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| | Mississippi Public Broadcasting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Guest host William Fulton introduces two truly beautiful and fascinating operatic works from early in the 20th-Century, composed by Alexander Zemlinsky, a colleague and contemporary of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. |
 | | Another fine European composer who was displaced by the tragedies of war, Zemlinsky died, a poor and unhappy man, in the US in 1942. |
 | | His admiration for his contemporaries, particularly Mahler, led him to deprecate his own music, including the tone poem "The Mermaid," which, shoved by its author into a drawer following its successful premiere in 1905, remained unheard again for 79 years. |
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