Dear Nathaniel,

You're the last but by no means the least of whom
I am inquiring about the Memorial Concert for Margrit
on July 14 in Konnarock to which you also have been
conscripted.

I spoke first with Anna Ludwig Wilson, a lifetime friend
of Margrit's and mine, who saved Margrit's life last
October 18, by putting her on a plane to Boston for
surgery to Margrit's strangulated hernia. If Anna had
been in Detroit on December 19, there would be no occasion
for a memorial concert.

Anna is an accomplished musician, a flautist who has stopped
performing. Anna thinks the audience-congregation should
participate in the concert with one or more hymns, i.e. 
Bach chorales. What would you think about accompanying the
anemic voices with two trumpets, a violin and a French horn?
Anna is also considering one or more songs, solo.

I spoke with Leah, who is willing to play one of the Mozart
Horn Concerti, Rebekah suggested she might play one of Bach's
partitas for unaccompanied violin, Benjamin suggested you
and he might play the Vivaldi trumpet concerto. I think
this should be the performers' concert and the performers'
program. I each one of you should play whatever he or she
wishes. The concert may be as long as you choose to make it.
There's no reason why we couldn't have two concerts on the
same day, or on successive days. Furthermore, I wish you
would take as active and controlling a role in the
organization of this event as you are inclined. Please
let me know what you think.

Jochen