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Unbelievably heart stopping
I bought this book when I went to the Holocaust museum in D.C. This book is unbelievably heart stopping. This book takes you into a world of pain and terror. To be able to read about every momment of torture this man witnessed and partook in, is extremely moving. This book takes you deep inside the morbid ways of Hitler.

Amazing!!!
I loved this book but I find it hard to say that because of the sheer fact of what the people in this book went through.Muller's account of his years in auschwitz as a prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers is graffic and upsetting yet you wont want to put it down.It's hard to imagine what these people went through but reading this book is almost like you are right there seeing it with your own eyes.If you are interested in the subject i recommend this book to you, and if you arent interested in the subject i recommend this book anyways.

So difficult to read...
when you know every word is true.The hell this man went through is unimaginable.There isn't a lot you can say,really.The fact that the writer survived is a testimony to his will to keep living and tell the world what he saw and endured.The fact that he can relate his unfathomable experiences at Auschwitz without sliding in to self-pity is remarkable.
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Subjects:  1. Auschwitz (Concentration camp)    2. Biography    3. Czechoslovakia    4. General    5. History    6. History - Military / War    7. History: World    8. Holocaust    9. Jewish - General    10. Jewish Holocaust    11. Military - World War II    12. Muller, Filip    13. Personal narratives, Czech    14. Poland    15. Prisoners of war    16. World War, 1939-1945    17. Biography: historical    18. History / Jewish    19. History / Military / World War II    20. The Holocaust    21. World history: Second World War    22. Judaica   

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Under A Cruel Star & Reflections of Prague
My mother's book, in print since 1973 under various titles, the last being 'Under A Cruel Star', inspired me to write my own side of the story about my lost father, JUDr Rudolf Margolius. Now published and called 'Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century' it fills gaps in my mother's book provided by further research and historical information, some of which was not available to her and which many readers of her book had asked us for over the years. Hopefully this companion volume provides answers to these questions. I hope you find this book interesting and would welcome your feedback.

A mother's undying love for her son; a son's undying love for his mother...
When I finished reading Heda Margolius Kovaly's stunning chronicle of continuous struggle, concentration camp survival, and eventual triumph, I had to stare out my window onto the street below for a long while, watching the people.
extraordinary memoir in several languages
I am the English-language publisher of Ms. Kovaly's extraordinary memoir, that is now being read in major universities around the world for an eyewitness view of twentieth century totalitarianism --in this case Nazism and Stalinism -- in Central Europe. This translation has been the basis for the UK, French, German, Dutch and Japanese editions of this book. There are very few books in any language by or about Czech Jewish women. Another excellent one is my wife Helen Epstein's journalistic memoir of her maternal line of Bohemian Jews titled Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History, which covers the years 1800-1948 in the Czech lands. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1938-1945    2. 1945-1992    3. Czechoslovakia    4. Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia    5. Eastern Europe - General    6. Eastern Europe - History    7. History    8. History - General History    9. History: World    10. Kovaly, Heda    11. Kovâaly, Heda    12. Biography: historical    13. Eastern Europe    14. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    15. Kovály, Heda   

Subjects:  1. American history    2. History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)    3. History-United States - Colonial Period    4. USA   

Subjects:  1. 1968-1989    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Central Europe - History    6. Communists    7. Czechoslovakia    8. General    9. Great Britain    10. History    11. Kavan, Rosemary    12. Politics and government   

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Prague:More Black than Gold
Professor Demetz is especially strong in exploring the religious history of the city.I wondered how he could be so erudite in explaining both the Hussite revolt against Catholicism and Rabbi Loew's conflict with the Jewish establishment.He explained in his beautiful, elegiac afterword that his father's family was Christian; his mother's, Jewish.He spent time in a Nazi labor camp for half-Jews.My suggestion would be to read the afterword first.The bibliography is also very helpful, with rather blunt appraisals of cited works.

Wandering bit of storytelling
What, I wonder, was the point of Prague in Black and Gold? The back cover actually refers to Peter Demetz's book as a city guide - why I have no idea, since it certainly is not even close to that style of writing. It looks suspiciously like a history text, and so I shall treat it, but problems remain. A comprehensive piece on Czech people and history
I have just returned from my first trip Prague and Ostrava. The history of the region is a bit confusing to us who are not familiar with this part of the world. This is an important part of the world, after all the genesis of the First World War is connected to the Bohemian Prince who was also a successor to the Habsburg throne.Read more

Subjects:  1. Central Europe - History    2. Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia    3. Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia    4. Europe - Former Soviet Republics    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History Of Individual Cities    8. History: World    9. Prague (Czech Republic)    10. Social Science / Sociology / Urban   

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Thick growth of trees, no forest
Over the last century or so, a large number of nations have become sovereign entities, recognized by others, members of the United Nations, with flag, airline, World Cup football team, and anthem.These range from Tuvalu and St. Lucia to Nigeria, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan. Everyone knows that there are others, equally deserving of such recognition, that don't achieve it.Kurdistan is a prime example; Tibet, Chechnya, Euskadi, and national states for Native Americans come to mind too.It is interesting to ponder on the historical currents or maybe even accidents that determine whether or not a nation comes into existence.Slovakia's history could serve as a prime example.Never really a nation on its own, the Slovak people endured a millennium of Hungarian rule, only---on coming close to national recognition---to be subsumed for another seven decades into Czechoslovakia, in which country they played perpetual second fiddle.This history could have been written around such a question---why some and not others ?It was not.
A scholarly work
Being interested in the history of my people, I was happy that
Overview of Nation-building/ Survival in a Volatile Region
My desire to learn about this obscure Central European country over-rode my hesitancy ... a hesitancy which stemmed from potentially being over-whelmed with names, dates, and historical events of which I knew litte. Not being a historical buff yet wanting to learn, I forged ahead. Fortunately, the writing style of the author allayed my concerns with the first few chapters which set the pace for a comfortable reading experience. Read more

Subjects:  1. Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia    2. Eastern Europe - General    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. Slovakia    7. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)   

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Concise, effective--and best not left to the coffee table!
The author delivers a guide that the true European cafe wanderer will find eminently useful.
Don't Leave Home Without It
This is an excellent guide to finding some of the real treasures in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague - the coffee houses. In this suscinct, yet detailed piece, you become very close to the rich and splendid aromas and bright and unique personalities and romance that each of these social "temples" have to offer. Not only has the author captured the essence of the coffee houses, but she also shares with us interesting historical details, perspectives and notes. Enjoy the comments and discriptions of these "museums" with special attention to one of my favorite subjects, architecture. Absolutely a joy to read and use as a compass through the wonderful streets of these absolutely fantabulous cities. A Great Cup of Coffee and More
As we prepare to visit Vienna for the second time, this book is helping us to prepare our itinerary adding this time many visits to those sometimes off the beaten track coffee houses.What a gem of a book, packed with so much valuable current information such as addresses, hours, etc., as well as historic data.Its definitely being packed in our carryon luggage along with a couple tried and true tour books.Here's to the author ... thanks to the last drop!How about some other city editions? ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Austria    2. Budapest    3. Coffeehouses    4. Czech Republic    5. Guidebooks    6. History: World    7. Hungary    8. Prague    9. Travel / Restaurants    10. Vienna    11. Restaurants    12. Travel    13. Travel - World/Europe   

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The BEST
I have this book and bought it as a gift for a relitive..whose has been to Prague.and will be going back again this year.He was thrilled with this gift..and could not say enough about how pleased he was with all the color pictures...This rates as one of the Best on whats being shown now at the Museum...and its just a beautiful book..a very good value.B.W.

