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...program leaned heavily toward light music, and the few exceptions received the weakest performances. Brahms' intensely sorrowful "Warum ist das Licht gegeben" sounded disjointed, with the seemingly endless phrases of the first section losing momentum every measure or two; only the final chorale generated a genuine mood. The men's performance of Schubert's "Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern" showed complete insensitivity to Goethe's colorful text...
...MAHLER: DAS LIED VON DER ERDE. This melancholy masterpiece, a symphonic setting for ancient Chinese poems at once contemplating the twilight of life and poignantly recalling its pleasures, has appeared in three new interpretations, each worth considering...
COPLAND: TWELVE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON (CBS). Copland's song cycle deals with the same subjects as Mahler's Das Lied: love, death, nature. But there are no romantic mists to invite reverie in Dickinson's crystalline verses, and Copland's music shades from an impressionistic to a literal approach. Macabre chords open the song I Felt a Funeral in My Brain; a fast-rising whir of melody introduces the line "There came a Wind like a Bugle." Sung by Soprano Adele Addison with the composer at the piano...
...dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated by a faith in the enduring human spirit...
Despised Motive. Although Pope Paul had patently tried to give a Christian message relevant to the world's contemporary economic situation, his encyclical virtually ignored the fact that old-style laissez-faire capitalism is about as dead as Das Kapital. Quite clearly, the Pope's condemnation of capitalism was addressed to the unreconstructed variety that persists, for example, in Latin America. But it was surprising that he did not acknowledge the way in which business enterprise has developed into a creative, socially conscious component of the industrial West. The encyclical took insufficient account of other reali ties-that...