Guess the backstory of this photo?
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Alma Mahler at to a New York Philharmonic performance of a Mahler symphony.
Life Magazine, 1960 ca.Bernstein, NYP, Carnegie Hall. It was part of the 1960 NYP Mahler Festival (they had another one in 1976). Bernstein, Mitropoulos, and Walter all conducted as part of the festival.
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"Alma, tell us:
All modern women are jealous
Which of your magical wands
Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?The first one she married was Mahler
Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav
And each time he saw her he'd holler:
"Ach, that is the fräulein I must have!"
Their marriage, however, was murdah
He'd scream to the heavens above:
"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde
Und she only wants to make love!"
