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...visitor said, "typically Mahler-esque"-which seemed a self-evident remark after listening to Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony...
Final Version. Dr. Erwin Ratz, president of the International Gustav Mahler Society, demurs. The trouble with Cooke, says Ratz, was that he misunderstood how Mahler worked. The composer normally went from sketches to "raw scoring" to a final version, and, according to Ratz, he was at least two years away from a final version of the Tenth. "Even with his finished works, Mahler did retouching in the instrumentation after a few performances; you cannot say that Das Lied von der Erde and the Ninth have the same character they might have had if Mahler himself had lived to perform them...
...Lewisohn Stadium, Conductor Josef Krips gave agile proof that he is descended from a long line of conductors of the Viennese school, a special breed that has all but disappeared from the world's concert halls, a line that once rang with such great names as Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner (Krips's teacher), Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. What those artists had in common, says the Buffalo Symphony's Krips, was a sense of continuity, a conviction that music should be "one long legato line." Krips's own legato line as he conducts Beethoven and Brahms...
Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of West Berlin, will give the annual Gustav Pollak Lectures at Harvard this fall...
...done its job of stimulating a free flow of saliva, the dentist collected a saliva sample from each child and mixed it with a special reagent. Within a few minutes, the samples showed a variety of colors. These color changes, according to an inventive biochemist, Dr. Gustav W. Rapp of Chi cago's Loyola University, predict whether a child is likely to develop a lot of tooth cavities. The colors (from an enzyme in the saliva) will indicate the children's relative risks: blue means little chance of imminent cavities, orchid means some chance, red suggests real danger...