THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ FOUNDATION THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ INSTITUTE THE INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE PRAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL 2010 THE LOST SCORE martinůrevueMAY—AUGUST 2010 VOL.X NO. OF THE CELLO CONCERTO No.1 2 AUTOGRAPHS IN PARIS MARTINŮ & HIS EARLY VOCAL MUSIC Scratch me on my back. It’s too salty. Oversalty. Just politely! Like in Spain. On the backs of the waves. < For more information see pages 6 and 7 (article by Gregory Terian The Lost Score – contents Pierre Fournier and the Martinů Cello Concerto No.1) 2 news 3 Martinů Revisited Highlights 4 martinů revisited Martinů Fifty Years Later ALEŠ BŘEZINA 5 International Martinů Circle 6 research The Lost Score – Part 1 GREGORY TERIAN 8 festival Prague Spring Revisitings PATRICK LAMBERT 10 festival Incantations with Garrick Ohlsson y Print of page 10 from the solo cello part of Martinů’s Cello Concerto No.1 IVANA TABAK as originally published by Schott. It shows the performance markings by Pierre Fournier relating to version 2 and composer's subsequent annotations leading to version 3. 11 special series List of Martinů’s Works IX NEW GIFT NEWTON FRIEDMAN, MEMBER of the 12 research International Martinů Circle, has recently Martinů’s Autographs in Paris donated to the Bohuslav Martinů ALEŠ BŘEZINA Institute a handsome portrait photograph of Martinů. The historic photograph bears 14 reviews a French dedication in the composer‘s Chamber Music Concert, hand to his friends the Speyers and Frescoes in Chicago, Gilgamesh in Paris is dated 1943. Louis Speyer was the PETRA RICHTER, ROBERT SIMON, first oboist of the Boston Symphony. HARRY HALBREICH A prominent figure in Boston, Massachusetts, he was renowned as a great orchestral player and oboe 16 recordings teacher. Martinů and Speyer met in Martinů’s Unpublished Songs Berkshire in 1942. ❚ PATRICE CHEVY, GIORGIO KOUKL 18 events / news 19 new CDs 2 | martinůrevue22010 ķ highlights IN 2010 AGAIN WE ARE CELEBRATING a momentous anniversary – 120 years since the birth of Bohuslav Martinů (8 December 1890, Polička). Numerous ensembles and music organisations have included Martinů works in their 2010 repertoire. We will keep you up to date on this page with the most significant events. MORE INFORMATION > www.martinu.cz > www.czechmusic.org operas MARTINŮ FESTTAGE 2010 17 November — 1 December 2010 Basel, Switzerland OPENING CONCERT 17 November 2010 Introduction Camerata Bern – Carolin Widmann/violin Partita, H. 212 19 September 2010 Concerto da Camera for Violin and String Orchestra with Piano and Percussion, H. 285 OPERNHAUS / BADISCHES STAATSTHEATER KARLSRUHE / GERMANY The Greek Passion / H. 372/II CONTEMPORARY DANCE 19 November 2010 Christoph Gedschold (Conductor & Music Director) Martinů Performing Arts Project Georg Köhl (Director) PIANO RECITAL Florian Etti (Costumes, Scene) 21 November 2010 Martin Stadtfeld, piano www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de Fantasy and Toccata, H. 281 CINEMA 23 November 2010 Cleopatra – Frescoes – Ecstasy Works by Berlioz, Martinů and Skrjabin Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca, H. 352 1 October 2010 Video, directed by Arthur Spirk / / OPERA WROCŁAWSKA WROCŁAW POLAND CHAMBER MUSIC – Duo Plays of Mary / H. 236 27 November 2010 Renaud Capuçon & Gautier Capuçon www.opera.wroclaw.pl Duo for Violin and Cello, H. 157 Duo for Violin and Cello in D major, H. 371 JAZZ – Trio 28 November 2010 Günter Wehinger/flute & friends 22 & 24 September 2010 FAMILY CONCERT NATIONAL THEATRE / PRAGUE / CZ 1 December 2010 Ariane Who is the Most Powerful in the World?, H. 153 / H. 370 – concert performance clair-obscur saxophone quartet Simona Houda-Šaturová (Soprano), Aleš Jenis (Baritone), Ondrej Mráz (Bass), Speaker: Wolfram Berger Based on the ballet by Bohuslav Martinů, Richard Samek (Tenor), Zdeněk Plech (Bass), Aleš Voráček (Tenor), arranged by Christoph Enzel Tomáš Netopil (Conductor) Choir & Orchestra of the National Theatre Opera Programme subject to change. www.narodni-divadlo.cz martinůrevue22010 | 3 MARTINŮFIFTYYEARS LATER ≠ / ALEŠ BŘEZINA ≠ MANNES COLLEGE STUDENTS JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ REVISITED PROJECT THE AMERICAN COMPONENT of the Martinů Revisited project was joined by the Mannes College The New School for Music*), where Bohuslav Martinů taught composition between 1948 and 1956. Among his most famous pupils from this institution is the Chinese -American Michael Beckerman composer Chou Wen-Chung (*1923). Martinů’s association with the then Mannes School of Music also had deep roots in his friendship with 20 years. In the case of the Quartet for Oboe, the institution’s founders, David and Clara Violin, Cello and Piano, H. 315, the programme Mannes, and especially with their son Leopold was linked with the history of Mannes College – Mannes, for whose piano trio Martinů wrote the piece is dedicated to the pianist Leopold a couple of works. Moreover, the school played Mannes, who premiered it on 12 January 1949 a significant role in championing Bohuslav with the members of his trio, violinist Vittorio Martinů’s