Dear Rabbi Lamm, Abe Bayer has suggested I write you in regard to “A Letter to the Soviet Pharaohs,” based on the Boris Kochubiyevsky article in the Times, as described on the attached note. I understand that a Friday evening presentation precludes your attendance, but with the hope that wider dissemination of the facts may be of help to Kochubiyevsky and others, I believe it is good to publicize this premiere within the constituents of your organization. Hopefully there will be further presentations of this Cantata-form composition, in Manhattan and elsewhere – possibly in conjunction with appropriate programming, such as a major speaker – in order to get the maximum impact out of this effort. Perhaps this musical outcry will also underline the most touching story of our Georgian Jewish brethren. Cordially, Paul Kwartin