Klarinet Archive - Posting 000120.txt from 2005/11

From: "Ken Wolman" <rainermaria@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Vienna Philharmonic and Women -- Bad News
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:58:32 -0500

dnleeson wrote:

>>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.
>>
>>Dan Leeson
>>DNLeeson@-----.net

Wikipedia is not Grove, but my employer doesn't subscribe to music
publications and trials are available only to institutions:

>> Shortly before his appointment to the Opera, Mahler converted from
>> Judaism to Roman Catholicism,
>> mainly due to his fears of anti-semitism , which
>> was rampant in the city. Mahler became one of a generation of Jewish
>> intellectuals who had lost their religious identity and taken root in
>> the Austro-German culture they felt they were bound to be a part of.
>> As the composer himself said, "I am thrice homeless: as a native of
>> Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and
>> as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed."

Mahler's niece I believe was in Auschwitz with Fania Fenelon. Parts of the
Titan sound like a Hassidic wedding.

I had an English prof many years ago named Albert Goldman who wrote music
criticism for The Reporter magazine (I think now defunct, as is Goldman).
He wrote about Mahler in the light of Wagner's "scholarly" essay, "The Jews
in Music." Goldman concluded that in Mahler's case,
Wagner was right--Mahler had no single style becaue he was a mockingbird or
cuckoo who had no musical/cultural identity, and therefore stole other
national musical identities. Nasty. No, try vile.

Albert Goldman...something wrong here? This was also, BTW, the guy who did
"biographical" character assassinations of his "friend" Lenny Bruce and of
John Lennon.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:58 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] The Vienna Philharmonic and Women -- Bad News

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.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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