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...Weber-Mahler: intermezzo from "Die Drei Pintos...
...inconvenient to attend the orchestra concerts of a week in the music season." How many such must there be! The work comprised 14 quotations from Beethoven, seven from Tschaikowski, three each from Dvorak and Brahms, two each from Schubert and Liszt, and one each from Johann Strauss, Mozart, Franck, Mahler, Bizet, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mascagni. The mixing of musical drinks could not go much farther. And the audience said: "Delightful...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play a program including Mahler's first symphony, a suite "Pelleas et Melisande" by Faure, and pieces by Vaughan Williams and Borodin...
...Gabrilowitsch, with the Detroit orchestra, enters loudly into the Mahler controversy. The conductor is busy, with augmented orchestra and large chorus, rehearsing the Bohemian composer's huge " Resurrection" symphony, which will be performed early next month. The outcry of the people who dislike Mahler's music will arise in as great a fortissimo as any in the symphony...
...there is a veritable cult of Mahler worship. In Europe Mahler festivals are held, and the composer's music is played everywhere to the accompaniment of extravagant applause. In this country Mr. Mengelberg gives the Mahler symphonies with great enthusiasm, while Mr. Bodansky, with his admirable " Friends of Music " organization, performs the composer's smaller orchestral and choral pieces with devoted artistry. It is difficult to evaluate the Mahler works without many hearings. On first impression, they are bad, shapeless, strident, vulgar, but after listening in boredom for half an hour you get a vague sense...