Word: mahlers
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...autocratic Herbert von Karajan, but with his boyish enthusiasm and unruly curls Rattle cuts a different sort of figure. A native of Liverpool who grew up when the city's four other famous mop tops were shaping tastes in music, he found his calling at a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony. "I was around 11 or 12, and all I remember is the feeling that I wanted to be in the center of this," he says. "It never occurred to me that it would happen as fast as it did." At 25, he became principal conductor of the City...
...Rattle promises that his iconoclasm will flavor the orchestra. His debut program last weekend featured a characteristically diverse selection: Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Asyla, a work by 29-year-old British composer Thomas Adès that Rattle commissioned while in Birmingham...
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, written in 1909, is ultimately about farewell, as the work makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that...
...phone, and you hear a regular old dial tone, and anyone calling you will hear the usual ringing noise. The sound quality is crisp and clear. I won't say it's perfect--there's a slightly hollow, tinny quality--but unless you're planning to listen to Mahler's Fifth over the phone, it's no big deal. And there are other perks besides the price. At Vonage's website you can access a list of your last 10 calls, both incoming and outgoing. You can set your phone to forward calls to any other number...
...even with all our differences, music still affects us in the same way. We need it to survive. In the kitchen, it keeps us sane, a rhythm in the dishroom. The students need it to fulfill their creative desires; Mahler is an essential part of their diet. Tanglewood has been infiltrated by classic rock lovers, but it’s all in the name of loving music...