Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Stock. But in fact a lot has changed, including the times and jazz -and Goodman's relation to both. For one thing, at 58, he now devotes at least a quarter of his professional life to classical music, and has emerged as a leading concert performer. He broadened the clarinet repertory by commissioning works from such composers as Bartok, Hindemith, Copland and Milhaud, and he has made his mark in the standard works through such recordings as Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, which has sold 40,000 copies, an impressive total for a classical...
...première of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that "the composer should be shot." The first Vienna performance of Mahler's Fourth drove the audience to such fury that fistfights broke out all over the concert hall. Conductor Hans von Bülow refused to perform Mahler's works because they were "much too strange." In the face of such hostility, Mahler remained stoic. "My time will come," he predicted...
...this year-three of which are currently among the 40 best-selling classical LPs. At least four record companies are issuing complete sets of the symphonies under a single conductor. The Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg is planning an unprecedented series of seven Mahler concerts for the orchestra next season, three of them in New York. In Paris, no fewer than ten concerts since January have featured Mahler compositions. And in Austria last week, the Vienna Festival wound up a monthlong, twelve-concert survey of nearly all of the composer's major works. Appropriately, leading Mahlerite Leonard Bernstein...
Mahler's own musical resurrection is all the more impressive in view of the practical and esthetic difficulties that bristle throughout his work. Most of his symphonies are so long that they take up an entire concert, often require more than 100 instrumentalists and at least that many singers (his Eighth Symphony is scored for as many as 1,000 musicians). Folk tunes, military marches and café ditties jostle each other in the symphonies-sometimes with deliberately sarcastic effect-against rich, romantic textures and harsher lines that range out boldly to the limits of traditional tonality. Mahler plunges...
Married. Jacqueline Du Pré, 22, Britain's ample (5 ft. 9 in.), exuberant mistress of the cello; and Daniel Barenboim, 24, her occasional concert partner; in Jerusalem, after Jacqueline converted to Judaism...