Gustav Mahler News
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
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- classical music, symphony, chamber music
- Austrian Empire, Cisleithania, Austria
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South Florida Classical Review
2024-03-09 16:08:02
A West Palm Beach audience on Friday night experienced the towering […]
All the conducting master class
2024-03-09 15:59:46
20 – 24 May, 2024 CSO International Conducting Masterclass & Competitionwith Maestro Michalis Economou Repertoire:W. A. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 and Don Giovanni OvertureL. v. Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 and Coriolan OvertureG. Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no. 5 Tuition Fees:Active participants: €1200Passive participants: Free (selected Cypriot conductors only)Applications deadline: 8 April 2024 Only 10 conductors […]
2024-03-05 16:26:31
Conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, the visiting orchestra’s programmes of Bruckner, Mahler and Berg made for unforgettable listening
2024-03-04 10:05:00
There is no right reaction to great music
[…] this very formality of structure imposed by sonata form, formality of etiquette conventions and of emotional cues, that may be the insurmountable obstacle to a new younger rewired classical audience. Whatever we think of it, electronic dance music is the music of choice of the great majority of young people, an improvised genre that lacks both notation and fixed emotional cues. It is not insignificant that the prescient Matangi Quartet have performed with a dance music DJ. By contrast a Mahler symphony, widely seen as the silver bullet for the regeneration of classical music, is formally notated with clear emotional cues, as in the Rondo finale of the Fifth Symphony. This codifying of emotional reaction has reached its nadir in the cringe-inducing explanations of the 'meaning' of masterworks by the presenters on the' new improved' BBC Radio 3, and in dribbles of embarrassing applause between symphony movements. After its publication in 1966 John Fowles' novel The […]
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