Prague, Still One to the Most Beautiful Cities of Europe
PRAGUE, THE CROWN OF BOHEMIA, 1347-1437 is a great example of how a catalogue for a museum exhibition canfill a hole in art history.Though visitors still throng to this magnificent city, few know enough about its history in the arts except for a isolated facts like Mozart's 'Prague Symphony'!This beautiful, rich book focuses on the 90-year period when the crowned heads of Bohemia pulled out all stops to make Prague the cultural equal of Paris and Rome.The resulting architecture, sculpture, street vistas, paintings, incomparable stained glass, and even the carved gold antiquities are among the finest examples of the craftsmen's art.
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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Art, Gothic    4. Art, Medieval    5. Czech Republic    6. European    7. Exhibitions    8. History - General    9. Prague    10. Art / History / European    11. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    12. History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600    13. History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400   

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Protestanism    2. Czech Republic    3. Europe - Germany    4. History - General History    5. History and criticism    6. Hymns    7. Hymns, German    8. Institutions & Organizations    9. Jachymov    10. Jâachymov    11. Lutheran Church    12. Music    13. Reformation    14. Religious - Hymns    15. Germany    16. History / Germany    17. History of religion    18. Lutheran Churches    19. c 1500 to c 1600   

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Compact travel guide
I had used the top 10 for Amsterdam.I find it easy to carry, to the point, and the maps come in handy.

This is the Only One You Need
I like the "Top 10" travel guides because they pack a wealth of useful information, with lots of photos and maps, into a very compact size. The "Top 10 Prague" travel guide is no exception. It is slim enough so that it can easily fit inside a small purse.
Great Travel Guide, Beautiful Coffee Table Book!
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Subjects:  1. Europe - Eastern    2. Europe - General    3. Guidebooks    4. Prague (Czech Republic)    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. Czech Republic    8. History / Europe / Eastern    9. Travel & holiday guides   

Editorial Review

Jan Novak took his family to Prague for a year, and one of the results is this delightful book. Casting an ironic eye on the country in which he grew, Novak remembers the Iron Curtain country of his childhood and observes the farcical contradictions of post-Communist Prague. Witty, astute, erudite, and willing to share his humiliations for the sake of honesty and a good story, Novak touches on Prague lore (the Jewish golem, the clockmaker whose eyes were poked out by a jealous king), Prague history (including the Velvet Revolution martyr who didn't exist), and the Prague of 1992, where an encounter with a pickpocket on Charles Bridge marks the moment they stop being tourists and Prague becomes home. Insightful and very funny, Read more

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More an insider's view than a travelogue
Novak's strength lies in his ability to choose the right anecdote for his message. In a few pages about a Skoda car dealer, for example, he tells you much more about post-communist economics, Czech character, and the slippery negotiations needed as an Eastern bloc society adapts the mannerisms of the West. As a returned emigre, he's in the ideal position to contrast his decades in Chicago with his decades in a provincial town in the Czech republic. His bilingual skills allow him to be a stealth Czech--his attitude has become American, but his mother tongue lets him "spy" on how his compatriots "really" act out of earshot of tourists. Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Americans    3. Authors, Czech    4. Central Europe - History    5. Civilization    6. Czech Republic    7. General    8. Homes and haunts    9. Intellectual life    10. Novak, Jan,    11. Politics - Current Events    12. Politics/International Relations    13. Prague    14. Prague (Czech Republic)    15. Novak, Jan   

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Beautiful Photologue
Simply beautiful in its layout, this book explores the popular and hidden corners of this old city, untouched by the wars that so damaged much of old Europe. The photos are simply perfect in bringing the feel of Prague.
Unbelievably great book at an unbelievably low price
Buy now!I was busy the day this book arrived in the mail but I had to stop and look through the whole book page by page - all 136 of them.Large format book with spectacular pictures of all the well-known and many of the lesser known sites around Prague.Every page is jam-packed with beautiful pictures and concise legends.Not an academic-type book but plenty of text present as well for those who can stop looking at the pictures long enough to read it.Highly recommended and worth many times its price.Only drawback at all is I would have liked to have seen more on Vysehrad and those 4 incredible statues in the park next to Sr. Peter and Paul Church but that is only a personal wish and in no way detracts from this spectacular book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia    2. Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia    3. History - General History    4. Pictorials    5. Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Europe    6. Travel    7. Sale Books   

