Dudamel Conducts Schubert and Berio Nov 16, 2009
In his second month as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel has enthralled audiences with his interpretations of Ludwig van Beethoven, John Adams, Gustav Mahler, Unsuk Chin, Giuseppe Verdi, Luciano Berio, and Franz Schubert. A recent performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall continued to fascinate new and sustaining patrons of the young maestro who came to see him lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program of Franz Schubert and Luciano Berio. (Suite101.com)
'Keeping Score' returns to KQED Oct 14, 2009
Symphony General Manager John Kieser said it continues to evolve as it moves to season three, which will feature multiple episodes on Gustav Mahler, timed to the centennial of his death. "Between season one and season two, we saw the power of location shooting, and of cutting back and forth between location, the full orchestra and MTT sitting at the piano," he said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dudamel Conducts Mahler's Symphony ... Oct 11, 2009
Additionally, Dudamel conducted Gustav Mahler s massive four-movement Symphony No. 1 in D major on four separate days ... Begun in January 1988, Gustav Mahler s Symphonic Poem, was finished in March of the same year. (Suite101.com)
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert Makes Its Television Debut on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances Series in October Oct 2, 2009
On the program for his inaugural concert are Gustav Mahlers Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Titan) and the world premiere of that latest work by Pulitzer Prize-winning music composer John Adams, City Noir ... News of Gustavo Dudamels talent first spread worldwide after his triumph at the inaugural Bamberger Symphoniker Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in May 2004. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
WCFSO kicks off 80th anniversary season with innovative programming Sep 21, 2009
Weinberger's passion for Gustav Mahler will be on display Nov. 14, as the symphony presents "Not Your Mother's Mahler." The concert showcases Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp in an educationally engaging, participatory way. "We've done the first, second and fourth Mahler symphonies and it seemed logical for us to move on to the fifth. It's the biggest challenge of the year and extremely virtuosic music. Mahler used the orchestra quite unlike any other composer and was able to portray a whole... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Keating taught culture was something to celebrate Sep 15, 2009
Gustav Mahler, one of former prime minister Paul Keating's favourite composers. Back in 1995, when culture and politics were as one, the playwright Louis Nowra said this: "You always need those people who love Mahler. Anybody who listens to Mahler at 1 o'clock in the morning in the Lodge is obviously a cross between a fruitcake and a wonderful politician."It's difficult to imagine, 14 years on, the listening habits of Paul Keating's successors in the wee small hours: Gustav Mahler would be far... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
• Season 31 Sep 10, 2009
Banghart was given the job of composer partly for his quick grasp of the assignment, which Rotch said he phrased this way: "So it sounds like what you want me to do is sort of Gustav Mahler meets Ralph Stanley down at Tim Burton's place, is that right?" Rotch knew he'd found his man. This production runs from April 23-May 30. (Juneau Empire)
* [THE WEEKENDER] Cloud Gate trilogy brings Chinese characters to life Sep 7, 2009
Set to the music of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, Lament is a beautiful, elegant work that is moving, but not too somber, filled with lots of lovely lifts and a wonderful duet for Sheu and Li. As with their duet in the first piece, Li proved he could more than hold his own with Sheu. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Labor Day Full of Plays in Lenox Sep 4, 2009
" Tickets for festival productions are a $16 suggested donation per show, or a $60 suggested donation for a Festival Pass, which gives admittance to all seven performances. For information call the box office at 413-637-3353 or visit the newly redesigned Web site at www.shakespeare.org. In addition to "Goat" and the puppet show, offerings include "Mengelburg and Mahler," a one-man show portraying critical moments in the life of Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg, an early champion and friend of... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
At 80, clarinetist Stanley Drucker calls it quits Aug 7, 2009
of Gustav Mahler and a link to the musical legacy of late 19th-century Europe. Drucker remembers clearly his first rehearsal with the orchestra: It was in Carnegie Hall, and Dmitri Mitropoulos - who would soon succeed Walter as music director - was conducting Strauss s Also Sprach Zarathustra. (Boston Globe)
Recent highlights from the Ideas blog Jul 26, 2009
SATURATED WITH lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, fatal oompahs of sad waltzes, writes the music professor David Schiff, in The Nation, the songs and symphonies of Gustav Mahler prophetically mourn the victims of twentieth-century catastrophes the composer died too soon to witness, or perhaps even imagine. How can Schiff make such a bold, seemingly anachronistic claim. (Boston Globe)
Mozart and Mahlerian angst at Tanglewood Jul 20, 2009
LENOX - There is a famous story about the conductor Bruno Walter paying a visit to Gustav Mahler at his lakeside hut during a period when the great composer was at work on his Third Symphony. Walter arrived and was taking in the view of the awe-inspiring mountains when the composer quipped that his friend didn t really have to bother looking. (Boston Globe)
George Millman, 83; longtime civil engineer who served on Framingham Town Meeting Jun 24, 2009
He was the kind of guy who understood the beauty of [composer and conductor] Gustav Mahler and the New England Patriots, his son said. Mr. Millman was a founding member of Temple Beth Am in Framingham, where he served on the original building committee. (Boston Globe)
Endless Mahler Jun 1, 2009
Gustav Mahler, with his daughter Anna, in Toblach, Austria, 1909 ... In a hundred years, there will be great folk festivals devoted to my symphonies, in gigantic halls seating twenty to thirty thousand people, Gustav Mahler once told the soprano Lilli Lehmann. (New Yorker)
Look ahead at symphony's next season May 11, 2009
Then comes the season finale, and quite an ending it is: On May 8 and 9, the orchestra will perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Giuseppe Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and the Ruckert Lieder of Gustav Mahler the latter performed with guest baritone Corey McKern. If you have bookends to the Romantic era, it's Beethoven and Mahler, said Butorac. (Missoulian, MT)
NMSO lays off staff, reduces salaries Apr 10, 2009
It made budget cuts and concert program changes in December to slice $200,000 from its budget, including a reduction in the number of Classic Series programs from 11 to 10 and replacing a planned Gustav Mahler piece (which would have required hiring additional musicians) with Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Despite the economy, ticket sales are actually up six to seven percent over last year, Meyer added. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
A Nervous Splendor Mar 30, 2009
Hans was a prodigy whose extraordinary musical perception became evident at the age of four; Gustav Mahler s teacher, Julius Epstein, called him a genius. But Karl insisted that he follow a career in industry or finance. (New Yorker)
