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...criticized First Symphony of Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting...
...affairs of Kreuger & Toll, the holding company, were just as bad last week. Bankers throughout the world read with envy that Mahler's Bank of Amsterdam had broken all its relations with Ivar Kreuger in 1929, suddenly suspicious at his haste in seeking loans, the number of companies he controlled, the big profits he reported. In Manhattan the protective committee, headed by Bainbridge Colby and with Samuel Untermeyer as counsel, passed a resolution asking the Swedish authorities to demand a cash settlement from Kreuger's U. S. bankers before a re-organization of either Kreuger & Toll or International Match...
...Allegro assai, Andante, Minuet, and Trio II. Overture "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn III. Rosita Ecalona, Soloist First Movement from the Piano Schumann Concerto in A minor Intermission I. Caresses Pantcho Wladigeroff II. Moods Joseph Akhron III. Serenade and Intermezzo Erick Korngold IV. Humoresque Max Reger V. On Youth Gustav Mahler...
...Amherst team comprised M. W. Mahler '29, and T. F. Ward '27. Two of the judges and the audience voted for Harvard, while the other judge voted for Amherst. The judges were P. O. Moody of the First National Bank of Amherst, C. R. Green of the Jones Library, Amherst, and Professor Clarence R. Gordon...
...declares, "He has never been known to approach a musical composition from a conventional or customary angle." Born in 1885 (the year Walter Damrosch first conducted the New York Symphony), he spent his early years in the operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew him for several years. He went to Wiesbaden in 1923. It is his practice to spend half of each year traveling outside of Germany, so that Russia, Spain, Italy and Austria...