Re: Esa-Pekka Salonen/New York Times
From: Steven Graham Belant <sbelant@eis.calstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Esa-Pekka Salonen/New York Times
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Jen mia rebato:
December 8, 1994
Editor
Arts and Leisure
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York NY 10036
RE:27 November 1994 Arts and Leisure Article :
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Director, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Dear Editor:
Having just orchestrated a national "concert" of some 90 Esperanto
speakers out of our 15,000 or speakers in the United States, let me assure
the esteemed director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic that Esperanto by
no means is a language which "no one speaks." The latest World Book of
Facts conservatively estimates the total number at 2 million–more speakers
than Icelandic or Gaelic. I personally invite Esa-Pekka Salonen to come
conduct a concert in his homeland, where the Esperanto World Congress
would gladly provide him an audience of several thousand Esperanto
speakers in Tampere next summer; or that he simply invite the
many Esperanto speakers in the Los Angeles area to one of his concerts.
Steve Belant
Sacramento Delegate
World Esperanto Association
I communicate worldwide in an Steve <sbelant@ctp.org> Mi komunikas monde
international second language __ _ _ __ _ _ _ ___ _ internacidualingve
allowing us all to relate |_ (_ |_)|_ |_)/_|| | / allasante al cxiuj
to one another as equals. |__._)| |__| | || | | _/ ni rilati egalule.
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