Gustav Mahler was an artist of gigantic ambitions, and Jens Malte Fischer's biography, available in English a decade after it was first published in Germany, is on a comparable scale. At 766 pages, it ...
During the last 25 years or so, most musicians would say Leonard Bernstein, who started a Mahler binge in the 1960s and has shown no signs of letting up. But close on his heels has been Henry-Louis de ...
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World. By Norman Lebrecht. Faber; 362 pages; £17.99. To be published in America by Pantheon in October; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...
Conductor Robert Olson founded Colorado MahlerFest on a shoestring budget in 1987. The annual tribute to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler grew over the ensuing 28 years, drawing volunteer musicians ...
On Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis, by Stuart Feder. For Mahler, the customer was always wrong. He likewise squelched her youthful composing ambitions: “The role of composer falls to me—yours is that ...
In Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company,” Elaine Stritch raspily sang a toast to the trendy “ladies who lunch,” who fill their days with a “matinee, a Pinter play, perhaps a piece of Mahler’s.” ...
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