February 28. 1956
Dear Ernest:
Thank you for your letter and I hope that we could meet one day and soon enough, I still have some little problems on my heart and would like to speak with you. I will be in Europe in May and stay the whole year as I got a job in American Academy in Rome for next fall. I will be in the beginning of may in Paris, leaving here by boat the may 2.
I am sorry about Locandiera and you didn’t mentioned what happehed [happened] with Leinsdorf who seemed very eager to have it and as he is a director of City Center theatre in N.Y. it wouldn’t be a bad beginning. He called me and I wrote you, I think in December but after that I didn’t hear anything new. The music should last with two intermissions just two hours, I think it is a regular size for this kind of comedy. Eventually on could play the one act of the comedy on the bridge as a lever du rideau,?
I didn’t receive any vocal score of the third act so I cannot send it back to you but would like to see it.
I didn’t receive my manuscript non plus.Will call Mr. Adams.
In a way I am sorry for not renewing the contract because I have new scores which could make a hit. You know that I received the Music Critics Award for the Fantasies symph. as the best piece orchetral [orchestral] for last year.
About Artia I do not know still very much and have only a hope that it will work out alright. Potrebuji penize.
That8s [That’s] about all news a let me know about yourself soon.
Yours sincerely
B. Martinu
108 East 60. t
New York 22. N.Y.
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