Word: mahlers
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...help steal some of that thunder, the former advertising man is starting cultural proceedings a month early, and making the program as loud and large-scale as possible. If Mahler's choral Symphony No. 8 for a thousand voices at the SuperDome on Aug. 19 doesn't get attention, nothing will. "It will celebrate both things," says Schofield. "The merger of sport...
...contemporary of Mahler's saw him as "a great terrorist genius who, striving for unattainable goals, meets the fate of Icarus." That's a shrewd appraisal of the passionate composer and conductor during his embattled last years as head of the Vienna Opera--when his visionary compositions and inspired performances were commonly met by savage criticism, often fueled by anti-Semitism. In this penultimate volume of his monumental biography, La Grange locates Mahler at the heart of turn-of-the-century Vienna's flourishing cultural milieu, which, together with Mahler's relationships with many of its major figures, he vividly...
...iron man of Italian opera is dipping a toe into the German repertoire, and he proves surprisingly comfortable with Gustav Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Domingo isn't quite high-strung enough for Mahler's angst-ridden emotional world, but he makes an impassioned impression all the same, and though he no longer has the brilliance and heft needed to sail effortlessly above the gigantic orchestra, who does? Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic provide solid support. A+ for effort...
...have been made out. That is a little secret of our age, perhaps of yours as well. Not all the people, all the time, but there is a tenderness, a loveliness that outlives our cruelty and stupidity. One can see it in an audience lost in a passage of Mahler's, or in a sudden, gaudy display of sunlight on a field. All the fear and self-absorption are wiped away, and in our blameless, dumb-struck faces lies the better story of the race. This too is who we are. This is who you are, whoever...