/tags/gustav-mahler Gustav Mahler en-US Copyright Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:30:40 GMT /classical-101/2020-03-03/osu-music-professor-arved-ashbys-new-book-on-mahler “Mahler is very extravagant. Mahler is in your face. Mahler is really too much!”–Arved AshbyToo much of a good thing is wonderful. Just ask Arved Ashby,… Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:30:40 GMT /classical-101/2020-03-03/osu-music-professor-arved-ashbys-new-book-on-mahler Christopher Purdy /classical-101/2017-05-18/mahlers-third-symphony-a-journey-into-life-love-and-nature Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler is one of the longest symphonies in the standard repertoire. There may be a few longer ones out there, but this "hymn to… Thu, 18 May 2017 15:32:56 GMT /classical-101/2017-05-18/mahlers-third-symphony-a-journey-into-life-love-and-nature /classical-101/2017-04-21/going-green-vegetarianism-and-classical-music April 22 is Earth Day and a time when I'm more inclined to reflect on how interconnected the natural world and all life really is. I'm not referring… Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:22:42 GMT /classical-101/2017-04-21/going-green-vegetarianism-and-classical-music /classical-101/2016-11-12/hammered-pounding-out-the-excess-in-mahlers-sixth-symphony At a time when we have become immune to shock and where hyperbole rules, Marin Alsop argues that Mahler's Sixth Symphony provides the perfect soundtrack. Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:40:00 GMT /classical-101/2016-11-12/hammered-pounding-out-the-excess-in-mahlers-sixth-symphony Marin Alsop /classical-101/2016-01-14/a-titan-of-a-symphony-from-gustav-mahler When Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completed his First Symphony in 1888, he called it "Titan," thinking of it as a large five-movement… Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:30:00 GMT /classical-101/2016-01-14/a-titan-of-a-symphony-from-gustav-mahler /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2016-01-07/the-tao-of-mahler-my-encounters-with-pierre-boulez It isn’t every day that one has a chance to work with a giant. Learning of the death Tuesday of Pierre Boulez brought back memories of the living legend… Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:00:00 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2016-01-07/the-tao-of-mahler-my-encounters-with-pierre-boulez Jennifer Hambrick /classical-101/2015-11-19/bach-by-mahler-and-brahms-by-riccardo-chailly On November 10, 1909 in New York City, Gustav Mahler sat down at a harpsichord and led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of his own arrangement… Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:28:17 GMT /classical-101/2015-11-19/bach-by-mahler-and-brahms-by-riccardo-chailly /classical-101/2011-01-11/mahler-with-a-wrinkle-introducing-the-cardboard-orchestra I tend to think of certain orchestras as "Mahler orchestras." The New York Philharmonic is one such orchestra because Gustav Mahler himself was its music… Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:06:41 GMT /classical-101/2011-01-11/mahler-with-a-wrinkle-introducing-the-cardboard-orchestra admin /classical-101/2010-09-08/wagnerians-and-vegetarians-and-the-rest-of-us I was recently reading "The Face on Your Plate" by Jeffrey Mousaieff Masson, who has written eloquently about the emotional lives of animals in other… Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:01:36 GMT /classical-101/2010-09-08/wagnerians-and-vegetarians-and-the-rest-of-us /classical-101/2010-07-12/mahler-on-my-mind If you Listen to Symphony at 7 on weekday evenings on �ǿ����޴�ý-89.7, you know there's a lot of Gustav Mahler going on. This past week (July, 7) marked the… Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:32:46 GMT /classical-101/2010-07-12/mahler-on-my-mind admin