gustavmahlerboard.com

General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: mike bosworth on December 21, 2007, 04:31:07 PM

Title: Mahler in America--100 years ago today
Post by: mike bosworth on December 21, 2007, 04:31:07 PM

Gustav Mahler arrived in New York City, via Ellis Island, for the first time on 21 December 1907.

Mike Bosworth

Title: Re: Mahler in America--100 years ago today
Post by: James Meckley on December 28, 2007, 12:19:07 AM

I was in NYC last week to commemorate this grand event. I went by Avery Fischer Hall to see the Rodin head of Mahler in the lobby, and spent a very chilly 20 minutes in Central Park just across from the site of the Hotel Majestic (razed around 1920 - replaced by the Majestic Apartments) where Mahler lived during his first season and where he heard the fireman's funeral which inspired the bass drum in the tenth symphony. The Majestic is just across 72nd street from the Dakota, and I couldn't help but notice that, while I was paying my solitary respects to Gustav Mahler, at least a dozen tourists stopped by the Dakota to pay their respects to John Lenon.

James Meckley