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...program Adams chose for the group demanded a far higher level of musical competence than one can reasonably expect of any undergraduate organization--even one as fine as BSO. The works, Mozart's overture to "The abduction from the Seraglio", Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, the Adagio from Mahler's Symphony No. 5, and Debussy's "L'Apres Midi d'une Faune", would trip up even the most agile professionals...
Charming, schmaltzy, waltz-prone Vienna flips for charming, schmaltzy waltz-prone Leonard Bernstein. In 1966, he conducted a rousing Falstaff at the Staatsoper, and last year he presented Mahler's Second Symphony, in a performance that seemed more authentically Viennese than anything since the days of Bruno Walter. Then, last week, there was Lenny again, preparing to conduct that most Viennese of operas, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. He professed to be terrified. "Every Vienna taxi driver knows Rosenkavalier as well as he does the national anthem," said Bernstein, adding with a little Viennese exaggeration...
...14th birthday and finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
...MAHLER: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (Columbia; 15 LPs). Even at a price of $100 for the handsomely leather-bound set, this blockbuster has for weeks been listed as one of Billboard's bestselling classical albums. As the apotheosis of romanticism, Gustav Mahler is very much in vogue, and the most flamboyant of his latter-day champions is Leonard Bernstein, who has been building up this treasury of recordings with the New York Philharmonic for seven years. No one can argue with the power and variety of Bernstein's interpretations, but his gifts are most appropriate to the later symphonies...
Struggling Keys. Nielsen's relative isolation during his working years in Denmark helps to explain his early obscurity. But at the same time, that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...