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...devil is dancing with me! Madness, take me and destroy me!" So, in anguished scrawls, wrote Composer Gustav Mahler in the margins of his Tenth Symphony. Slowly dying of a streptococcus infection, he was torn between periods of black despair and intimations of immortality - all of which he attempted to pour into the five-movement Tenth, which was to be the last great testament of his life. But in 1911, before he could complete it, the disease killed...
...premiere of Mahler's Tenth, or rather, "a performing version of a sketch," as Cooke protectively calls it, was presented this month in Philadelphia, followed by a second performance last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
...when he heard the drums of a funeral procession passing his Manhattan apartment, intrudes repeatedly, driving back the forces of light. Then, unfurling slowly, the divergent strands of the opening themes are resolved in a finale of radiant transfiguration, ending as serenely as oncoming sleep - or death. "The Tenth" says Cooke, "holds the secret of Mahler's final settling of his account with life and fate...
...leader of the "Dancing De Marcos," who whirled his magnificently gowned partners around vaudeville and supper-club stages of the U.S. and Europe, thrilling audiences with his gliding grace and superbly timed leaps, in 1957 retired to Florida with Sally De Marco, his third wife and tenth partner; following a stroke; in West Palm Beach...
...aluminum industry is only a sacrificial symbol of Lyndon Johnson's wider war on inflation, which he feels he must wage to keep the economy healthy and to restore the balance of payments. The aluminum industry-one twenty-third the size of construction and one-tenth the size of automaking-is unlikely to cause an inflationary spiral by itself. Even some Government economists concede that the industry has as good a case as any for higher prices: it is earning a mere 4.9% on its investment, is running at 100% of its 2,700,000-ton capacity. Its price...