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t.c.
v Těšeticích
V dokonalé úctě oddaný
Brno, 11/VII. 1906.
Esteemed director!
u Olomouce. —
C.M. Hrazdira
Since I have not had any news from dir[ector] Frýda, I correctly assumed that he was
probably late in writing to you. But there will be plenty of time if I get the [full] score
in August. Meanwhile I can make do with the vocal score. I have devoted myself to
studying Jenůfa again and hope that I will succeed in perform the work even better
than before. I have already secured a third flautist for Brno. I also think that it would
be in the interests of the dramatic pacing for some places to be slightly cut. This
concerns mainly the two ensembles: ‘A vy muzikanti jděte dom …’ and ‘Každý párek
si musí svoje trápení přestát …’ It can be carried out very easily, I have already
worked it out; if it does not go against your ideas, I would write out these passages
and send them to you to look at. Also some orchestral interludes are a little too long
and hold up the speed of the action, for instance Act 1 Scene 7, ‘Srdce mi úzkostí v
těle se třese, že by mamička aj lidé mohli poznat moji vinu’. After the first sentence
[phrase?] after the word ‘třese’ there is a four-bar interlude; two bars would be enough
for the modulation so that the overall phrase is not too broken up. — etc. — After
Jenůfa’s words: ‘Abychom se mohli sebrat’ there is a 13-bar interlude up to the 4/8
passage at the words ‘Bez toho bude od mamičky’ — I have adjusted this to 10 bars.
These are of course only my suggestions, and I ask for your views on this matter.
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