Word: mahlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a complicated introvert. He made his living by conducting other men's operas. His own, seldom-played, gargantuan (90-minute) scores are full of funeral marches, Dante-like infernos and heavenly serenities...
...Mahler's musical pageants were not easy either for players or listeners. Though they sometimes required large choruses and offstage sound effects, no one but Mahler was ever quite sure what was going on. Mahler offered no-program notes. He once explained a particularly apocalyptic passage to his orchestra: "Here, gentlemen, is where the cow walks across the field...
While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...
...Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; with Desi Halban, soprano; Columbia, 12 sides). The man who is the greatest interpreter of his fellow Viennese, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), conducts the first recording of a long, brooding and sometimes lyrically eloquent score. Performance: excellent...
...prelude, Amsterdamers had done a little Dutch-cleansing of their own, kicking out five Dutch collaborationists. They had also removed the blue paint which the Germans had smeared over the names of "non-Aryan" composers on the concert-hall frieze; now the names of Mendelssohn and Mahler were again visible...