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...last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a complicated introvert. He made his living by conducting other men's operas. His own, seldom-played, gargantuan (90-minute) scores are full of funeral marches, Dante-like infernos and heavenly serenities...
...earth and the vaster sky over it, one man might stand as an epitome of the task and the hopes which the hungry world has placed upon some six million U.S. farmers, the great mass of whom, like him, live between the Rocky and the Appalachian Mountains. He is Gustav Theodore Kuester (rhymes with Easter...
While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; with Desi Halban, soprano; Columbia, 12 sides). The man who is the greatest interpreter of his fellow Viennese, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), conducts the first recording of a long, brooding and sometimes lyrically eloquent score. Performance: excellent...
...Janovsky concentration camp, SS Obersturmführer Gustav Wilhaus used to shoot at prisoners from his office window. Once, to amuse his nine-year-old daughter, he "gave an order to throw two four-year-old children high into the air while he took shots at them. His daughter applauded and yelled: 'Do it again.' He did it again...