LEONARD BERNSTEIN Very fine content A.L.S. "Lenny B", 2pp. 8vo. on hotel letterhead, Pittsburgh, Feb. 9, 1949 to noted Austrian music publisher and author Hans Heinsheimer, then employed at publisher G. Schirmer in New York. At the height of his compositional period, Bernstein refers to his Age of Anxiety: Symphony #2 which he was to premiere with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony the following April. In small part: "...Good news for a change! Kouss. has promised, finally and definitely, the premiere of The Age of Anxiety for April. Originally it was to be the 22nd & 23rd, but my benefit dinner for [Chaim] Weizman and Truman on the 23rd interferes...Will check officially with Leslie Rogers [manager of the B.S.O.]. I've just this minute finished scoring the first movement (and to quote Bill Schumann [President of Julliard School of Music and Schirmer Director of Publications] is it beautiful!!). I'm mailing it to you registered and you can begin extracting once. I hope to finish the second movement by next week. It's a mad race and I'm exhausted, but it's challenging, and I hope to have it all scored by the beginning of March (Please God!). Please let me know right away how the print comes out...I've set two Rilke poems for [mezzo soprano] Jennie Tourel...and she will do one or both at her...recital...they make a fine group: 'Love songs' by Rilke. And love to you... " . Fine condition. From the collection of Bernstein's assistant, promoter and fellow composer, Phillip Lambro. $1,500-2,000