Word: mahlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ventures in the history of broadcasting. In the month since he spoke, BBC has aired, between the hours of 6 and 12 every night, such works as Shaw's Man and Superman (four hours), Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (four hours), Bach's Art of Fugue, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, a psychology lecture by Sir Cyril Burt. a critical appraisal of U.S. novelist Henry James. Coming attractions: all Mozart's violin concertos, all Beethoven's piano sonatas, Goethe's Faust, a dramatization of Melville's Moby Dick...
...Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). In the first recording of these six songs of unrequited love, written by Mahler when he was 23 Koussevitzky's protégée, Carol Brice (TIME, March 11) reveals a promising, big, warm voice. Performance: good...
Unlucky Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...superstitious mystic, Mahler brooded over Beethoven and Bruckner, each of whom died after finishing his ninth symphony. When Mahler had written eight, he tried to dodge the unlucky number nine by titling his greatest symphonic work Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth...
...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...