Word: mahler
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...Vienna Opera pit and recording sessions (the orchestra has probably been recorded more often than any other). Most remarkable of all, it is a cooperative group, rules itself democratically and feels no need for a permanent musical director. Secure in the memory of having been conducted by Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss, it has the sure flexibility of a string quartet, a sense of inner joy not matched by other, more overpowering orchestras. In time, it may even convert American concertgoers to Bruckner...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9:05 p.m., CBS). Music of Mahler and Mozart...
Magic Flute (1791) has Vienna witnessed the premiere of a major opera by an Austrian composer, but under such directors as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Clemens Kraus, it provided a unique climate for performance, fusing Italian fire, Teutonic thunder and Slavic melancholy into a mellowness all its own. For years, Vienna considered itself Richard Wagner's second Bayreuth; it took Bizet's Carmen and Massenet's Manon to its heart after Paris had cold-shouldered them...
...before dinner. Page and his wife (a former ballet dancer, author of a promising 1953 novel, The Bracelet) have two sons, 13 and 16. At college (Cornell '21), Page used to play "the long-necked banjo" to help pay his tuition. Now he has gone hifi, playing Mahler and Sibelius, while he gets in two or three more hours of medical reading or writing after dinner. Bedtime...
There was opera, too. Vienna had its operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there...