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...MINERVA (375 pp.)-Gustav Regler-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Uptown, at the 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A., a group known as the Tichman Trio (clarinet, cello and piano) was threading its agile way through the chamber music of Beethoven and Brahms. Between the two -and a couple of blocks east of Carnegie Hall, where the Boston Symphony was unfolding Gustav Mahler's massive Symphony No. i-choir and soloists at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue were launching into Beethoven's stately Missa Solemnis...
...When Gustav Mahler stepped down from the podium one evening in 1895 after conducting the first full performance of his Second Symphony, the Berlin audience was hostile, and the critics fumed about "the cynical impudence of this brutal music maker." The response was characteristic of most Mahler premières. Venerated by a handful of his fellow musicians, Mahler was misunderstood by his public and despised as a martinet by the singers and players who performed under his baton. Now, in the centennial year of his birth, the musical world is taking a fresh look at the last...
Behind the Curtain. By all reports, he was at least as distinguished a conductor as he was a composer. Born into a non-musical Jewish family (his father owned a distillery) in the town of Kalischt in Bohemia, Gustav Mahler left home to study at the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 15. At 37, after years of composing and a succession of provincial conducting posts in Austria and Germany he became head of the Vienna Opera, and from that time on (1897), he was one of the most powerful men of music in Europe. He renovated the opera company...
...button at 7:50 p.m. a Rolls-Royce discharged Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise at London's Haymarket Theatre where they were to see a performance of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. When there was no trace of a royal welcome, the Queen murmured: "Where are our friends and our tickets?" Gustav shrugged. It was then they learned that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing...