BLOCH ERNEST Typed Letter Signed to Paul H Little

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BLOCH, ERNEST. Typed Letter Signed, to Paul H. Little, expressing satisfaction that he is to hold a lecture-concert on Bloch's music at the Temple Isaiah Israel, suggesting that recordings be used of his Piano Quintet [No. 1], Schelomo, and Avodath-Hakodesh, expressing hope for the future through a change in spiritual values, and quoting Walt Whitman: "As he sees the farthest, he has the most faith." 1 page, 4to; short closed tears at upper edge, faint scattered dampstaining, folds. Agate Beach, OR, 22 September 1951

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". . . I am very gratified to hear that you are giving a lecture-concert on my music at the Temple Isaiah Israel. . . . I remember with emotion the moving reception they gave me in November of last year, and I can see no better place where my music may be performed. I really hope that you can have a long-playing record of my Avodath-Hakodesh, Schelomo, Piano Quintet, because . . . the listeners would hear my own voice when I conducted them, and I hope that my music will, better than any words, bring to them my message of brotherhood and hopes for a better future. . . . Any true progress must first start in the individuals themselves, and in a change of heart. This is why spiritual values are more important than ever . . . ."