Barnet, Miguel: Brief an Henze, Hans Werner. Moskau, Mittwoch, 31. Mai 1978
author: Barnet, Miguel
language: en
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[[There is a star in the center of the stamp.] 31·578-19 Москва X – 49] [Postmark only partially decipherable.]

31 May 1978 [The postcard was send on 31 May 1978, because the stamp bears this date. The subsequent number on the stamp 19 refers to the time.]

Hermano . At last I am abroad. This time URSS. [Barnet was in Europe from at least May to July 1978. He mentions his trip to Russia and Estland in his letter on 3 January 1979.] [An acute accent seems to have been written on the letter R.] Long and beautiful trip. They want to bring Cimarrón. [It has yet to be ascertained whether El Cimarrón was performed in Russia.] Pavel Gruzckó will write you a letter asking for music and lyrics. [A letter from Grushko to Henze has yet to be located.] [It looks like Barnet first wrote lirics and then amended it to lirycs, but it could also be the other way around: lirycs to lirics] Please receive a big and very long kiss from your dearest brother.

Please, please don’t forget me
Miguel Barnet

[Image of a rocket heading to the Moon, on an orange background. 1968 is written in the top left, CCCP in the bottom right.]

Hans Werner Henze
Via La Leprara 00047
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Photo of the Alexander Puschkin momument in Moscow.