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Circumstances permitting, concerts were given at the rate of one per week, with each programme consisting entirely of works from the period "Mahler to the present". The range of music included was very wide, the "allowable" composers not being confined to the
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Viennese public (who would often attend concerts with the express intention of causing disruption, whistling derisively at modern works by
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