CHARLES ROSEN-PERSONAL TYPED-SIGNED LETTER--10/31/1970 PARIS

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You are bidding on personal typed signed letter to me from pianist, Charles Rosen (1927-2012), dated October 31, 1970.
"I am very sorry to have delayed answering to your letter of October 2, but you asked me to program several works which I had recorded some years ago, and which I was not playing this season. I was hoping that I could see my way of working on them again, and delayed only until I could see how my schedule was coming out.  Unfortunately, I have been giving several different programs in London, and also playing the new and enlarged version of Boulez, ECLAT, and he has just informed me that he has added another ten pages for the Paris performance on November 9.  Since I also have recitals on November 8 (Chichester) and 11th and 14th in the United States, I must offer you a selection of the programs I have been playing.
I have just recorded the last six Sonatas of Beethoven for CBS records and shall do the next six (working backwards) next year, and I also have a Beethoven program ti play in Chicago on December 6, so the first of the following programs would of course be the most convenient for me:
A
Sonata in A flat Major, Op 110           Beethoven
Sonata in F minor, Op 57
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Sonata in B-flat Major, Op 106             "
B
Ricercar in six voices from the Musical Offering                         Bach
Goldberg Variations                                                                       "
C
Sonata Op 109 in E Major                       Beethoven
Sonata Op 110 in A flat Major
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Sonata Op 110 in C minor                             "
D
Sonata in A minor, K. 310                               Mozart
Images, Bk II                                                   Debussy
Trope from Sonata No; III                                Boulez
4 Etudes                                                          Debussy
pour les conq doigts - a'apres M. Czerny
pour les sonorites oppesees
pour les arpeges compeses
pour les huit doigts
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Fantasy in C Major, Op 17                             Schumann
These programs are all that I can offer for December 1st with the work that I have at the moment, and I regret not being able to play one of the works you asked for.
Unless Plattsburgh is very near New York City, and comveniently reachable by train (an hour or two's ride) it would be better for me to arrive the day before. I prefer the Steinway piano, e ven if it is older. Could you arrange for me to rehearse on it for a few hours around 3 o'clock on the day of the concert, and for the tuner in come after I have rehearsed (about 5 o'clock), as it will make things much easier that way?
Looking forward to meeting you, and once again with regret for my delay in replying,
Sincerely,
(signed)
Charles Rosen
P.S. I shall be in London again from November 4-8, in Paris on November 9 and in New York (101 West 76th Street, NY, NY 10024) from November 10 on.