Gustav Mahler News

Twenty minutes into the Adagio of his Tenth Symphony, Mahler puts down two horrible, threatening nine-tone chords that remind of the - gate posts' with which Beethoven's Eroica opens.

The Day asked Toshiyuki "Toshi" Shimada, music director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, for a list of what he listened to in 2009.

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.9 from Monday, with a discussion of more "Mahler 9" recordings I particularly cherish.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Thursday 03rd of December 2009

This continues Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.5 from Thursday, with a discussion of more "Mahler 6" recordings I particularly cherish.

The Sixth Symphony is often mentioned to be Mahler's most classical, invariably followed by the qualification: "If only in structure". It's an important qualification, because although cast in the sonata-form of the classical symphony , the symphony has nothing else in common with the classical predecessors.

"I wouldn't suggest the racetrack as the incubator and inspirer of poetry. I just say it might work for me - sometimes.

Sunday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Ticket info: $15 for adults, $7.50 for students and seniors; Children free.

I've always found the Fourth Symphony of Mahler to have a similar - if not quite as pronounced - problem as Beethoven's Fourth: its two neighbors are too famous and too overbearing.

The Third Symphony, Mahler's longest, has sublime moments and plenty of them, but it can be difficult to find your way to - and around - it: Its quilt of music is complicated and never just straight forward and clear-cut. It has two large outer movements around four smaller movements - the first movement alone takes over half an hour.

Today begins the "International" of the three Gustav Mahler Symphony Cycles that Classical WETA plays as part of Mahler Month.

Read my review today on the Washington Post Web site: Charles T. Downey, BSO goes pretty with cozy standards Washington Post , November 8, 2009 Susanna Phillips, soprano If anything, the program offered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Friday night at Meyerhoff Hall was too pretty, too easy on the ears.

The "cover" photograph for the DG Concerts release of the performance of Mahler's first symphony by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel Having been interested enough in Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write about both its broadcast on Public Television and the Deutsche ...

HereA is the second part of an introduction and discussion of all Mahler symphonies which will take place all through November, Classical WETA's Mahler-Month. The first part was published separately, earlier this year, and can be read here .

Somber and very dark beauty is exuded by the "Four Songs of Prayer and Repentance on words from the Bible" that Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek composed in 1913.

After losing part of my hearing watching the LovEvolution parade on Saturday afternoon, with its floats adorned with banks of porno sized speakers, I risked the safety of my eardrums again at Davies Hall Saturday night.

One hundred years ago, Gustav Mahler spent the summer of 1909 writing, with astonishing speed, his ninth symphony, a work that lasts almost 90 minutes.

Ronald Harwood is one of the most accomplished and critically celebrated of all contemporary dramatists.

Thomas Hampson If there is one message to take away from this week's Gustav Mahler: Origins and Legacies concerts by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, it is that Mahler was of man with a prodigious store of memories.

If Les Paul had invented the solid body electric guitar in 1900s instead of the 1950s, would Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler have become rock stars? Hard to say.