Subjects:  1. 1854-1928    2. 1862-1918.    3. Contributions in music theory    4. Criticism and interpretation    5. Debussy, Claude,    6. History & Criticism - By Composer    7. History & Criticism - General    8. Instruction & Study - Theory    9. Janacek, Leos,    10. Janâaécek, Leoés,    11. Mer    12. Music    13. Music Of The 19th Century    14. Music Theory    15. Music/Songbooks    16. 20th century music    17. Composers & musicians    18. Debussy, Claude    19. Former Czechoslovakia    20. Janácek, Leos    21. Janâaécek, Leoés,--1854-1928--Criticism and interpretation    22. Music / General   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Czech Americans    3. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    4. Genealogy    5. General    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. American history    10. History / General    11. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    12. USA   

Editorial Review

Of all the documents of the Holocaust, this cookbook compiled from memory by the female prisoners at Terezin, a way station to Auschwitz, may be the most remarkable. The Terezin prisoners recalled and wrote down their recipes for chocolate torte, breast of goose, plum strudel, and other traditional dishes not because they thought they might ever need them--they were surviving on scraps and potato peels at the time--but as a testament to the future, so that their grandchildren might receive a fragment of their inheritance. The manuscript found its way in 1969 to Anny Stern, the daughter of Mina Pachter, whose poems on barracks life are also included. ... Read more

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Haunting and Historical
This book is an amazing document and is a important part of holacaust literature. Furthemore it is most moving and keeps us connected to the past.

A unique book
This book is a unique combination of scholarship, history, and memory. Although it contains recipes, this is not in any traditional way a cookbook. In Memory's Kitchen is the moving story of how during World War II the women of the Terezin concentration camp spent evenings writing down recipes that reminded them of their previous 'real' lives: when they lived with and cooked for families and friends. They substituted memory for food and in doing so kept their humanity alive. The 'recipes' were smuggled out of the camp and years later found their way to the surviving daughter of one of the 'cooks.' Definitely worth reading.

Another insight
This deeply moving book doesn't pretend to be either a history, or a cookbook.A previously unknown kind of Holocaust literature, it presents itself, as its title implies, as a form of memoir, with all the flaws (inaccuracy being chief among them) and virtues (a vivid evocation of states of mind) of the genre.And there isn't a more telling example of the ravages of the Nazi death camps than the fact that these hungry, terrorized women of Terezin could not remember accurately recipes they had prepared countless times in their lives. Nor is there a more poignant witness to the indomitability of the human spirit than the determination of these women, as they confronted annihilation, to preserve some part of their culture, their memories of the past, their dreams of the future, by writing these recipes down.What a testimony that was to the power of food to nourish the soul as well as the body, and to the force of hope, for defying logic and experience they believed this "cookbook" might survive. That it did is a gift to us all. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery    2. Cookery, Jewish    3. History - General History    4. Holocaust    5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    6. Jewish Holocaust    7. Jewish Studies    8. Regional & Ethnic - Jewish & Kosher    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Women's Studies - History    12. Czech Republic    13. History / General    14. History / Jewish    15. National & regional cuisine   

Subjects:  1. Czechoslovakia    2. Europe - Former Soviet Republics    3. History & Theory - General    4. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    5. Political Ideologies - Democracy    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Social conditions    10. Women    11. Women's rights    12. Czech Republic    13. History / Baltic States    14. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    15. Political structures: democracy    16. Second World War, 1939-1945   

