REMEMBERING ZEMLINSKY
If you always yearned to know composers from A to Z, tune in on Alexander Zemlinsky, who spans the extremes. The long-forgotten Austrian composer Zemlinsky was finally given his due with the S.F. Symphony’s first performance of his tone poem “The Mermaid,” 116 years after its premiere. The Viennese composer had the double misfortune of losing out to Gustav Mahler: musically, standing in his instrumental shadow, and romantically, yielding up the elusive Alma, who married Gustav and left A.Z. in…
