| Content | Bohuslav Martinů writes to Vladimír Vaňek to disabuse him of a mistake which he does not know how it could have happened, namely that the Brno Theatre would perform Greek Passions because the opera is not yet finished. It must be the five-year plan and planning for the future. They are as confused as when our Germans from the Upper Suburbs sang our national songs: 'Nanynka went toseli, toselicka, she tore up lupeny, lupenycka, tytyty, tytyty, you'll be platyla. Also Dilia in Prague is planning somehow quickly, they announced the performance of JULIETTE in Wiesbaden already in January, when the translation is not even finished yet. The news from home about František Martinů is bad. In Prague they discovered that BM's influence on Czech music is nonexistent and that the young are following Shostakovich and Prokofiev, that's logical, isn't it? After his stay in Brittany, BM is still lazy and doesn't know when he will get over it. VV is supposed to follow the culture in Venice, BM is interested in who got the prize for opera, they are supposed to announce it in October [BM wanted to enter the competition with ARIADNA]. GILGAMES is supposed to be performed in Turin these days, but BM doesn't know anything, he only gets the news after the death in a week. |