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"A faithless lover's letter of apology" for this city
John Banville, in many of his novels, conjures up the alchemical and scientific wonders of early modern Europe: Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Dr Faustus. His prose always has daunted me from taking on his dense, serious fiction, but perhaps, after this wonderfully self-deprecating, nimbly observed, and precisely rendered collection of thoughts inspired by events and people in Prague, I will try his novels! As Banville prefaces this small but pleasingly compacted assemblage of ruminations, it is not a guidebook but (my words) a momento urbi, a reminder of this city.
Exquisite writing and wonderful anecdotes
Lovers of Banville's fiction will appreciate the same feel for language and beautiful writing which is this writer's hallmark. His knowledge of Prague spans more than 20 years of both pre- and post-communist rule, and very nicely gives the flavour of these two very different periods, without reverting to clich�s about the Cold War, etc. Filled with wondeful personal anecdotes as well as more general interesting knowledge, the book may to some seem incoherent. However it not only makes you want to visit Prague, but gives much appreciated sections on Czhech art photography (I fell in love with the cover - especially the back), astronomy (perhaps not too surprising, given some of Banville's novels), and the strange behaviour of European royalty. Its wide span is to be applauded rather than seen as a shortcoming - it is after all not *meant* to be a traditional travel guide. I finished this book while on vacation (regrettably not in Prague), moved on to some currently popular crime novelist, and almost immediately threw that book away in disgust when comparing the prose to what Banville (true to form) serves up in this little gem. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Banville, John    2. Czech Republic    3. Description and travel    4. Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia    5. Europe - Eastern    6. Europe - General    7. History    8. History - General History    9. Prague    10. Prague (Czech Republic)    11. Travel    12. Travel / Europe / Eastern   

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excellent work on all aspects of this notable type of art glass
The large middle section, pages 136-370, is a catalog of mostly color photographs of Czech glass of the period covered done by the leading, most artistically skilled, glassmakers. This bountiful catalog demonstrates why Czech glass has in the relatively short time since the 1970s when it became widely known throughout Europe and other Western countries one of the most sought-after types of art glass. But the catalog is only the beginning of the varied, extensive content of this coffee-table size work of value to those with a specialized, well-developed interest in the field of glass. Eight introductory essays by experts cover Czech glass from its artistic and historical origins through its worldwide recognition largely from a 1959 exhibition in Moscow and designs for glass works kept at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. Back matter (appendices) include bibliographical annotations of the glass artists; which besides their photographs, includes awards, exhibitions, and references in printed works. The back section after this has facsimiles of all of the artists' signatures. There are also informative sections supplementing the essays preceding the catalog. From aesthetic appreciation of the glass to information on the artists and the industry to crucial technical material such as signatures and more, "Czech Glass" contains everything anyone could be looking for on this subject. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques/Collectibles    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. European    5. Glass & Glassware    6. History - Contemporary (1945- )    7. Sculpture    8. Ceramic arts, pottery, glass    9. Czech Republic    10. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    11. Slovakia   

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A dated classic
Anyone familiar with the growing oevre of Mahler biographies must have come across Adorno's now-classic work. Long considered the authoritative analysis of Mahler's psyche, next to Bruno Walter's first-hand account, this work has not aged well. Clogged with psychoanalytic jargon - yet strangely devoid of the details of Mahler's brief analysis with Freud himself - and weak on the facts, this book should be eclipsed by the far more informative, objective accounts of Mahler's life that have appeared in recent years. Carr's superb volume comes to mind.

