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...safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese gossip." But it does not resemble Beethoven as much as it does another Viennese, Gustav Mahler. Like Mahler's symphonies, the book is ambitious, traditional though not conservative, often beautiful, but long rather than large...
...Saturday (3-5 p.m.) program at Matthews Common Room will be Sibellius, Four Legends, Opus 22; Mahler. Symphony no. 1 in D major; Piston. Three Pieces for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon; Thompson, Suits for Oboe, Clarinet, and Viola; Rieti, Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano; and Jongen, Concerto, Opus...
...early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic nightmares. In the last movement of his first symphony, Gustav Mahler included a Funeral March in Callot's Manner...
Miss Forrester, it is almost unnecessary to say, displayed a subtle power for blending with the orchestra and an uncanny sense for Mahler's bittersweet melodies...
Although the four pieces span only a half-century in time, they contrast greatly in style. While the Mahler songs express a profound disillusionment, the Bloch and Ravel struggle to retain vitality by assimilating new elements--jazz and modality--and the Kennan by Restricting its own scope...