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...empire was a satirist's paradise, as Musil demonstrated in his mammoth novel A Man Without Qualities, it was also the most exciting intellectual center in Europe. There were Mach and Boltzman in physics, Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg in music, Adler and Freud in psychology. There were also dozens of writers and journalists, including the brilliant, mordant social critic Karl Kraus, whose anti-paper Die Fackel (The Torch) was dedicated to making its readers "morally aware of the essential distinction between the chamber...
Like Beethoven, Mahler and other musical visionaries, Carter is convinced that time will tell well. Only in the past season or two, for example, has he begun to hear performances (by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Sympho ny) of his 17-year-old Variations for Orchestra that have pleased him - and audiences. By rights, the String Quartet No. 3 should not have to wait that long...
...MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...
...MAHLER'S FIRST SYMPHONY comprised the second half of the program. Although it is considered to be in keeping with traditional symphonic forms, Mahler himself referred to it as a Symphonic Poem in Two Parts when he conducted its world premiere...
...mock Funeral March follows the Scherzo, and utilizes the theme of Frere Jacques--played very slowly, and in the minor key. Intruding in the middle is a portion of martial music, intended by Mahler as a parody of Austrian military bands. Again, Mehta's sense of clarity effectively presented the ludicrous contrasts in the music...