Martinu and His World

Aleš Březina is a Czech composer, the director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague, and chairman of the editorial board of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition. His critical edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh earned the Best Edition Award from the Association of German Music Publishers in 2016. Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor in the Department of Music at New York University. He has edited two previous volumes in the Bard Music Festival series: Janáček and His World and Dvořák and His World. He is the author of Martinů’s Mysterious Accident and New Worlds of Dvořák.

• Permissions and CreditsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Martinů and His WorldsMICHAEL BECKERMANPart I. Operatic PerspectivesOffice for Dreaming—or the Simple FutureJIŘÍ GRUŠATRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIE“We Have No Railway Station”: Juliette or the Renunciation of MemoryALEŠ BŘEZINAByzantine Music in Martinů’s Opera The Greek PassionMARIOS CHRISTOUMeditation on the First Ave Maria of Bohuslav Martinů’s Sister PaskalinaJON KANTOR MEADOWAmbiguous Historicism in Martinů’s The MarriageMARTIN NEDBALThe Long Shadow of Juliette: Martinů’s Late Musical Aesthetic and the Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No. 6)IVANA RENTSCHTRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIEPart II. Experiments in Instrumental Music from Baroque to JazzMartinů and the Reduction of Music in the 1920sGISELHER SCHUBERTTRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIENegotiating the “Concerto Grosso type” in Paris and Princeton: Martinů’s Multi-Soloist Concertante Works from a Generational PerspectiveBRIAN S. LOCKE“I changed practically nothing”: Bohuslav Martinů’s Collaboration on La Revue de cuisineALEŠ BŘEZINATRANSLATED BY ADAM PRENTISPart III. Escapes and ArrivalsMartinů, Benjamin, and the Changing Experience of Historical TimeAXEL KÖRNER“To My Countrymen—Workers of Cleveland”: The World Premiere of Bohuslav Martinů’s Symphony No. 2MARKÉTA KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ & MAREK PECHAČTRANSLATED BY ADAM PRENTISChallenging Modernism: Bohuslav Martinů’s Works at the Venice International Festival of Contemporary MusicVINCENZINA C. OTTOMANOTRANSLATED BY COURTNEY QUAINTANCEPart IV. Documents and EditionsMore Than Just Corrected Notation: The Bohuslav Martinů Complete EditionALEŠ BŘEZINATRANSLATED BY ADAM PRENTISOn the Complete Edition of Bohuslav Martinů’s CorrespondenceVÍT ZOUHARMartinů’s Notebook of DreamsINTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY MICHAEL BECKERMANMartinů in the U.S.A.: Interviews with the Composer’s American Friends and StudentsCONDUCTED BY ALEŠ BŘEZINAEDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MICHAEL BECKERMAN AND ALEŠ BŘEZINAPart V. CodaMusic and Politics in the Twentieth Century: The Parallel Lives of Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf FirkušnýLEON BOTSTEINIndexNotes on the Contributors