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...visitor said, "typically Mahler-esque"-which seemed a self-evident remark after listening to Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony...
...fact is, Mahler never completed his Tenth-and last week's tape was, in part at least, no more than an earnest piece of musical fiction. The tape was made from a 1960 BBC broadcast of an orchestrated version of the symphony prepared for performance by English Musicologist Deryck Cooke. After one performance, Cooke's work was withdrawn at the insistence of Mahler's widow, but it lives on in a number of jealously guarded pirated recordings. Meanwhile, Mahlerians passionately argue the ethics of completing a symphony left unfinished at the composer's death...
...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...
Died. Bruno Walter (born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), 85, peerless, poetic interpreter of romantic music, a Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...
...London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give him ten years...