operatic œuvre in the USA, beginning Brero and cellist Luigi Silva, and with the oboist with a student performance of Comedy on the Mitchell Miller. Sources have previously given Bridge, H. 247, staged in 1951 to mark the com - the date of the quartet’s premiere as November poser’s 60th birthday. This production later 1947, but the New York Times review dated went on to receive the annual award of the 13 January 1949 explicitly states that the Music Critics Association for the best opera performance of the previous day was a pre - performed in the previous year in New York. miere. Further, the review emphasises that the Following the composer’s death, the Mannes performance was part of the inaugural concert School held a memorial concert on 28 Novem - of the Mannes Trio. The accepted chronology ber 1959 at which Rudolf Firkušný, Lillian and of the work’s genesis is evidently in need of Joseph Fuchs, Artur Balsam and other artists revision. Seventy years later the quartet was appeared. The proceeds of the event were used performed by Ryan Walsh (oboe), Yi-Chun Lin to establish the annual Martinů Award. The (violin), Yu-Han Chen (cello) and Shuai Zhao recipients of this award from 1960–63 were (piano). The Sonata for Flute and Piano, H.306, David Tcimpidis, David Loeb, Gregory Proctor was played by Emily Schneck and Dimitri and Ned Bragni. In 1964–65 no awards were documentary Martinů and America (Czech Tele - Glivinsky. The piano version of Act 2, Scene 3 made and in 1966 the private list of Peter vision, 2000). Thanks to the partici pa tion of of Juliette, H. 253 C, in Rudolf Firkušný’s Pindar Stearns, a former student of Martinů’s another three distinguished persona lities – authorised arrangement was performed by the and later long-time professor of composition Marcel Sauer, former director of the Bohemian pianist and musicologist Erik Entwistle, who at the Mannes School of Music, bears the note National Hall in New York, Michael B. Becker - at the conclusion of the evening accompanied “No funds.” man, professor of musicology at New York Daria Titova in the Variations on a Slovak Folk From the very first preparatory meetings with University, and Susan Lucak, president of the Song for Cello and Piano, H. 378. the present dean, Joel Lester, in October 2006, Dvořák American Heritage Association – it was The entire event was an appropriate it was clear that the tribute to Martinů would possible to move the concert from the originally reminder of the distinguished position Bohuslav take the form of a chamber concert fea tur ing planned Mannes College concert hall to the Martinů held within American musical life of the composer’s works and performed by Mannes historically significant Bohemian National Hall. the mid-20th century. ❚ College students. Later on, it was de cided that On 23 October 2009 a sizable audience heard a lecture would be given by the author of this text a representative selection of Martinů’s chamber *) Mannes School was the first American Institution and there would be a screen ing of Jiří Nekvasil’s works dating from the composer’s final to join the International Martinů Circle. 4 | martinůrevue22010 b ] d incirclenews MARTINŮ REVUE (formerly Bohuslav (INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE] Martinů Newsletter) is published (] by the International Martinů Circle PATRON MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ in collaboration with the Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague with the A MEETING of the Board of the IMC took place in Paris on 24 June. Among financial support of the Bohuslav matters considered was a proposal to raise the IMC subscription rates. The Mar- Martinů Foundation Prague. tinů Revue (formerly Bohuslav Martinů Newsletter) was first published more than photo david port david photo Editors ten years ago since when there has been no increase in subscriptions. In the Zoja Seyčková & Lucie Berná meantime production and distribution costs have increased considerably. We GENERAL INFORMATION Bohuslav Martinů Institute have sampled the views of a selection of members who have all agreed that an Members receive the illustrated Justin Krawitz (with special thanks) increase in subscriptions is justified and overdue. We will announce the new rates Martinů Revue published three times Publisher’s Office for 2011 in the next edition of the Revue. a year plus a special limited edition CD International Martinů Circle, o.s. containing world premieres, historic IČ: 22688846 performances and archival recordings Bořanovická 14, 182 00 Praha 8-Kobylisy, [OPERA NEWS FROM THE UK) from the annual Martinů Festival not Czech Republic Second Movement Opera, a recent newcomer to the Martinů Circle, is hop- obtainable commercially. e-mail: [email protected] ing to stage a production of The Three Wishes, H. 175 during 2011. As a prelude The IMC is supported by the www.martinu.cz and preview, they will be performing scenes from the opera with piano accompa- Bohuslav Martinů Foundation and Translation niment at the Tet a Tet Festival, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith on 14 & 15 Au- Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague.