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...party-crasher, the guile of a tax consultant, and the memory of an IBM machine. The winning player must know what musical names to drop at the right time: if he is naive enough to mention Jean Sibelius just now, he is sure to lose points, while Gustav Mahler will get him a lot of mileage this season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that...
...Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...
...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...
Haunted by Ghosts. For all his unpopularity, Mahler also had powerful admirers-Bruno Walter, Richard Strauss, and particularly Arnold Schoenberg, who called him a "saint" and confounded Mahler vith his own early experiments in atonalism ("I don't understand his music," said Mahler. "I am old, and I daresay my ear is not sensitive enough...
...grew older, Mahler became more and more terrified of the madness that haunted his family. He often refused to work in the isolated studio outside his summer home in Switzerland because he was convinced that every move he made was watched by a vengeful "goat-god." On the score of his tenth and last symphony, he scrawled despairing words: "The devil dances with me. Madness seizes me, accursed that I am-annihilates me, so that I forget that I exist, so that I cease to be . . ." Feverish and with a badly weakened heart, he conducted his last concert with...