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...question the proposition that directing the Vienna State Opera is an unenviable job [May 10]. But, if you are to suggest that the job broke the health of Gustav Mahler, let us not neglect to mention his next directorship-which actually killed him-that of the New York Philharmonic...
...Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left with his health broken by the fierce battles he had been forced to wage...
...last year the DAS changed it policy. According to Gustav Papanek, Development Advisor of the DAS, "Our conviction was that we were doing a better job in the field than in contributing to research and education at Harvard. The only way we could do more of the second was to bring more people back." Consequently, the DAS will, in the summer of 1969, bring to Harvard two staff members who have been working in Ghana. These men would be in a position to teach undergraduate courses on their experiences in Africa...
...itself, its own new dwellings from which it will emerge and explain itself only for those who can show it a suitable visiting card." Those with the right visiting cards will be gratified by the excellent cast from Deutschen Oper Berlin, plus a libretto with color photos of Gustav Rudolf Sellner's lavish original sets and costumes, including the young lord's remarkable monkey suit...
MAHLER: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (Columbia; 15 LPs). Even at a price of $100 for the handsomely leather-bound set, this blockbuster has for weeks been listed as one of Billboard's bestselling classical albums. As the apotheosis of romanticism, Gustav Mahler is very much in vogue, and the most flamboyant of his latter-day champions is Leonard Bernstein, who has been building up this treasury of recordings with the New York Philharmonic for seven years. No one can argue with the power and variety of Bernstein's interpretations, but his gifts are most appropriate to the later symphonies...