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...MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (London 4212). An unmatched rendering by Conductor Bruno Walter and Contralto Kathleen Ferrier...
...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...
President The Gustav Mahler Society...
...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...
...Mahler movement was the supreme irony of the evening. Rendered almost trivial by the surgery which removed it from the symphony, the Adagio was given a sympathetic performance despite the inevitable failure of the undermanned strings to produce the necessary breadth of sound...