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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Martinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s location	New York, NY
Send date	26.03.1956
Recipient	Roth, Ernst
Recipient (corporation)	Boosey & Hawkes, London
Recipient‘s location	London
Note on Recipient‘s location	[London]
Language	English
Acquired	Copy from British Library, Boosey & Hawkes Archives, 12/2019
Owner of the source	British Library
Former owner	Boosey & Hawkes, London
Owner‘s call number	Ms Mus. 1813/2/1/45/1. Martinu, 1956
Call number at IBM	BH 1956-03-26b

Content and physical description

Content	Bohuslav Martinů hopes that the Boston Symphony Orchestra will record SYMPHONY No. 6, the concert was a big event and BM was very satisfied with the performance. BM leaves for Europe on May 2, and should be in Paris around May 9. ER should let him know about his time options for a joint meeting, BM wants to clarify some issues with him. BM will write to Erich Leinsdorf and will arrange a joint meeting. BM will be at the American Academy in Rome next year and will try to promote LOCANDIERA there. The promised parts for the third act of the work still did not come to him. BM came up with some other details to correct during the performance of SYMPHONY No. 6. He sends them to David Adams, who will then pass them on to the London branch of B&H. BM asks if they could bring them to the proofreading in London. After the success of the work at the BM Music Critics Awards, he is in a hurry with the publishing process. ER is to tell John Andrewes that the final title of the piece is: "Dedicated to Charles Munch for the 75th Anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra." BM still doesn't know if Charles Munch will insist on the fact that it was commissioned by him to by listed. BM adds at the end of the letter that he thinks that ER should have kept their contract and greets in Czech "Nazdar".
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Fixation	Typescript, handwritten inscrriptions and signature
Markings	Pencil and blue pen

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Digitisation

Quality of digitisation	Not professional colour
Digitized at	British Library
Date of digitisation	12/2019

Location as subject

Paris

Rochester, New York

Person as subject

Adams, David S.

Andrewes, John

Leinsdorf, Erich

Munch, Charles

Corporation as subject

American Academy in Rome

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The New York Music Critics' Circle Award

Composition as subject

Mirandolina, H 346

Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques), H 343