Like Baron von Münchhausen but not on his hair , Mahler is pulling himself out of the morass , a driving to madness grief . Up to the light , where harmony gently rules . Redemption .
As a guestdirector at the Metropolitan Orchestra in New York, first on 1 january 1908 , he gets to know the more easy-going American way of life and it's influence on Mahler is unmistakable : 'Be disobedient ! ' , he shouts at his daughter Anna , wenn she fears to indulge freely like a child .
Also :
Alma Mahler-Werfel : Mein Leben. Fischer, Frankfurt, 1981. ISBN 3 596 20545 X