Dear friend Bureš: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Miloslav Bureš. Eds. Vít Zouhar & Gabriela Coufalová

The monograph documents the preserved correspondence between the composer Bohuslav Martinů and the poet Miloslav Bureš. It represents a unique testimony to their having working together on four cantatas: Opening of the Springs, The Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops, A Dandelion Romance and Mikesh from the Mountains. Furthermore, it serves to document the sheer difficulties of communication between East and West in the second half of the 1950s. This period picture is supplemented and extended by the correspondence Martinů and Bureš conducted with other addressees, which duly reveals other meanings and nuances of that which the two artists communicated to each other.

1. edition,2017, 364 pp, ISBN 978-80-244-5133-6

Available at https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/en/978-80-244-5133-6