provocative and stimulating analysis of Mahler's music
The subject of this classic of musical analysis is the complicated phenomenon ofMahler's music and our response to it.The treatment is philosophical/psychological/analytic and the abstractness and complexity ofthe prose is typical of what one would find in a doctoral thesis, exceptthat it is beautifully written (and Jephcott's translation is itself a workof art). the musical crevices and fault-linesare probed with Adorno
If you know anything about Theodor Adorno, you might well be familiar with the entire edifice of western cultural and philosophic thought; Kant,Hegel,Kierkegaard,and Marx,the history of art,literature,painting and music. Less film,a realm Adorno never got to know. Here in Mahler,we have a concise profile of this one time neglected composer, long misunderstood,even today. I recall a rehearsal with Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic who couldn't quite understand Bernstein's raving from the heart,for clarity yet passion. Adorno knew Mahler's art much better than Mahler ever did for we learn this from Adorno, that Mahler simply abandoned himself to his own intuition to resolve his creative problems. Each chapter in this masterwork in miniature is self-sustaining. In the chapter "Tone" Adorno reveals the basic music materials of Mahler his orchestral pallete.The high positioned violins,in uncomfortable registers where they loose their souls to a menanced, shrill, thin timbre. The string section for Mahler is creatively undisciplined to begin with, each playing differing roles, each contributing its own independence, as in the opening of Mahler's "Ninth" Symphony, the melody tossed between the violins, tremoli in the violas, and the contrbass above or equal in register to all with harmonics. Mahler's progressiveness was in pure content,he was not one to pursue "tangible innovations" but secured his tenuous position with the diatonic mode,familiar scales and harmonic surfaces. A chiaroscuro of means (schatten) the shadows he creates with reliefs of foreground and background.Tonality is not so much renewed as an unheard voice enters the stage, Mahler's voice cracks,is overstrethched, the various woodwind passages like in the "Scherzo" of his "Seventh" Symphony. The forced tone is itself an expressive innovation of his own making a premonition of the darker legubrious brooding up the road in the orchestral works of Arnold Schoenberg. In fact we find ev! ery bit of these darker pages in Mahler before the horrors which await the citizens of Eastern Europe,even up to Bosnia.Adorno's focus is always how Mahler creates meaning within familiar confines,the roads that lead to simple harmonies. He disrupts the stabilityof rhythm,of gesture that once was, the familiar in Mahler's orchestral context becomes something quite different, no longer can the romantic symphony depend on redemption. Bruckner could depend on this, for he already found his spirituality, whereas Mahler spent his life in pursuit of it . Adorno in the chapter "Novel" reveals the non-progressive side of Mahler.He needed to depend on some stability so his musical characters come and go untarnished at times, the lowlife natural trombone,to the intimate/elegant solo violin, and thecracking horn moments in Mahler. This is where we find"Stufenreichtum" the richness of texture,the musical thread running from the full orchestral (tutti) everyone's voice heard, tothe single voice the solos. This is Mahler's context from the distance "in sehr weiter entfernung" to the immediate. It is this expressive immediacy, he learned from Beethoven that gives way to developed chaos as his life wears away. The overblown vacuous "Eighth Symphony" resolved nothing for his real creativity, and the "Ninth" the ideas begin toward the irrational,Mahler is serious even in the "Rondo-Burleske" from the "Ninth",the almost improvised gesture reminded me of Charles Ives,who was writing just about the same time. Adorno's chapter "Variant-Form" we learn Mahler's technique progressed away from what an academic would consider "good" Mahler needn't be as glib as Richard Strauss,nor as consummate as Wagner. He learned music in another wayand pointed toward a profound goal. A goal in which his music simply breaks its own voice"Durchbruch" as Adorno mentions where there was no comfort in traditional moments. Adorno opens thi! s expressive vault of Mahler and we can see Mahler again. As recently as Pierre Boulez in his ongoing recordings with The Chicago Symphony we find a Mahler quite as a turning point to the 20th century. Well Boulez brings Mahler into our century whether we want him there or not. Boulez brings a sublime ugliness at times to Mahler's simplicity, the functional predictable movements of harmony creates a kind of timbral dirt. Mahler wanted this. No we are not done with his marvelous "Symphonies" we can contemplate them for some time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1860-1911    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Composers & Musicians - General    5. Criticism and interpretation    6. History & Criticism - By Composer    7. Mahler, Gustav,    8. Music Of The 20th Century    9. Music/Songbooks    10. Austria    11. Composers & musicians    12. Former Czechoslovakia    13. Music / General    14. Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)