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When Gustav Mahler stepped down from the podium one evening in 1895 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...
...Lawless Years (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Première of a new drama series based on the Prohibition adventures of muscular Manhattan Detective Barney Ruditsky...
...gave to visitors ("Let them come in," he would say. "They may want to confess"). At the Venice music festivals in 1953 and 1956, he filled St. Mark's with music such as the great cathedral had not heard since the 16th and 17th centuries, including the world première of Stravinsky's moving Sacred Canticle to Honor the Name of St. Mark...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Première of an ambitious news show that attempts to look at everything under the moon-and probably a few things on it. The opening program, with Chet Huntley as narrator, deals with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have escaped from East to West Germany...
American composer to watch: Wisconsin-born Lee Hoiby, 33, whose first opera, The Scarf, had its première last week at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto (TIME, June 23). Based on a Chekhov short story, the opera tells of a Circe-like enchantress who sits in an isolated farmhouse on blizzardy nights and without the knowledge of her aging husband, lures in passing bucks with a wave of her crimson scarf, symbolizing her occult powers. After a postman spends the night, the husband rebels; the wife silences him by strangling him with her scarf. At Spoleto last...