Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's 2025-26 season will have a new work about Coretta Scott King, Rachmaninoff piano ...
Or were these all premonitions? The "hammer-blows of fate" from the 6th Symphony seemed to be meant for Mahler himself when, in the summer of 1907, his much-loved daughter died of diptheria during ...
From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...
The Utah Symphony prepares for back-to-back Mahler performances under the baton of Music Director Emeritus Thierry Fischer ...
"The Billy Joel Songbook" will see crooner Tony DeSare channel the Piano Man in a symphonic revue of Joel's biggest hits, while Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony is billed as "an ...
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Kafka and Mahler: A missed harmony
For the weary insurance salesman, Mahler’s music was simply too loud. Though Kafka possessed acute hearing, he did not have ...
On his website, conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas announced he would "wind down my public appearances" over the ...
Film series Audiences can watch the movie while the symphony performs the soundtrack live. "Home Alone" in Concert (Nov. 15-16) "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in Concert (Jan. 30-Feb. 1 ...