| Content | Red notebook with notes by Miloš Šafránek:
From the Paris meeting with Bohuslav Martinů and Rosalie Barstow on September 14, 1955, when they met at the 62nd R. Pierre Charron. This was the first time that MS met Rosalie Barstow. He describes his impression of her. They went to dinner and to a café. They had conversations in different languages - English, Czech, French. BM was interested in the works of his youth, MS asked for details about a number of other BM compositions - what was behind DVOJKONCERT (Vítězslava Kapralová, Three Wells, etc.). BM also composed songs for Vítězslava Kapralová in 1937-38, which he regularly brought to her. For example, he wrote for her Priletěla [The Swallow] - in a similar vein he wrote PÍSNIČKY [ON ONE PAGE] in New York in 1943. They went on to debate the 4. SYMPHONY, THE SOLDIER AND THE DANCER, TRIO D MOLL [TRIO No. 2], TRIO [No. 3], KITCHEN REVUE, 2. SYMPHONY, SYMPHONIC FANTASIES, 5. SYMPHONY, and others.
Meeting 15.9.1955 - car journey and long and serious conversations. BM cannot hear out of his right ear.
Description of BM's meeting with Rosalie Barstow in March 1946: they met on a bus in NY, BM approached her saying he was looking for an English teacher. 15.8.-1.9. in Great Barringotn Hospital. According to the doctors he was not supposed to survive, but he did.
He would have outsourced the songs to a Czech publisher if they offered him $2000 like Boosey & Hawkes.
M.S.'s notes on the songs? COMEDY ON THE BRIDGE, SINFONIETTA GIOCOSA, SYMPHONY No. 5.
Notes or manuscript of an article in Czech entitled "For Brno: Paris 1955-56" describing the meeting of MŠ with BM and RB.
Transcription of a letter from MS to an unknown addressee.
Transcripts of two letters from BM to RB dated 10 June 1953 and 11 June 1953 [see BarR 1953-06-10 and BarR 1953-06-11].
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