Word: mahlers
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...seems incredible to you that, a year from now, there could an Xbox 360 in your living room--or a PlayStation3 or a Nintendo whatever-they're-calling-it--and that you could be using it to videoconference with your brand-new gamer buddies while grooving on a Mahler symphony, think of all those iPod owners who, five years ago, didn't know what an MP3 was. Jaded as we are, the future can still surprise us. It might just be both nerdier--and cooler--than anybody expected...
...meantime, Australia has reclaimed its "voodoo child." At the beginning of her three-year residency with the Sydney Symphony, the composer this week premieres her latest work for the orchestra. Immer Fliessender (Ever Flowing) is written as an eight-minute prelude to Mahler's Ninth. In architectural terms, that's a little like adding a pyramid to the Louvre. For the piece, Lim extrapolates an Arabic inflection she detects in Mahler's expansive final symphony - "it's like the colors of that fabulous world," she says, "but a different twist - looking at it sideways." For her next SSO work...
...Harvard answered back with two goals of its own to once again tie up the score at 4-4. Scholl scored his second goal of the game off a feed from sophomore midfielder Brian Mahler. Junior midfielder Tom Boylan added an unassisted goal to once again bring the Crimson close...
Perhaps not. But Paul Robinson, a professor of intellectual history at Stanford, makes an enthusiastic effort, like one of those tycoons who suddenly indulge a suppressed yearning to step onstage and conduct Mahler or sing Puccini. Though some clinkers are almost inevitable, an onlooker can hardly help admiring the combination of chutzpah, high spirits and a willingness to gamble...
Harvard made one final push to get back into the game immediately after the half, with goals by Widbin and sophomore midfielder Brian Mahler that cut the deficit to five, but the Big Red scored the next three goals to end the Crimson’s upset...