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...nine symphonies of the late Gustav Mahler are colossal, brooding, heaven-storming, seldom-played. This week,* the Radio City Music Hall symphony began to play them all, conducted by Erno Rapee...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
...Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Composer Mahler, who died in 1911, was the last and least appreciated of the great Central European symphonists. His fledgling work, songful and ironic (in a jocular funeral march on the round Frere Jacques), gets a rousing first recording...
...Gustav Bergson, Mower A-11, studied at Harvard as a graduate student for three years, receiving his Master of Arts degree...
While Dr. Goebbels was trying to get over Der Snag, more trouble popped up at home. A clandestine short-wave station calling itself Gustav Siegfried Eins began sending out anti-Nazi propaganda from inside Germany. Its voice identified itself as "The Chief." The Chief's policy was anti-Semitic and anti-Communistic, as well as anti-Nazi, leading listeners to suspect a group of old-school monarchist Army officers. Chief gripe: the awarding of the Iron Cross to SA and SS men for killing Jews and Communists. Sample...