From: Steven Graham Belant

Subject: Re: Esa-Pekka Salonen/New York Times

To: Pierre Jelenc

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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 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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