Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 1998/07

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] MAHLER WAS A BIG CONDUCTOR ALSO!
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:03:06 -0400

MAHLER WAS BIG CONDUCTOR ALSO!

Sergei Rachmaninoff, the famous Russian musician, relates in his
"Recollections" that he once heard Mahler in New York in 1909 conducting
Berlioz's "Life of an Artist" and that in the fourth movement (March to
the Scaffold) he obtained a crescendo of the brass instruments 'such as
I have never heard before.
The very windows shook, the very walls seemed to vibrate'.

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Avrahm Galper

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