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...skeletal mob of concentration-camp prisoners shuffle wearily across the stage. As the orchestra surges to the brass-driven climax of the adagio from Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, naked fluorescent lights flash down from the ceiling, garishly illuminating the entire theater. Slowly the prisoners turn away from the audience toward a distant, fiery orange backdrop.Slowly they doff the blankets that cover t heir bodies; on their backs are stenciled stark black numerals...
...Mahlerites are especially pleased with Sir Georg's interpretations of Mahler...
President Gustav Mahler Society Los Angeles...
...make forms clear," he says, "how to hold a movement together, or if I am conducting opera, how to build an act or a scene." These are traits that produce masterfully cohesive performances of old masters like Wagner, or such Angst-prone post-romantics as Mahler and Bruckner. It was Mahler's craggy Fifth Symphony that gave Solti and the Chicago Symphony the first chance to demonstrate their extraordinary combined talents to New York audiences. So stunningly powerful was their 1970 performance in Carnegie Hall that the Manhattanites yelled, stomped and cheered for 20 minutes: it might have gone...
...also watches the stock market. That is not surprising, considering his wealth. Solti's combined earnings from concerts and recordings now probably exceed a quarter-million dollars a year. Royalties from his disks, spurred by the popularity of his Ring and Mahler cycles, have risen drastically in the past several years; he is comforted by the knowledge that if anything happened to him ("Look, I am 60 after all"), future royalties would certainly assure his young family a good income for at least the next 15 years. Yet signs of wealth are extremely hard to detect in his lifestyle...