pavel Bořkovec estate (from Viktor Hruška), 2021
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMBořP 1948-04-12
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks you for your letter. He was yesterday at the concert [of Pavel Bořkovec's quartet, to which Bořkovec invited him in his letter of 26.3.1948, BořP 1948-03-26]. BM doesn't go to concerts much, he is still tired of it. He liked the concert and attaches a review from the Herald Tribune. On the same evening there was a concert by [Igor] Stravinsky, which Stravinsky himself conducted, so many people were there. BM liked the Borkovec Quartet, especially the 3rd movement, it has verve. The effect was nice. BM couldn't talk to the performers because he left at intermission. Hopefully the League of Composers will let Bořkovec know and perhaps PB will hear the quartet himself. It has been well recorded in the US since the Piano Concerto, which [Rudolf] Firkušný played there. BM doubts that he will come to the [Prague Spring] Festival, it seems that they will not play anything from him there. BM is not quite well yet and certainly would not be able to attend all the festivities there, which he feels they have an excess of. He does not know when he will get home, but will not risk anything until health permits.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript + handwritten signature
Attachmentsreview of the concert from Herald Tribune, Apr 12, 1948, envelope
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIBM
Date of digitisation02/2021

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Person as subject
Firkušný, Rudolf
Stravinskij, Igor
Corporation as subject
League of Composers
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
Pražské jaro
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