Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2005/11

From: klarinet <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Vienna Philharmonic and Women -- Bad News
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:45:21 -0500

"...> Not to make too much of a point to it, the reference to Mahler by
> Ken Wolman as a Jewish composer is incorrect. He was a Catholic
> composer, and a great one, too...."

Technically, he was a "Jewish composer" for the first 37 years of his life.

He converted to Catholicism fourteen years before he died.

Glenn B Kantor

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