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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the weary insurance salesman, Mahler’s music was simply too loud. Though Kafka possessed acute hearing, he did not have ...