Word: mahlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor; 20 sides; $10.50). A vast, brooding, world-weary work by a composer who, 30 years after his death, still starts critical dogfights. Mahler's friends say that he stormed heaven; his enemies, that he was a frustrated bootstrap-lifter. The friends will welcome this recording of a beautiful concert-hall performance...
...unusual. Finishing off with the boisterous drunkards' chorus from Moussorgsky's "Kovantschina," and the sparkling finale of the "Gondoliers," the program leaves the listener, relaxed on the grass, in a peasant frame of mind--or more so, than would Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle, a Frescobaldi motet, or the Mahler "Resurrection" Symphony...
...begged off, suggested Lukas Foss. He wrote the music in a month, based much of it (by request) on Sicilian folk tunes, turned in a remarkably workmanlike score. Archaic in mood, making deft use of a small orchestra, The Tempest reminded some listeners of Austria's late Gustav Mahler...
...concerts are scheduled for Cambridge this week. On Thursday the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play the following program at Sanders Theatre: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Mathis der Mahler of Hindemith, and Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger. The Stradivarius Quartet will play the following evening in Fogg Art Museum. Their program has not been announced...