The Wagner Society of Washington, DC presents Henry-Louis de la Grange on "Mahler: Disciple and Champion of Wagner" Thursday, May 11, 2000 7:45 p.m. George Washington University Funger Hall, Room 103 2201 G Street, NW Washington, DC How Wagnerian was Mahler? Henry Louis de la Grange will speak on Gustav Mahler's interesting preoccupation with Wagner and Mahler's considerable efforts to promote Wagner's operas in Vienna and beyond. He will illustrate with rare slides. De la Grange is a co-founder of the Bibliotheques Musicale Gustav Mahler in Paris, which he started in 1986 by contributing his own extensive collection of books, recordings, periodicals, and personal archives. He is an internationally renowned biographer of Mahler. The third volume of his monumental biography of the composer is "Gustav Mahler: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)." It will be published in English in May 2000 by the Oxford University Press. For more information, call the Society at (301) 907-2600, or FAX: (301) 907-8671. Come visit the web site at: http://www.wagner-dc.org/ Janice Rosen