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...after conducting the first full performance of his Second Symphony, the Berlin audience was hostile, and the critics fumed about "the cynical impudence of this brutal music maker." The response was characteristic of most Mahler premières. Venerated by a handful of his fellow musicians, Mahler was misunderstood by his public and despised as a martinet by the singers and players who performed under his baton. Now, in the centennial year of his birth, the musical world is taking a fresh look at the last of the great Austrian symphonists. A spate of anniversary performances was inaugurated last week...
...first, Ritchie thought that vandals had broken into Agassiz. The truth, he discovered was that an order by a Radcliffe Operating Services superintendent to take down The Mikado set had been "misunderstood." Radcliffe has admitted responsibility for the damage and will pay for reconstruction of the set, valued...
According to Columnist Graham's commercialized confessions, Fitzgerald after his famous Crack-Up was a brilliant, cynical, romantic wreck, and his life a brief, inglorious skidmark to the edge of eternity. According to this picture, he was a great, misunderstood man who was driven to drink by outrageous fortune, but just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line...
Your report of my speech at the Ford Hall Forum is a disheartening experience. In the limited space available to me, let me mention three points in which your correspondent completely misunderstood what I said...
Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that "on each occasion the number of countries supporting the resolution gradually increases," and wondered how long the government "can go on implementing a racial policy that is arousing more and more opposition throughout the civilized world...