1969-12-30

Poul Vad writes to Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Ernest Mancoba, and Wonga Mancoba about music and literature. He describes Beethoven's music as full of a wealth of human emotions and compares his music to Shakespeare's masterpieces, even though the music is fundamentally different from literature and cannot be expressed in language in the same way. He writes about Shakespeare's characters Prospero and Caliban (from The Tempest), stating that he does not believe they solely represent the white and the colored man. He is concerned about the fate of The Black Panther Party in the USA and writes that they are subjected to a campaign of extermination. He mentions that one of the leaders, Bobby Seale, who has previously visited Copenhagen, has been imprisoned.