Professional pains were tempered by personal pleasures, especially for Alma, whose “circle had become so large that [her] day was filled up and organized.” Over the years she and Mahler grew increasingly comfortable in New York. The couple traveled the Long Island Railroad to Oyster Bay, where they visited with Laura Roosevelt, cousin of Teddy Roosevelt. Back in Manhattan, the Mahlers explored the city in all its splendors, dining at the home of Louis Comfort Tiffany on Madison Avenue, visiting an opium den in Chinatown, and touring the tenements on the Lower East Side. They even sampled the latest fad, participating in a séance with one Madame Palladino.What a flim this would make!
Mahler's symphonies are currently being performed in sequence in New York by the Staatskapelle Berlin and two conductors: Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.
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