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This book documents composer/conductor Gustav Mahler's tours with the New York Philharmonic during the 1909 and 1910 seasons. It details the conditions surrounding touring, the preparations for the tours, the outcome of each concert, and the perceptions of audiences beyond New York City, as well as a history of touring and orchestral development at the turn of the twentieth century.

Ever since the publication of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', in which the protagonist desires to "pour a torrent of light into our dark world" by assuming the role of creator, writers have been fascinated with the motif of the scientist as God - that is, of the scientist who seeks to rival God by engaging in such projects as creating life, resurrecting the dead, and freeing humans from sin. The present study explores the scientist-as-God motif...