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Graeme Downes embraced pop music 10 years ago while finishing a master's thesis on Mahler: Maybe that classical knowledge is where Downes gets his odd chord progressions and aerial, convoluted melodies, with ups and downs intricate enough to match those in even the moodiest soul. As their response to big, bad America (evidence: the stunningly ugly Wild West vulture on the cover), Way Out Where is more "rock," more straightforward than the last two Verlaines outings. On the one hand, as the inspiring title track and the pounding "Incarceration" show, incitement to rock has only helped Downes' songwriting...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Perform Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. Call 2661492 for more information...
Boston Symphony Orhcestra. Open rehearsal on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m. The group will perform Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4. $11. Call 266-1200 for more information or tickets...
...truth is, he probably wouldn't have. Vulgarity and showmanship were always part of the Bernstein artistic ethos. Waggling his hips to Haydn, looking heavenward for motivation in Mahler, Lenny was a marketer's dream, and no one marketed himself more shrewdly than Mr. Music. It was a source of lifelong frustration to him that his serious works -- the symphonies, the operas, the Mass -- were not taken more seriously. But how could they be, when they don't add up to Tonight from West Side Story? It's as if Elvis wanted to be regarded as a troubadour...
...Bernstein's place in history; that's for succeeding generations to sort out. Less an American Mozart than a Saint-Saens, Bernstein was a glib, gifted musician whose ultimate worth seems today to be less than the sum of his many talents. "My time will come," said his favorite, Mahler, and it did. It may also for Lenny. But not just...